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Safety & Disaster

SeeClickFix: report non-emergency local problems and collaborate to solve them

Challenges Entered: 

SeeClickFix is a free mobile phone and web tool that allows citizens to report and document non-emergency issues to communicate them to those accountable for the public space. Issues that are reported are recorded on a map on the web for everyone to see and interact with. Anyone can receive email alerts on the issues based on a filter by geographical area and keyword.

Take a government run 3-1-1 system, put it on the web and democratize it. Put the issues on the map and allow the community to manage it like Wikipedia. Now you have a sense of what SeeClickFix can do.

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SeeClickFix: report non-emergency local problems and collaborate to solve them

Challenges Entered: 
SeeClickFix is a free mobile phone and web tool that allows citizens to report and document non-emergency issues to communicate them to those accountable for the public space. Issues that are reported through the website are recorded on a map for everyone to see and interact with. Anyone can receive email alerts on the issues based on a filter by geographical area and keyword.

Lobby Congress! Vote on legislation, send your vote to your reps, track your votes, and build grass roots support for issues

Challenges Entered: 
You'll get access to all the legislation, voting records, analytic tools, district maps, charts and graphs. You'll get to connect with other members, discuss issues, and rally for support.

Location

San Francisco, CA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
San Francisco, CA

Climate Adaptation 2.0

Challenges Entered: 
Community mapping is a method used to assist communities to self-identify key resources and areas of concern. We would work with target communities using handheld GPS units to collect data points for each feature of the community-generated map. Georeferenced photos would be taken to provide a visual baseline. Features identified as significant by communities are often missing from “conventional” maps. They may include natural resources that are economically important, culturally important, or linked to other amenities, such as recreational sites or places of shelter.Data from community mapping will be incorporated into a base map, using an open source mapping tool or API, complete with annotated data points. Georeferenced photos would also be added. Additional data layers to be added include available remote sensing imagery, data layers derived from downscaled global climate models, and available GIS layers showing land use/land cover, infrastructure, hydrological features, physical features, etc. Combining these data will enable the community to “find itself” in the “official” geography.

Location

Port of Spain (regional, eastern Caribbean)
Trinidad and Tobago
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Port of Spain (regional, eastern Caribbean)

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