[liberationtech] NEW SITE: SeeClickFix

[Yosem Companys]

*Usually, Gov 2.0 deals mainly with outward transparency of government to
the citizens. But SeeClickFix is trying to drive data in the other
direction, letting citizens report and track neighborhood
problems<http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/04/crowdsourcing-the-dpw.html>
as
mundane as potholes, and as serious as drug dealers. In a recent interview,
co-founder Jeff Blasius talked about how cities such as New Haven and Tucson
are using SeeClickFix to involve their citizens in identifying and fixing
problems with city infrastructure. 'We have thousands of potholes fixed
across the country, thousands of pieces of graffiti repaired, streetlights
turned on, catch basins cleared, all of that basic, broken-windows kind of
stuff. We've seen neighborhood groups form based around issues reported on
the site. We've seen people get new streetlights for their neighborhood,
pedestrian improvements in many different cities, and all-terrain vehicles
taken off of city streets. There was also one case of an arrest. The New
Haven Police Department attributed initial reports on SeeClickFix to a sting
operation that led to an arrest of two drug dealers selling heroin in front
of a grammar school.'**
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/12/1944254/Crowdsourcing-the-Department-of-Public-Works
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