I told you recently about the Civic Reporter application that I have been working on at Comwifinet. This coming week we are going to work on getting Brent Council to adopt this idea to support the Big Brent Clean-up campaign. Here’s hoping! Keep you all up to date…
“- IT upgraded in Brent – so council staff can discuss the world cup online” - maybe the Council and BRAVA will find the resources to support The Bonnet Project so residents associations and community groups can communicate with each other online.
hush! here’s a sneek on something I’ve been working on at comwifinet recently… Spot it? Text it! - report things to Brent Council via SMS and MMS. What things? a faulty parking meter, fly-tipping, broken things in the environment that you see out and about. Here is the opportunity to report them as you see them… using your mobile phone.
I’m a big user of messaging applications. From my email addiction to my instant messaging accounts. I like IM’s. I like online status messages. My current online status reads: ‘that’s not a pig - it’s a shaved cat with its tail permed’. My friend Adoms' status messages are usually a gem. Currently it reads ‘We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered....
Just been browsing round the internet for civic society internet training projects in the area as I’m interested to find examples to support the development of comwifinet. Here are some links: http://www.ealingcvs.org.uk/ http://www.brentbrain.org.uk/brain/webpages.nsf/0/72B70A881B7DBA5A80256A690038EA8F?opendocument&mode=