Why Local Authorities needs to embrace technology?
Shohan Kulasuriya
Transforming visions into reality with passion and purpose | World Summit Award Winner | Founder - Deegenics, PinkDrives, ManKiwwa, Tellit & Get Connectz | Rotarian | Social Entrepreneur | Trainer | Speaker | Consultant
It shouldn’t come as a shock to most of you, but there are seemingly endless tasks involved in managing a local authority. This means it takes a huge number of skilled employees just to maintain a town/city and keep things running smoothly. Consider what happens to a town/city every single day, garbage issues, roads broken, canals blocked, traffic, accidents and many more. Before each one of these gets solved, they need to be reported. Consider the average time taken to reporting an incident, explain the location and the time to maintain the books. The valuable time is taken for communication and maintaining records.
It is very important authorities embracing new technologies to create a network for easier communication while empowering the citizens to report incidents in a smarter & a quicker way. We can cut down time of all individuals who is involved in the reporting and receiving ends.
Having the best solution to report incidents isn’t going to work all alone. Think of what more the public can do if they trust the authorities for attending to make sure that they will take immediate action to solve the reported issues.
By introducing tech to the public, you can have a watchdog network that can give you vital information faster than anything you’ve used before.
So what about an app that can snap a photo with the location of a fallen tree, piled garbage or other safety hazard that you can report to the exact person who can act on it, all in mere seconds? That’s the beginning of a brand new direction in handling incident reporting in Local Authorities.