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Jack Johnson Touts CitySourced’s Gulf Spill Reporter App
Aug 6th
It looks like the cap on the bp oil well is going to work, however that doesn’t mean the gulf oil spill cleanup is over. It’s estimated that there is going to be oil washing on the shore for months. We are glad to be working with Skytruth documenting the oil spill with Android and iPhones. Recently Jack Johnson who has been promoting gulf awareness got involved with us and has been promoting us at his concerts in the region.
“Johnson is also encouraging his Gulf Coast fans to report the oil spill impacts that they witness first hand. All At Once non-profit partners Ocean Conservancy and Surfrider Foundation have collaborated with CitySourced to develop the SkyTruth Oil Spill Reporter — a free smart phone application that empowers Gulf Coast residents to snap and tag photos of oil on the land, in the water, and affected wildlife. These citizen reports help prioritize clean-up efforts and document the extent of the spill for policy makers and the public.”
Read More at tmcnet.com
On Our Move to the Windows Azure Cloud Platform
Jun 22nd
Our case study about our migration to the Azure Cloud platform is now live at Microsoft.com. Since the case study was published we have published our new site CitySourced, and it’s working great. The added computing power of Windows Azure and the storage of all the image data will help us nimbly scale up to meet the demands of the new site. Behind the scenes we setup a massive number of web crawls to index local governments and we needed some serious horsepower to do this work. Our Chief Architect, Jason Kiesel says, “Without Windows Azure, the database team would have to assemble a massive cluster of computers to run the web crawls. It would be impossible for a small startup to get this kind of computing power and storage. Even with the resources to acquire the number of computers to run the crawls, they would find there would be large amounts of downtime as they ran queries and then waited to refine queries or for new tasks to queue up.”
Read more on Microsoft.com
CitySourced Integrates San Francisco’s Open 311 System
May 5th
Mobile phone app connects citizens directly to city services
San Francisco — May 5th, 2010 — CitySourced, a real time mobile civic engagement company and a finalist at the 2009 TechCrunch50 conference, announced today that its innovative mobile phone application is now integrated with the San Francisco Open311 API to send reports from CitySourced directly to San Francisco’s 311 system. 311 systems allow citizens to connect directly with non-emergency government offices. This is an unprecedented public/private partnership that captures the essence of the Gov2.0 movement. This means citizens will be able to quickly photograph important issues in their community with their smart phones and receive feedback on when their issues get resolved. In addition to the photo, the CitySourced application delivers the physical address of the issue via GPS coordinates, date/time stamp, and the report type (graffiti, trash, pothole, etc.). CitySourced aims to reduce the amount of calls that come into city hall, helping to reduce costs, increase efficiency, as well as make it easier for city employees to verify issues using the rich data. The Open311 API allows CitySourced to take the initiative and deliver value through its application to the city of San Francisco. “CitySourced is changing the way citizens interact with city services,” said Chris Vein, City CIO. “The CitySourced application will give San Franciscans the power and ability to instantly report city issues, not only empowering their role as citizens, but making the city an even better and safer place to live.” In March 2010, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom launched Open311 API, allowing software developers to write web applications that interact directly with city departments.
CitySourced for San Francisco is available right now for free download in the Apple iTunes app store as ‘San Francisco 311′, and is launching in Q2 2010 on Blackberry & Android. CitySourced currently allows citizens in over 1900 cities nationwide to directly deliver citizen reports to city council and public works via e-mail. CitySourced is powered by FreedomSpeaks, the largest database of public officials in the United States. CitySourced has official integration with districts in San Jose and Los Angeles, California. Additional major cities have signed up to the service and are coming online in Q2 2010.
About CitySourced:
CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement tool. CitySourced provides 1) a free, simple, and intuitive tool empowering citizens to identify civic issues graffiti, trash, potholes etc.) and report them to city hall for quick resolution; 2) an opportunity for government to use technology to save money and be more accountable to those they govern; and 3) a positive, collaborative platform for real civic action. The platform is called CitySourced, as it empowers ordinary citizens to crowd source solutions for common civic issues. CitySourced is powered by FreedomSpeaks, the leader in interactive civic engagement.
For more information about CitySourced, including images, please visit CitySourced.com
For more information about FreedomSpeaks, please visit FreedomSpeaks.com
Contact: Kurt Daradics
Phone 323-540-4007
Email: kurt@citysourced.com
Join Us for Download Day LA!
Apr 13th
Following up on our announcement last week of Eric Garcetti’s adopting CitySourced, we are kicking it off with “Download Day” this Saturday April 17th.
We want to see a few of our LA Tech friends out to support CitySourced. You in? Please retweet!
Official Invite:
Join Council President Eric Garcetti, at the launching of Garcetti 3-1-1, A new iPhone App that allows Angelenos to easily report graffiti, potholes, and other problems with their iPhone!
Americans (SIPA) Community Room 3200 Temple Street Los Angeles, CA 90026
CitySourced Goes Hollywood
Apr 7th
Hello! In case you missed it yesterday Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti announced a launch of our platform, to be piloted in Los Angeles. The team here is excited to have CitySourced integrated in our very own hometown’s work flow. The full press release is after the jump. But now when you log an issue through city sourced in his district it will be brought directly to his attention. There will be an “Garcetti 311″ branded app in the app store and more news to come.
Full Press release below
GARCETTI ANNOUNCES NEW iPHONE APPLICATION
“Garcetti 311” by CitySourced will allow users
to submit service requests via iPhone
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti today
announced “Garcetti 311,” a new application for iPhones that will
allow users to snap and submit photos of potholes, graffiti, and other
problems in his district for the city to address. The application,
developed by CitySourced, will be launched as a pilot program in
Garcetti’s Council District, which stretches from Hollywood to
Glassell Park.
“The new app empowers Angelenos to improve our neighborhoods by
providing a quick, easy way of letting city government know where
there are problems that need to be fixed. I’m proud to launch the
pilot program in my district,” said Council President Garcetti.
CitySourced Making News Again
Jan 13th
Check out Kurt “The Cyberguy” from the City Sourced team talking about the App to Fox News Milwaukee. The news coverage is getting bigger everyday, loving how excited people are about the app.