Tools For Thought - Intelegia

Here is a web application that we happened to notice on the City of Evanston’s Facebook Fan Page.

SeeClickFix is a tool that “encourages residents to become citizens by participating in taking care of and improving their neighborhoods“.  In short, the application is a platform to post concerns about the communities that they live in.  Figure 1 illustrates the SeeClickFix page for the City of Toronto.

Figure 1: City of Toronto’s SeeClickFix Page

As shown in Figure 1, the main issues that are posted on the page are:

1. Maintenance destroying park
2. Dead tree branches
3. Tree Removal

Located on the righthand side of the page is a list of locations in and around Toronto that citizens are free to post their concerns about where they live.

By using the same model as SeeClickFix, would there be a need to have an identical application for an economic development agency?  The agency would be able to open it up to citizens and other stakeholders of  the city or region to measure their needs.  On the other hand, would agencies be ready to manage any reconstructive feedback (be it positive or negative)?

SeeClickFix is available at www.seeclickfix.com

Would your economic development agency be willing to use a tool such as SeeClickFix?  Tell us!!!