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To access links, see Steven Clift's blog: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=241 Post: Crime alerts via SMS, e-mail, fax - Looking for best integrated solutions * Remember to click on the blog post link to see and follow the embedded links. This story caught my eye - Crime alerts at your fingertips in Boston. In Minneapolis, we can sign up for crime e-mail alerts, but not select text messages. Downtown the police even use a few two-way e-mail lists with security guards and bar owners. In Chicago, an independent group ChicagoCrime.Org is showing how to best display crime information. In Fareham Council, England you can text the council with graffiti and vandalism reports among other items with a mobile photo if you like. In Lancashire County, England the poll residents about issues via the mobiles. See the brief on SMS Citizen Input. I'd like to send my city and all of you some good overview articles and more examples of the more integrated applications that allow citizens to choose the device they which to receive the content and allow citizens to provide input to the same channel (SMS, e-mail, 311/telephone, etc.) such that it is routed and dealt with promptly by government. Please add links and suggested articles in the comment section of the blog. I'll post the best to the now 645 member Minneapolis Issues Forum to wake my town up to the potential. Also, if you are interested join my proposed Mobile Government and Communities online community of practice: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/mobile Cheers, Steven Clift http://dowire.org *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org *** To comment/for links: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=241 To network: http://groups.dowire.org Submit posts: http://dowire.org/submit Member profile for Steven: http://groups.dowire.org/main/contacts/stevenclift ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail: http://groups.dowire.org/main/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/topic/117805 For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
