“CitySourced was founded on a simple premise : to let everyday citizens make their city a better place. Our aim is to streamline, prevent, and help predict the occurances of urban blights such as graffiti, potholes, and obstructions using mobile technology.
“We are thrilled to announce our first key strategic partners for CitySourced. The City of San Jose with nearly 1 million citizens has just signed on as our first customer and we also have an R&D partnership with Palm® to develop on its WebOS™ platform,” said Jason Kiesel, Founder and Chief Architect of CitySourced.
Using a smartphone, users will be able to take a photo of an urban blight with the CitySourced app and automatically have that information be routed to the appropriate City Hall so the issue can be addressed. Cities will be empowered by CitySource to quickly identify the problem with built-in GPS coordinates and a rich backend metric dashboard. The app will be available in the next month in the Apple iTunes store, and Citysourced expects to launch the application within the next quarter on the other major platforms like Palm, Blackberry, & Google Andriod. CitySourced is the only nationwide crowdsourced civic improvement platform. Powered by FreedomSpeaks, CitySourced will work immediately in over 1900 cities nationwide.
About CitySourced CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement tool. CitySourced provides a free, simple, and intuitive tool empowering citizens to identify civil issues (potholes, graffiti, trash, snow removal, etc.) and report them to city hall for quick resolution ; an opportunity for government to use technology to save money and be more accountable to those they govern ; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. The platform is called CitySourced, as it empowers ordinary citizens to crowdsource solutions for common civil issues. CitySourced is powered by FreedomSpeaks, the leader in interactive civic engagement. For more information, please visit : http://www.citysourced.com .
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