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About UsWhat We Do SeeClickFix encourages residents to become citizens by participating in taking care of and improving their neighborhoods. We allow anyone to: See - see a non-emergency issue in your neighborhood Click - open a ticket describing the issue and what can be done to resolve it Fix - publicly report the issue to everyone for resolution We're working on more features for the future. Some ideas we have include better collaboration on ticket updating, SeeClickFix local for citizens to band together, and local government features. If you have ideas for how we can improve the website, please contact us. Why We Do It Imagine a world where every citizen feels empowered and part of their neighborhood. Imagine if everyone trusted and felt taken care of by their local government. We know there are already a lot of involved citizens and hard-working local authorities and service people. We seek to use the power of the internet to bring them closer together and reach even more people. The founders of SeeClickFix live in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Planet Earth. We love our home (in fact one of our founders is well known for designing and and selling a local-pride T-shirt) and at the same time we know that any community can be improved. The most avid users of SeeClickFix will be those that love their home. A few local governments have enough sophistication to run functional websites or 311 hot lines. Most do not have the resources to do much more than brochure-ware. Our site is a place for citizens from anywhere to give their local government a website that tracks local issues. No set-up time. No hiring consultants to study the issue. Just SeeClickFix. We believe in the power of technology to promote:
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And we give a shout out to FixMyStreet as our proto-mythical inspiration and The Group With No Name for a shared sense of mission. More Details We're doing this in our spare time to help save the world so please go easy on us. This whole thing started in October and we only started working in earnest the last week of November. We have day jobs and haven't even figured out how/if we want to incorporate. You're still allowed to donate money to support our modest costs. BTW, although we wish we started Google, we didn't. All the map functionality is built on top of Google Maps. That's not our stuff and we're using it with permission. Thanks! |
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