Governments are asking and citizens are telling
The San Jose Mobile City Hall was launched on December 15th as a free download from the Apple iTunes store.
“We need to embrace emerging technologies in order to more efficiently serve our residents at a time when our budgets are dwindling and deferred infrastructure maintenance costs are skyrocketing,” said San Jose Councilman Pete Constant.
A caution to New Orleans citizens: Don’t expect to get something like this within the context of the existing closed contracting process that has delivered failure after failure in IT projects. The city should focus on producing real-time quality city data, and expose the data from systems such as 311 to API’s (Application Programming Interfaces), supporting the private for-profit and non-profit sectors, academic researchers, and independent developers, who will find infinitely more innovate ways to use that data than the closed policy-making structure of City Hall.
[...] government records on mobile devices. Government API’s are now available in San Francisco, San Jose, Portland, Washington, D.C., Austin, Boston, and New [...]