That assumes I know who’s responsible in my city for deciding how which hole will get fixed at which moment and that they have valid internal processes to integrate the information into their workflow.
It would be ideal if all the information about city maintenance would go through some Open Street Map based system.
See an issue that needs fixing? Load your local city app and make a photo which directly gives the information to the bureaucrat that’s responsible for the issue.
If you stand next to a new construction site and you are interest in what’s going on, simply getting the information via a smart phone would be convenient.
Yes you could go to the local building administration government building and read the paper documents about what’s supposed to be build but that’s a complex process.
If you want to engage people political into their local community, than it’s useful to make the information about who decides how long a given traffic light shows “green” freely available.
Take an issue like guerrilla gardening. A citizens who wants to make his local community more beautiful plants a few plants that benefit his community. Even if his neighbors support his project, the most local governments are likely to be opposed to plants being planted that aren’t in their city planning.
Creating political structures that solve the communication hurdles will require to write code and a lot of smart thinking about how the structures of making political decisions should look like.
Why should the government pay to manage a local park. Why not simply declare everyone who lives within 2 miles of the park as eligible to vote in liquid democracy fashion about how the park should look like and see whether there are citizens you actually have fun maintaining the park as a hobby?
Telephones just aren’t good enough technology to manage the kind of information flow that you need for such political processes. Governments want strong neighborhoods were citizens engage but they are not smart enough to produce the necessary systems themselves.
You need smart tech people who come and say: “If you give me a million I can give you a cool way to engage your citizens into having an effect on their neighborhood. The project will seem really cool and modern and visible to voters.”
You could even do it as open source, because governments need tech people who implement and integrate the project.
That a much better way to make an impact than on how government works than by become a career bureaucrat because there an enormous power in writing code.
That assumes I know who’s responsible in my city for deciding how which hole will get fixed at which moment and that they have valid internal processes to integrate the information into their workflow.
It would be ideal if all the information about city maintenance would go through some Open Street Map based system. See an issue that needs fixing? Load your local city app and make a photo which directly gives the information to the bureaucrat that’s responsible for the issue.
If you stand next to a new construction site and you are interest in what’s going on, simply getting the information via a smart phone would be convenient.
Yes you could go to the local building administration government building and read the paper documents about what’s supposed to be build but that’s a complex process.
If you want to engage people political into their local community, than it’s useful to make the information about who decides how long a given traffic light shows “green” freely available.
Take an issue like guerrilla gardening. A citizens who wants to make his local community more beautiful plants a few plants that benefit his community. Even if his neighbors support his project, the most local governments are likely to be opposed to plants being planted that aren’t in their city planning.
Creating political structures that solve the communication hurdles will require to write code and a lot of smart thinking about how the structures of making political decisions should look like.
Why should the government pay to manage a local park. Why not simply declare everyone who lives within 2 miles of the park as eligible to vote in liquid democracy fashion about how the park should look like and see whether there are citizens you actually have fun maintaining the park as a hobby?
Telephones just aren’t good enough technology to manage the kind of information flow that you need for such political processes. Governments want strong neighborhoods were citizens engage but they are not smart enough to produce the necessary systems themselves.
You need smart tech people who come and say: “If you give me a million I can give you a cool way to engage your citizens into having an effect on their neighborhood. The project will seem really cool and modern and visible to voters.”
You could even do it as open source, because governments need tech people who implement and integrate the project.
That a much better way to make an impact than on how government works than by become a career bureaucrat because there an enormous power in writing code.