CityGram (Redeploy)

Project Phase: Redeploy (Wishlist)

Description: One stop shop for ALL citizens to subscribe for geo-centric alerts from various departments of their local government. City event notifications, Upcoming street closures, Permit violations, crime in their neighborhood, etc. Help residents better understand what’s going on in their area, when it’s going to happen, and why. By providing timely information to residents in areas that are relevant to them, the city can be proactive instead of reactive.

Goal: Build trust through transparency, and increase civic engagement across the board.

Dependencies: Open Data Portal (to be deployed in Durham by 2015) to dump relevant datasets from different data sources