Government: Citizens as Public Sensors

Another technique to improve how government works:

When people talk about the effects of Gov 2.0, the discussion tends to center around transparency and making data available to the general public. But information can flow in both directions. SeeClickFix believes that the citizens may have as much to offer local government as the government may have to offer to the people. By letting the man (literally) on the street report issues to local city or town departments, and making them trackable, it shifts some of the management burden to the people most affected by them.

See Citizens as public sensors by James Turner, April 12, 2010, and SeeClickFix.com.