Along with the national sites, like petitions.pm.gov.uk, WriteToThem, and TheyWorkForYou, it’s good to see the councils finally bringing more services online for residents. For a while, people have been able to report lighting and roads faults to them using RALF, and also pay their council bills online at billpayment.co.uk. Certainly, the entire online scheme of Glasgow seems to be contained under the umbrella at their Access Center, and their eGovernment strategy
The latest one to hit the news is NeighbourhoodFixIt. Pulling together local news and making it available to the governing body. People can report issues, update on existing issues, and see if it’s already been reported or not. All that’s needed now is a return channel for the council to feed back to the site to tell people what the plan of action is. It also doesn’t integrate with local strategies such as RALF. That said, it is still a beta product, and they’ve done well to get it this far. I’ll be using it, and I’d like to think others will.
*edit* And to make things even better, most of the code that MySociety creates is licensed under the GPL 🙂
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