New App Will Allow Easton Residents to be 'Eyes and Ears' of Town
Citizens Connect, developed by the City of Boston, is coming to the Shovel Town.
Easton residents will soon be provided with a new app that will make it easier to report potholes, signs down or road hazards directly to the people who need to know. Town Administrator David Colton told Selectmen last week that the town received "verbal confirmation" that it will be involved in a program to expand Boston's "citizen's connect" application to municipalities in the commonwealth. According to the City of Boston website, Citizens Connect "empowers residents to become the city's 'eyes and ears.'" "We applied to be included in the citizens connect program which is essentially an app developed by the city of Boston where residents can, using their smart phone, if they see a pothole or a broken streetlight or a sign down they can …
John Kent
12:10 pm on Monday, December 17, 2012
I like this concept. My only question is if it is so successful as a program then why in 3 years are there only between 1-5k downloads in the Android store? Also is that number closer to 1k or 5k, Android doesn't show exact numbers. I would be curious for a reporter to get some actual number since it is getting 400k of taxpayers money. more ›