The best thing I have ever seen a council do

[Comando96]

The local councils in London instead of wasting money on useless projects[footnote]http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/4...Mayor_Boris_Johnson_slams_council_newspapers/ - Wasteful but understandable[/footnote][footnote]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oying-actors-play-drunks-catch-bar-staff.html - Bastards, you never need to pay people to pretend to be drunk[/footnote] Lewisham council have had an amazing mind stroke, how about instead of just hoping someone spots damage or graffiti... how about we create an app for phones.

This council has effectively made itself available to everyone in the local area with a phone with a camera and internet connection. All a person must do is take a photograph of the damage, give a self opinion of classification of damage (ie. broken windows, pot holes in the road), and their location in London and the image is sent to the council's appropriate department. This department then take action on their regular patrol around their authority.

This is such an inventive way to use prevailing modern technology and has been so successful that it is a service that has been extended to all of London.

Boris Johnson[footnote]

Spoiler

Whats up peasants! Tally Ho!

[/footnote] the Mayor of London[footnote](Somehow he actually got in to office XD Type "Boris Johnson Ping Pong Speech " into youtube)[/footnote] believes this will be a great aid to the Olympic games. So when the transport system is full to capacity and the underfunded games progressively turning out to be a bad idea we shouldn't of just bid for so they French wouldn't get it... but at least the councils will know where all the litter is

Please say if anyone else knows of a app like this one and where it is in use as I think this is a genius idea. What shocked me most is that this app is apparently 5 years old.

 

[hey_iknowyou]

Yup, this is ringing many bells. Myself and a few of my classmates during college basically created this concept (well, a very similar concept anyway) for an assignment and were planning on developing it fully should we get the required funding......then we discovered it already existed. Citysourced is the name of it and I am unsure of where it is currently in operation, all I remember was that San Jose was one of, if not the first city to try it out and to my knowledge it was a great success.

 

[hey_iknowyou]

Here is a link to some of the details from San Jose if you are interested.

http://www.sanjose.org/story/apps-pave-way-city-services

 

[Dr_Pie]

I read about this earlier. I think it's a pretty good idea.

And in regards to Boris getting office, I think he's done a pretty good job so far. He's not someone I would have voted in initially, but since he's become mayor, he hasn't actually been bad at his job.

 

[redisforever]

You should see the shit that happens with taxpayer money in Canada. Or at least in the town I used to live in. They government just build a bunch of shit in the middle of the roads, that made a dangerous place to drive worse.