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SIGNA.ci

SIGNA.ci is an Ivorian citizen-reporting platform (Abidjan and nationwide) for flagging, geolocating, and tracking real-time public-service failures, electricity cuts (CIE), water cuts/leaks (SODECI), potholes, broken streetlights, and blocked drains.

Ivory Coast

Tayr

Tayr (طير) is a Moroccan civic platform, by the Digital Citizen Association, that lets residents report visual pollution (unsightly signage, billboards, urban blight) in their cities and track its resolution; currently piloting in Smara.

https://4philly.netActiveOpen-source

4PHILLY

4PHILLY is a free, open-source, independent tenant tool that lets Philadelphia renters check any address against the City's public records, open code violations, rental-license status, and 311 complaints, before signing a lease or when fighting a landlord.

Philadelphia

FixMyStreet Japan (Machimon)

Smartphone app for citizens to report public infrastructure issues with photos to local governments.

Japan

Chiba Repo

An app where citizens report public infrastructure issues to prompt administrative responses; the predecessor of MyCityReport.

Chiba City, Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

My City Report (MCR)

Chibarepo (ちばレポ, "Chiba Report") is a government-run citizen-reporting platform from Chiba City, Japan, that lets residents report local problems like damaged roads or broken playground equipment for the city to resolve.

Chiba City, Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

311SA

The Better Futures Institute, in collaboration with San Antonio's 311 department, empowers the city's 1.5 million residents via the 311SA mobile app.

San Antonio, TX

“Seeing” Neighborhoods through “Big” Data

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

Boston, MA
city, census, Sustainable cities and communities

Custodianship in the Urban Commons

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

Boston, MA
public space