6 Tech Ideas Shortlisted For Tech-in-Governance

Residents Report – RR® – is a Social Innovation application that “puts the city in our hands, allows citizens/residents decide the destiny of their communities and gets public service agencies to do their jobs accountably”. The Residents Report platform, (to be powered by user friendly mobile & web apps) will allow people point local problems to the public service institutions responsible in order for these every-day issues to be solved quickly and efficiently. They say “a problem shared is a problem solved.” With Residents Report – we believe that a problem “reported” is a problem more likely solved.

What’s unique about the Idea?

In today’s ever-changing, innovative technology-driven world; it has become more imperative than ever for governments to interactively engage with its people.  These ICT have largely contributed to the growth of new demand for citizen empowerment and this engagement in itself forms the very tenet of true “democracy”: a government FOR and BY the people. Therefore, empowering citizens to hold their governments accountable for the provision of much needed public services is crucial to measuring good governance, civic responsibility and holding government officials to their campaign promises.

Idea #4 - CitizenVine

A web application that allows citizen to suggest and rate project ideas for the government as well as review ongoing projects by the government

What’s unique about the Idea?

The idea puts the citizens at the driver seat of project creation, execution and monitoring.

Idea #5 - Ideas2020

Ideas2020.com is a web application that will empower people to drive innovation towards realizing Nigeria’s vision2020. The web application collect specific ideas from citizens, give them a platform to vote, the most important ideas bubble to the top.

What’s unique about the Idea?

This will be the first idea sharing website for getting citizen’s ideas to the government.

Idea #6 - Budget4u

The idea is to do analysis of the Nigerian state and federal budgets and present them in a readable format which includes figures,  charts, diagram and performance analysis for the Nigerian populace. This is key to proper understanding of what budgets entails and sourcing this information can be easily gotten form budget offices and enhanced through the passage of FOI bill. This is critical to benchmark governance and the government’s allocation to specific sectors.

What’s unique about the Idea?

It is an idea that will ride on a mobile app and text based subscription service by requesting key words. It will include charts in its contents for comparisons and sectoral allocation. It is about bringing the budgets in readable format and including Nigerians on how their money is being allocated to each specific sector and can be part of monitoring process.

Tech-In Governance is organizing a 48-hour event that would gather ideas, people and digital tools aimed at creating novel web & mobile solutions to transform citizen participation in governance.

The event scheduled for 24th to 26th of March, 2011 would provide an open space and a living lab with the aim of transforming a set of early-stage ideas into prototypes in 48hrs.

Participants will be organised into teams to work on each of the best 6 ideas.

In an election year, there’s a need for smart ideas to be injected into governance and technology has a key role to play.