Digital Local Government

e-gov  civic engagement   multi-disciplinary

Online Civic Engagement
Improving quality of life together

Civic Engagement & Action 
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Yasir Husain & Ata Kirmani
yasir.darya@gmail.com

Citizen-driven engagement platform, designed to bring  improvement in quality of life and environment indexes, using live date and online citizen engagement.

The effort will support citizen-friendly government function for all,  through structured interactions. These include reporting, monitoring, discussion and keeping complaints or pressure on proper track.

The user-interface will provide live citizen reporting and information on local Quality of Life indices, and ongoing works in any neighborhood. It would help in knowing more about real conditions in the neighborhood using integrated urban data, IoT internet of things, and crowdsourcing, and organing to change things through constructive engagement, and neighborhood/urban/rural development

Citizen-Government coordination 

  • A close liaison with numerous government departments providing specific services – Karachi, Sindh, Federal – and civil society organizations, runs in the background.
  • Soliciting online comments from citizens in future planning for neighborhoods, and or developments works, small and big.
  • Transparent or *Live* information on ongoing  projects and development works
  • Utility service complaints – citizen-monitored, transparent, online systems
  • Reliable emergency information
  • Citizen-monitoring
     

Quality of Life  factors are rated for comparison

  • Quality of Life indices provide comparative numerical rating of factors such as air quality, water quality, transport, safety, aesthetics, education, culture and entertainment, by neighborhood.
  • Live citizen monitoring of ongoing projects, neighborhoods, roads. 
  • Citizen generated environmental data
  • Information design using the Internet of Things, IoT.

Works like a game

  • Users interact in *gamified* scenarios on mobiles in a web/app platform (like whatsapp, facebook or careem). Their experiences are intelligently designed. 
  • Structured online social interaction
    An opportunity to start making an eco-friendly smart urban future for Karachi.

Inside tech

  • Backend: mongo db, node.js, mysql, redis     
  • Frontend: react-native
  • Hosting: aws, ms azure


 More details are available.  yasir.darya@gmail.com