CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. CitySourced provides a free, simple, and intuitive platform empowering residents to identify civic issues (public safety, quality of life, & environmental issues, etc.) and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology to save time and money plus improve accountability to those they govern; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. A picture tells a thousand words and CitySourced makes it a snap.

Report potholes, graffiti and anything else that's broken in the public space to governments anywhere in the world and help fix problems yourself. http://www.seeclickfix.com/apps

Open Town Hall is an online public comment platform with the order & decorum of a government meeting -- so it's civil, legal and insightful (as well as easy to use and inexpensive). Over 30 government agencies have used Open Town Hall to post over 600 forums, attract over 50,000 attendees, and garner a satisfaction rating of over 96%. Check-it-out: http://www.OpenTownHall.com

Developed by local tech talent, the Santa Cruz Police App is the nation’s first app connecting the public with the police department. Providing public access to the police scanner, this app also allows users to send in crime tips, view real-time crime maps, and access news, photos and videos. The app promotes public safety, knowledge, transparency and awareness.

Sources:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/santa-cruz-police/id426170145?mt=8

http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/index.aspx?page=56

How walkable is your street, neighbourhood or city? Walkonomics is a web-app that rates and maps the pedestrian-friendliness of streets and urban areas by combining Open Data and Crowdsourcing. So far, Walkonomics has a rating for every street in New York and England (thats over 600,000 ratings).

Blockboard connects you to your neighborhood through a mobile app: local news, neighborhood issues and events, community sharing (@blockboardapp)

ChicagoLobbyists.org is an open data, open government, and open source project intended to improve the transparency of interactions between the City of Chicago and lobbyists and their clients.

The City of Calgary Road Conditions app is designed to help you plan your commute during winter storms. Download this app and get real-time information on plow/sander locations, road conditions and traffic cameras. This app will also notify you anytime a Snow Route parking ban has been advised, declared or lifted.

After the Japan tsunami narrowly missed Honolulu we decided to build an app that would let residents and visitors know real time if they were in a inundation zone. We also show potential refuge shelters

The application's goal is to enhance government websites nationwide by providing a simple way for the public to send improvement suggestions regarding specific government websites or applications. It is a place for users of government websites or software to recommend improvements for those websites or applications.

Written by students from the New Jersey Institute of Technology for the Center for Government Interoperability, the suggestion app is free to any federal, state, or local U.S. government organization.

http://www.gov-ideas.com/subject-specific-suggestion-app.htm