Lost in Boston
Lost in Boston is a general-purpose web tool that cities can use to get citizens involved in civic improvement projects.
How might communities use it?
Citizens can submit their ideas for the most poorly marked intersections in Boston. Their submissions can contain photographs, video, and other supporting media. Citizens vote on what intersections are in most need of attention. They contribute suggestions for improving the signage at intersections in the form of drawings, etc. and can vote on those suggestions as well. Sponsors sign on to pay for improving the intersections voted most in need, in exchange for placement on signs and/or on the web, and using sponsor funds, the city, perhaps in partnership with other groups, fabricates the new signs and puts them in place.
At what stage of development is it?
Recently proposed, we are currently in meetings with the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and local government officials. The first sign was recently installed on the grounds of MassArt, at 821 Huntington Ave.
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Lost in BostonProject team:
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Sounds interesting. Have you considered using www.seeclickfix.com? I think it may be a platform that would work well for you.
It is a good idea.
I like this idea very much. I have lived in Boston for 5 years. But without a GPS I might get lost any time. But question is how big the sponsors' fund will be?
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