[liberationtech] NEW SITE: SeeClickFix

[Yishay Mor]

www.fixmystreet.com/ have been doing it for years..
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On 13 April 2010 14:53, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:

> *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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