Smarter Cities - Android Apps on Google Play
Get the new Smarter Cities Scan Android App, which brings together a mobile portfolio of assets from IBM’s Smarter Cities initiative: posts about Smarter Cities from the asmarterplanet.com blog; the Smarter Cities Tumblr site; Smarter Cities news from around the world; the mobile optimized Smarter Cities site on ibm.com; the Smarter Cities Challenge program and even the People for a Smarter Planet community on Facebook.
In addition to the iPhone app now available in the Apple App Store (that includes the new CitiesGeo feature built on the Smarter Cities Tumblr content), and the Smarter Planet and The Social Business apps on the Android Market, you can text yourself a link to download the Smarter Planet app customized by GetJar for other phones such as Nokia (Symbian) Palm (WebOS) and 2,100 smartphone models.
Get the Smarter Planet App for Android
- On an Android Phone now? This Android Market link will open the page to download. It will NOT work if you type it into a browser.
Not on a Android phone? When you are, open the Android Market app and search on Smarter Planet IBM.
Learn more about the app on AppBrain
CitySourced, a new app for Android, iPhone and Blackberry, helps you stay up to date on what’s going on in your area and helps get the word out on issues. For example, if you see a street light is out, you can take a picture of it and submit it. If you see graffiti, you can swipe a quick drive-by (careful!) picture and report it. Once an issue is reported, the app posts the problem, alerts City Hall, and puts a notice out on Twitter. www.androidphonesblog.com CitySourced for Android keeps you informed on issues in your city
I’m very proud of the partnership Tucson has forged with SeeClickFix. The development of the SeeClickFix Plus application channel for Tucson, available on the I-Phone, Blackberry and Android platforms, now allows our citizens to report non-emergency issues with their mobile phones. Though the project was only recently rolled out to the citizens of Tucson, it is being widely used.
My interest in SeeClickFix stems from the City’s need to find better ways to serve our citizens. Looking into the future, it seems likely that city budgets will continue to be constrained. It will be more and more difficult for cities to continue to deliver basic services as they have traditionally.
The use of technology—and SeeClickFix in particular—can help increase efficiency and productivity in city operations. Any savings can be used to maintain those basic services in difficult times.
Moreover, the emerging model for city governments requires a change in culture. Cities will continue to provide basic services, such as police, firefighting, water, garbage collection and parks and recreation. But more often than now, cities will be forced to provide the means for citizens to help themselves. SeeClickFix enables our citizens to easily identify, locate and even prioritize non-emergency issues. When citizens can fill this role, then government can more easily fulfill citizens’ service needs.
And there may also be times where citizens can view issues—such as litter, graffiti or tall weeds—through SeeClickFix and take care of the issues through their neighborhood associations, civic groups or just by themselves. This can help government stretch limited tax dollars, too.
I encourage other cities to consider using SeeClickFix and other technologies to help solve problems, save money, increase transparency and accountability and serve its citizens better.
Sincerely,
Andrew Greenhill
Mayor’s Chief of Staff
City of Tucson
SeeClickFix: SeeClickFix released on Android
We’re happy to announce the “world’s first” application for reporting non-emergency issues on the android platform. You can download the application from the android market under Applications > Tools or by searching for “seeclickfix”.
Trapster is the most popular driving related mobile app in the world (both in cumulative and ongoing daily downloads). It is the first location-based application that alerts users in real-time when they approach speed traps or red-light cameras. It takes advantage of user input and the power of the community to provide not only the trap information, but also to arbitrate the veracity of that information. It also provides turn-by-turn directions, real time traffic, accident reports, gas stations, banks, rest stops, local search, and more. Trapster is free.
