What is Politopio?
Politopio is a mobile platform of selected Smartpolis features focused on improving citizens’ connections with their communities while municipal staff and designated officials become better informed and more responsive to citizen feedback.
Politopio provides public access for municipal announcements/news, alerts, travel guides, transit schedules, waste collection dates, and more. In addition, this app also facilitates citizens’ engagement with the ability to report crime and infrastructure damages, search and apply for jobs, permits, or even rental properties with a citizen account.
Images of Politopio’s Home page and News page
How Does Politopio Work?
Politopio works in congregation with CoreBase. CoreBase is the centralized work-order management system enabling municipal employees to work remotely while maintaining access to all pertinent documentation and direct communication to the citizens while being under full management transparency and reporting.
CoreBase is directly connected to Politopio, the smartphone platform, and is fed directly from the requests requiring municipal attention and action to be taken. These types of requests can involve all types of permits, reports, issuance of certifications/documents and can be tied to location-based data.
CoreBase is also directly connected to the How-To section that manages and coordinates the municipal administration process streamlining the completion of requests/reports between CoreBase and Politopio—making it a centralized engine for Citizen-Municipality interaction and process management.
Images of Politopio’s Ticket page and Reporting page
Why Politopio?
Politopio is a fully customizable smartphone app for citizen use. Within these apps, cities can customize appearance and features, such as city services, requests/reporting, voting, job postings and more. In addition, each city can customize the app based on imagery, colours, fonts, and the city’s modules within their app. Combining a sleek and user-friendly interface with the variety of customization options of this smartphone app makes Politopio an excellent choice for cities of all sizes and needs.
According to the United Nations forecast, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. Furthermore, 70% of human beings are set to live in urban centers by 2050. Citizens nowadays expect a lot from their cities, and they want to get provided with robust, user-friendly digital services. Collaboration tools, intuitive websites, self-service portals, and mobile applications have become standard in every facet of life, and citizens expect no less from their city. Expanding digital services in society can make the city more attractive for the people to reside in it.
Moreover, accessible government data, interactive maps, government performance dashboards, live-streamed city hall meetings, and active social media presences all assist smart cities in promoting a citizen-government relationship. Each of these points helps in increasing civic engagement and building trust in city officials.
