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Topics A-Z listing of examples showing how governments are providing mobile apps to access mobile government services via mobile phones, smartphones and pdas.
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- Snap Send Solve
- Developed by Outware Mobile. "Snap Send Solve let's citizens report problems to your council conveniently and accurately, in under 30 seconds. Snap Send Solve is a free iPhone app that lets citizens report issues and provide feedback to your council in under 30 seconds. How Snap Send Solve Works Snap Send Solve determines the citizens location using GPS and sends back all relevant council details, including your council contact information, location, and email address. All reports from Snap Send Solve are sent from a citizens email address so that your council can communicate directly with the citizen to resolve the issue. We are working to develop deeper integration with council backend systems..."
Added: 20 June 2011;
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- iComplain app proves a hit for ratepayers
- by Mitchell Toy. Sunday Herald Sun, June 19, 2011. "Disgruntled ratepayers have been given a new hi-tech weapon to report vandalism and damage to slow-moving local councils. An iPhone application that allows users to take a photo of faulty infrastructure and automatically send it to the right council using GPS positioning is becoming a hit across the country. The free Snap Send Solve app, made by Melbourne tech developer Outware Mobile, has already been used to report thousands of problems including graffiti, broken parking ticket machines and potholes..."
Added: 20 June 2011;
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- Warning: Mobile medical apps may be hazardous to your health
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, June 9, 2011. "New mobile applications for health care may not be providing medically accurate information, according to Abdul Shaikh, a program director and behavioral scientist at the National Cancer Institute. Meanwhile, it's imperative that federal agencies move quickly to free as much of their health care data and research information as possible to help ensure that new innovative health applications being developed are based on science..."
Added: 14 June 2011;
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- Seoul launches mobile map service
- By Clarice Africa. FutureGov, 7 June 2011. "The Seoul Metropolitan Government has just recently launched the 'Smart Seoul Map', the South Korean capital's smartphone app service that consists of 124 basic maps and enables users to locate 782 types of Point of Interests in the city..."
Added: 9 June 2011;
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- mHealth - New horizons for health through mobile technologies - in pdf format (3402kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Based on the findings of the second global survey on eHealth. Global Observatory for eHealth series - Volume 3. World Health Organization, June 2011. "... The use of mobile and wireless technologies to support the achievement of health objectives (mHealth) has the potential to transform the face of health service delivery across the globe. A powerful combination of factors is driving this change. These include rapid advances in mobile technologies and applications, a rise in new opportunities for the integration of mobile health into existing eHealth services, and the continued growth in coverage of mobile cellular networks... For the first time the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) has sought to determine the status of mHealth in Member States; its 2009 global survey contained a section specifically devoted to mHealth. Completed by 114 Member States, the survey documented for analysis four aspects of mHealth: adoption of initiatives, types of initiatives, status of evaluation, and barriers to implementation. Fourteen categories of mHealth services were surveyed: health call centres, emergency toll-free telephone services, managing emergencies and disasters, mobile telemedicine, appointment reminders, community mobilization and health promotion, treatment compliance, mobile patient records, information access, patient monitoring, health surveys and data collection, surveillance, health awareness raising, and decision support systems..."
Added: 9 June 2011;
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- Mobile health technologies go global
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, June 7, 2011. "Government use of mobile health technologies is experiencing a rush of activity with 83 percent of the countries in the World Health Organization offering at least one type of mHealth service, according to a survey from the organization. Of the 112 governments surveyed on mobile health in 2009, the most recent survey available, there were 100 governments that reported offering at least one application of mobile health, or mHealth..."
Added: 9 June 2011;
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- App for mobile phones helps diagnose concussions
- By Joedy McCreary - AP Sports Writer. The Boston Globe, June 3, 2011. "Chapel HILL, N.C. - The next tool in the campaign against concussions might be your smartphone. A concussion expert at the University of North Carolina teamed with other head-trauma researchers to develop an application for mobile devices that helps determine whether someone may have suffered a concussion..."
Added: 8 June 2011;
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- Storm phone apps rise to popularity
- By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 30 May 2011. "As images of destruction from recent tornadoes dominate TV news, weather apps for smartphones are in high demand..."
Added: 2 June 2011;
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- QR Codes – 8 Ways Your Department Can Use Them
- By Pam Armstrong. Connected Cops, May 27, 2011. "QR codes were created in the 90s to help Toyota keep track of the parts in it’s factories. Today QR codes are being used by businesses, government entities and individuals to create graphical scannable links to websites, phone numbers, maps.etc. These codes provide an engaging way for people to get to desired information easily just by launching an app and pointing their mobile phones camera at them. In addition, QR codes can be easily printed onto paper, stickers, signs, and placed digitally into webpages. Because not everyone has a QR reader or knows what a QR code is, it’s important to provide alternate forms of getting the same information..."
Added: 2 June 2011;
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- CeBIT 2011: NSW Govt awards 11 grants to mobile tech projects
- Roamz, Sydney Opera House, PayPal amongst beneficiaries, by Computerworld Staff. CIO, 1 June, 2011. "Projects designed to aid the digital economy in New South Wales, and inject approximately $30 million into the state, have been awarded grants by the NSW Government..."
Added: 2 June 2011;
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- Arkansas.gov Unveils First-in-the-Nation Features, Officials Say
- By Sarah Rich. Government Technology, May 19, 2011. "Arkansas this week officially released a redesign of its state website, Arkansas.gov, and mobile version, which state officials said has two new features not found on any other portal: Text4help and an e-government services geolocation widget. The Text4help feature allows users of the mobile version to input a question about government services in the form of a text message. Customer service staff then respond back in a text message with an answer..."
Added: 20 May 2011;
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- Frost & Sullivan: mGovernment is the Key Enabler of Smart Government
- Implementation Driven by Advanced Technologies and Potential for Citizen Participation. PRLog (Press Release) – May 12, 2011 – LONDON – 12 May 2011 – "Mobile Government (mGovernment) is a major tool that would support the establishment of Smart Government - participation-driven and making every citizen accountable for various government policies and procedures. With mobile penetration crossing hundred percent in many European countries, the best way to initiate participation-driven government is the use of mobile technologies. Various mobile technologies such as cellular technologies, location-based technologies, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth offer an unmatched platform, for enabling participation-based government..."
Added: 13 May 2011;
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- U.S. military launches military app store
- Army Marketplace to act as vehicle for streamlining, collaboration during combat. Q13 FOX News Online Web Reporter, May 10, 2011. "Washington, D.C. — The military has launched an official app store, called the Army Marketplace, designed to support soldiers and keep operations running smoothly. The store currently contains more than 30 apps, built for both iPhones and Android-powered phones, but is password protected and restricted to government and army personnel..."
Added: 12 May 2011;
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- Surrey council launches e-library mobile app
- Free library application aims to make it easier for residents to access e-books and e-audio books. Guardian Government Computing - Guardian Professional, Monday 9 May 2011. "Surrey county council has launched a free e-library to app to give residents access to the authority's online library. Residents can use their normal online login details and access around 600 titles, said the council..."
Added: 12 May 2011;
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- Let Visitors Know About Your Mobile Site
- Mobile Gov Blog, May 9th, 2011. "If a mobile site or app launches and nobody knows, will it make a sound? ..."
Added: 10 May 2011;
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