Open Government strikes again! The City of Guelph in the Province of Ontario, Canada, is the latest in a steady series of Local Governments announcing a dedicated initiative to seek closer connections to the Public by being more transparent, interactive and focused on better Customer Service. However, not every Local or Regional Government Organization has a spare $100K "strategic reserve" for
Category: Local GovernmentGeocode to TreeOcode Niagara – Mobile technology winner
Introducing treeOcode Niagara I'm communicating on behalf of the Geospatial Niagara Group to introduce treeOcode Niagara. We're organizing a "crowd-sourcing" program to build an inventory of all the trees across the Niagara Region, with a strong emphasis on sustainability. The project is named “TreeOcode-Niagara”. We are using smartphone-based technology to capture essential tree attributes
Sacramento, Calif.’s 311 App Helps Create Well-Managed City
We thought you might appreciate this piece from Sacramento. It's both a cautionary tale, and one of positive eventual outcomes. Cautionary, because the City started out by installing a 311 system without considering how to handle the calls efficiently once they arrived, thus causing a negative backlash from drowned Public expectations. Positive, in that by offering an App (at $100K
