Wouldn’t it be nice if you could carry a pocket-sized reference tool with information for all the upcoming events in your city or town? YouTown ties it all together and delivers it to your mobile device, making it a one-stop shop for keeping up with events in your town.
There’s really nothing like a hometown newspaper. Local news is interesting because of its direct bearing and relation to the lives of citizens. That’s why YouTown empowers cities to relate to the public in the same way, bringing government alongside the other important aspects of a citizen’s life.
There’s a new way for cities and towns to provide location-based information about everything from libraries to bus stops to public art.
Yeah, we’re excited. And can you blame us? Having worked since last fall with some fantastic cities on the Beta test of our soon-to-be-released mobile app for communities, we’re adding thirteen agencies for the final month of testing!
That’s right — we’re taking additional volunteers for our second round of Beta testing for the YouTown application. Are you a city / county / municipal agency who would like to experience unprecedented mobile communication with citizens? Or do you know someone who would be interested? We’ll give free access to the app in return [...]
It’s been an eventful year at DotGov as we developed and tested the soon-to-be-released YouTown application. We started the Beta trial run in October and plan to present the app to the public in the first quarter of 2011! Throughout the process, we naturally kept an interested eye on the Gov2.0 space, noting the trends [...]
First came a great idea: fostering transparency and openness within government by making datasets available online for public use and observation. Next came a problem: how to make that data relatable, understandable — in a word, usable — for citizens.
People are talking about YouTown. The buzz can mean only one thing: the concept of YouTown strikes a chord with open-gov enthusiasts. Its benefits are not limited to one country or one people group.
The redefining of the web over the past decade has meant unprecedented opportunities for almost every sector. YouTown is one such solution. It’s mobile access to local government.
Open data is the wave of the future for successful, citizen-empowering governments. When local governments prepare their data feeds for the YouTown app, they are instantly participating in the open data phenomenon.
