Technology helping Citizens to express their Needs and Improve their Neighborhood

Hana Kopackova, Jitka Komarkova, Jakub Jech
2019 2019 International Conference on Information and Digital Technologies (IDT)  
Suitable technologies support an effort of citizens to improve their neighbourhood e.g. by reporting problematic issues on a public infrastructure. Citizens are able to identify problematic issues in their environment faster than local governments because they live in a particular place and they are interested in the quality of their life. A citizen reporting tool (CRIsPI) should provide an easy way of reporting problems (issues), seeing already reported issues and seeing feedback. Various
more » ... are used in the Czech Republic: phone, e-mail, Web form, WebGIS, and mobile applications. Case study evaluates penetration of CRIsPI tools in the Czech Republic in July 2018 among municipalities over 1 000 inhabitants. It provides both a detail view in a form of maps and basic descriptive statistics. E.g. all municipalities over 50 000 inhabitants provide at least one CRIsPI tool to inhabitants. Several municipalities provide a combination of more tools. Small municipalities more frequently provide phone or e-mail communication or a Web form only.
doi:10.1109/dt.2019.8813471 fatcat:buymzkzgprbahjccqsvtdxtfxy