Mobile app to collect and visualize hyperlocal infrastructure information for a community in the Amazon

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As described by the project's requestor:

The project aims to encourage the citizenship of the residents and workers of the community through connected digital mobile technologies. With the help of a mobile application, created for this purpose, users of the system can, in a geolocalized way, insert data about the infrastructure of neighborhood, feeding database with information about the infrastructure deficit in the following areas: Drinking Water; Collection and Treatment of Sewage; Street lighting; Sidewalks; Asphalt; Urban Cleaning.
The district was chosen by the project for being the second largest in population in the city of Macapá, according to current estimates the number is around 45 thousand inhabitants. Novo Horizonte has a history in community communication, since it has its community radio and has already had its community print newspaper.
Based on the contemporary concepts of hyperlocal communication, the project promotes the conversation among community members with the intention of structuring data and configure, through them, the real situation of the infrastructure provided by the public authorities to the residents of the neighborhood.
As the community itself is responsible for supplying the application with relevant data about the environment where it lives, it will commit itself to actions that pressure public entities to transform the reality of the local infrastructure, according to the demands identified as priorities.
The Lupa NH is an initiative of Professor Walter Lima, with the participation of journalism and computer science students of the Federal University of Amapá (UNIFAP), whose task is to implement elements of journalism to the hyperlocal project. The current phase of the project contemplates the modeling of the application.
The project has the support of two important transforming agents in the Novo Horizonte Community: a teacher, who runs the projects in the communication area in ​​Raimunda dos Passos School and a journalism student who is also responsible for the radio Community of Novo Horizonte.
To broadly disseminate the project and win participants, profiles are being opened on the following social networks: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This action will allow greater proximity between all those involved and greater visibility of the neighborhood Novo Horizonte, giving voice to its community to expose the reality in which it lives and in search of significant improvements in the quality of life.