Quality of life in cities is highly dependent on the state of public infrastructure. Maintenance of the infrastructure is managed by the local government that needs to be informed about issues on the infrastructure. Although the duty of maintenance staff is to check the state of the infrastructure, it is difficult to know about all the problems in the city. Therefore, citizens can take the initiative and participate by reporting any issue on public infrastructure. Today, citizens have many options on how to report such issues, due to modern communication technologies. Citizen reporting systems, which are a special type of participatory technology, deserve deeper research due to its novelty in the information system research. In this article, we introduce the study of 13 Czech regional capitals and their reporting systems. In this study, we evaluate the existence of different types of communication channels (phone, e-mail, electronic form, WebGis, and mobile application) and their quality based on four criteria (searchability, coverage of issues, visual geolocation, and display of sent reports). Moreover, the results of regional capitals will be compared with previous research on cities in these regions.
The boom of digital technologies brought new communication channels into reporting of non-emergency incidents at the municipal level. This means that citizens have more options on how to contact their city officials but more options also mean higher complexity on both sides. Citizens need to know what channels are available and how to use them and responsible city officials need to observe more channels, which is time demanding. Since the research of non-emergency citizen reporting (NECR) systems is in its infancy, we introduce the study of 13 Czech regional capitals and their systems. In this study, we evaluate the existence of different types of NECR communication channels (phone, e-mail, electronic form, WebGis, and mobile application) and their quality based on four criteria (searchability, coverage of issues, visual geolocation, and display of sent reports).
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