[Summit] maybe we could try this, except for those who do not carry a phone.

[Greg Gerritt]

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* Group: Resilient Futures: Conditions Watch
* Discussion: THREAD: Technology Futures - What are the new ONLINE
technologies and how may they shape our future?
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Bump and mend: The apps helping fix city streets

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Smartphones are well-established social hubs, loaded with software used to
send and receive photographs, appointments, news and invites.

Corporations and large organisations have been there from the start,
thrilled at finding new ways to push and promote products and services.

In the US, cities and states have realised that a combination of
neighbourhood goodwill, a well-thought-out app and an army of smartphones
can revolutionise the way they do the peoples' business.

It is called urban crowd sourcing: allowing the public to report problems on
the spot from a mobile device and then get real time feedback as they get
resolved.

Millions of people own phones with excellent GPS capabilities,
accelerometers and high resolution camera lenses.

Filing reports from an app is almost a pleasure, compared with writing or
phoning in.

Potholes, abandoned vehicles and graffiti are all favourites.

And it is claimed that people who download government apps generally use
them more than just once, perhaps seeing themselves as protectors of their
community, rather than serial complainers.
Posted by Andrew Hynson


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