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As Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline announced his graffiti task force today, Jim Willis sends along a pointer to his item on the Summit Neighborhood Association blog, City takes first steps towards addressing graffiti problem: (Link fixed)
...Another initiative referenced in the release is that citizens can file a graffiti report electronically at the city’s website. Unfortunately, the graffiti reporting tool is yet another government run roach motel (in that data goes in, but it never comes back out). Providence must follow the lead of other large cities (Chicago’s ICAM data drives chicagocrime.org or Washington DC’s Service Request data) that are using technology to increase transparency and visibility into city services.In a comment, he points to this reporting tool from the Lewisham section of London, where photos of trash document the problem and citizens are encouraged to upload the photos from their cellphones.What is missing on the City’s graffiti reporting site is a view of the data that citizens have submitted. ...
(Jim is IT director for the Secretary of State's office, and a Summit resident.)
