<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 550px; border-top-width: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 153, 204); font: normal normal normal 12px/normal arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; "><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top: 5px; "><h1 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font: normal normal bold 21px/normal arial; ">LinkedIn <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: bold; ">Groups</span></h1></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><ul style="list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><li><strong>Group:</strong> Resilient Futures: Conditions Watch</li><li><strong>Discussion:</strong> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/e/wokscn-h3dkxh2j-2l/vaq/63381924/118033/84185544/view_disc/?hs=false&tok=0EHoBYJhb9Glg1">THREAD: Technology Futures - What are the new ONLINE technologies and how may they shape our future?</a></li></ul><p><span class="text">Bump and mend: The apps helping fix city streets<br><br></span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/e/wokscn-h3dkxh2j-2l/plh/http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fnews%2Fbusiness-18367213/1EFh/?hs=false&tok=16oY7j1sH9Glg1" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18367213</a> <span class="text"><br><br>Smartphones are well-established social hubs, loaded with software used to send and receive photographs, appointments, news and invites.<br><br>Corporations and large organisations have been there from the start, thrilled at finding new ways to push and promote products and services.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Millions of people own phones with excellent GPS capabilities, accelerometers and high resolution camera lenses.<br><br>Filing reports from an app is almost a pleasure, compared with writing or phoning in.<br><br>Potholes, abandoned vehicles and graffiti are all favourites.<br><br>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.</span> <br><span style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display: block; padding-top: 7px; ">Posted by Andrew Hynson</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></body></html>