[liberationtech] NEW SITE: SeeClickFix

[Morgen Peers]

FYI the Ushahidi team is in Miami right now

On 2010-04-17, at 17:28, Ashni Mohnot <ashni.mohnot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's one for crowdsourcing crisis information that might be of  
> interest to people on this list: http://www.ushahidi.com/
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Yishay Mor <yishaym at gmail.com> wrote:
> www.fixmystreet.com/ have been doing it for years..
> ___________________________
>  Yishay Mor, London Knowledge Lab
>   http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/mor.html
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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 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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