New Government Reporting Site Gets Mixed Marks
There's a somewhat new service out there that allows anyone to report and track non-emergency issues anywhere in the world via the internet. The website 'SeeClickFix' claims it empowers citizens, community groups, media organizations and governments to take care of and improve their neighborhoods.
Well one local blogger tried it- with some interesting results.
Here's his story.And here's his follow up post after he checked into the situation a little more closely.
If you want to give
SeeClickFix a try yourself, click here. Let me know if you submit something and what kind of response you get.
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
2 comments:
I'm the blogger you reference in your post. I've been out of town which prevented me from responding when this was posted. SeeClickFix is not a government site. It's a crowd sourcing site where people can report and monitor problems. It's up to the local government to decide if and how they would participate. You can read more about the site at http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/04/crowdsourcing-the-dpw.html.
When I said 'New Government Reporting Site Gets Mixed Marks' I meant a site where you can report government issues, not that its a site run by the government. Sorry, I should have used a better headline.
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