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Group Members
Team name - The Hedonists
Abedin Md Anowarul
Adekola Adebayo
Rajeshwari Chatterjee
Sumeet Thombre
Ideas
TheCitizenApp - Good governance through citizens' participation.
Netizens can report the safety and facility issues of their area along with an optional review for that area through TheCitizenApp, both in web and mobile platform. This application is more focused for the developing countries or regions where civil services(amenities) and security cannot be ensured due to inadequate resources, bureaucracy and corruption. An immediate option for reporting safety threats and common facility (electricity, water etc.) problems in the locality is available in TheCitizenApp.
People can, in real time, report incidents of crime, noise, traffic violations, hostility etc. These reports from the netizens will be open for all, that means our application will work as an Open Data source for individuals or organizations (including government). Thus the police stations, municipal offices, fire departments, other government offices, NGOs, international organizations etc will have access to these reports. It helps to increase the level of good governance. As an example, we can mention some reporting of violence in an area. As data and reports of violence in that area is available to everyone, there will be increased pressure on police stations of that area to do more patrolling or to take some measures. In addition, people can also report on issues related to general civic facilities such as electricity, water, roads, infrastructure etc. Here again, there is an option to give an optional description of incidents. In such cases, the problem will be considered urgently. If the number of reported incidents reach a particular threshold value it would add greater credibility to the incident reported, which would in turn encourage administrative agencies to take action for redressal.
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