A crowd sourced community based and funded app that will augment the surveillance camera system by allowing Morgantown residents to locate, photograph and GPS tag dog droppings and other refuse or unsafe conditions on public downtown sidewalks, which will interact via a map with city workers to aid them in remedying the situations. A reward system for photographs initiating the cleanups will be in place, and city worker time and involvement will be trackable and verifiable. Civic minded individuals will be moved to clean up the city, especially those who are forced to walk on the Walnut Street Bridge in a narrow confined area. Walkers are frequently students but also residents of all ages. Campaigns using posters and a billboard will bring awareness of the need to clean up and keep clean our city and there should be enough people willing to participate in the efforts. The app will allow documentation of unclean and unsafe sidewalk conditions and will show efforts tak...
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I think this app would actually be usable in my campaign to realize a clean downtown Morgantown. This app will be used to augment the surveillance camera system in the city. Cameras can't be everywhere, but citizens can. Rather than come up with three separate apps, I will propose an app that has (at least) three functions. The name is still in progress - I originally came up with "Citizen Response and Pictures" (C.R.A.P), and then came up with " Turd Alert ". Since I envision several uses for this app, probably a more refined name will be in order for the whole app, and " Turd Alert "may just be the name for the portion that tracks dog droppings. What I propose is a crowd-sourced app that will allow users to photograph what errant dog walkers leave behind, and also other sidewalk conditions and safety situations. The app will be made available on the Morgantown City website and among other places, as a QR code on all the main poster locations i...
App idea Rather than create some random large scale social media platform, I would like to create an app that would allow Morgantown residents to upload pictures and locations of dog droppings primarily, but also vomit and trash and other impediments to clean sidewalks onto a geo - map. This map could be used by Casey and his crew of cleaners to respond to current conditions. Video surveillance cameras can't be everywhere. This would give residents the ability to act as mobile cameras and to participate personally in the campaign to clean up the sidewalks. It would be ideal if perpetrators, i.e., people who do not clean up after their pets, could also be photographed or videoed, but this may be dangerous to do as the perpetrators will feel threatened and will become defensive. The focus should therefore be on real-time locating of unclean conditions that a clean up crew can respond to. Users can add comments, like "This pile has been here for two days" or could inclu...
5 Social Medias I am not into social media at all. I avoid it as I don't need to have an Internet presence, too much already with the way they suck all your private information online. If I need to contact someone it will be by e-mail or a text, or worst case scenario by phone, which I can only tolerate in small bits. I hate incoming phone calls as a rule and monitor all coming in. I discourage callers and will not take incoming calls on my cell phone as a rule and do not have voice mail set up on it. You can see that I am not a candidate for social media. The loose definition of social media given on Wikipedia encompasses things I would not normally think of as social media. Facebook or MySpace are the things that come to mind when I think social media. They work like websites for a person and their interests, and are built around an individual or a group/business. These sites are used to share personal and non personal information, ideas and media to a possibly wide audience...
Critical Reflection for Digital Curation Project who your audience is specifically, what you hope to persuade then to believe with your exhibit, what you want them to do (your call to action), and why . You should also include in your introduction a clearly identifiable, clickable 'hot link' to your DCP. Reflection : Especially for anyone doing so on a daily basis, a walk across the Walnut Street Bridge into Downtown Morgantown will feel like a depressing and disgusting experience - but it shouldn't be that way. I want to walk into and around the city and to be proud and happy to do so. I want others to be proud and happy to walk around our city. This is " why " I have chosen this topic. " What " one is faced with when one walks the sidewalks of Morgantown is refuse and discarded food, cigarette butts, vomit, dog and human feces and other disturbing items. Loiterers will sometime block the way almost completely and create a gauntlet to pass, and...