YoVeoVeo

An application to connect Citizens with the Government

Nehiver Carrion

Pedro Mancero

Computing, Systems Engineering

Polytechnic School of Chimborazo
Quito, Ecuador
Email: info@yoveoveo.com

Computing, Systems Engineering

National Polytechnic School
Quito, Ecuador
Email: info@yoveoveo.com

Abstract YoVeoVeo is a smartphone application that was

developed as a citizen tool that allows them to report incidents in
their neighborhood or city that are causing discomfort, these
incidents can be of any kind that require Public Works,
Transport Attention, Health Attention, etc. The application also
sends the collected data to a database that is administered
through www.yoveoveo.com and where the government manages
incidents.
Keywords Tool; citizen; report; incidents; discomfort; public;
works; government; e-goberment, smartphone.

I.

INTRODUCTION

Every day, citizens find problems, incidents or situations

that can be improved in their neighborhood or city, report these
incidents can be a bit complicated, the government currently
provides conventional tools such as phone numbers or emails,
however, should not be ignored that some government agencies
use social networks to receive situations that affect citizenship,
that might be a modern way, but, there is not exist a tool that
the citizenship use easily when they has a smart phone with a
camera and GPS location, which when integrated into an
application and in an administrative platform greatly facilitate
government intervention.
II.

DESCRIPTION OF APPLICATION

The YoVeoVeo application designed for smartphones

facilitates interaction between citizens and government using
as main support photography, GPS location, and Twitter;
application canalize the report to the relevant government
agency, it is not necessary that the user has an account on
Twitter, or addresses detail, making them easier to use. Further,
the application sends each report to a database where the
government entity has access via a web interface to manage
them. The government entity, in this interface can monitor in
real time through a heat map where their will find the highest
frequency of reports and give better directed attention. These
tools, mobile application and web application provide support
integrating society and government with an easy
communication that allows government entities to attend
situations that resolved provide a better quality of life to
citizens.

We have taken open sources of information provided by the

government as GPS location Community Police Units to
facilitate the government management reports according to the
location and frequency of reporting. Similarly, we used the
GPS location of Integrated Transport Stops, Integrated
Terminals, and Suburban Terminals location, so in the same
way, we expected the government use cross information that
allows better manage the resources that the entity intended to
use to solve a particular incident. The sources of information
with the GPS data available from the government can be used
in different ways, they open a range of possibilities to cross this
information with the provided by the citizens.
The application was created to be used by all age groups
who have a smartphone and want to collaborate with the
community, seeking to improve the quality of life of his
neighborhood. The application is free, which should encourage
people to install, additionally, active Twitter and Facebook
campaigns invite the public to be part of a community that
seeks to improve their quality of life. Through social networks
we kept informed of the attention that the government has
managed, helping to spread the interest in the citizens.
III.

BEHIND THE APPLICATION

The YoVeoVeo application is based on the markup

language standard of HTML5, which allows us through a set of
Apis for devices, Apache Cordova [1], distribute this
application for almost all the mobile operating systems on the
market today. The application uses the library LeafLet [2] for
the management of the location on a map, this library provides
us with a native interaction with mobile devices, the map data
are taken from the world's largest source of free maps,
OpenStreetMap [3].

REFERENCES
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The Apache Software Foundation: Apache Cordova. Version 3.6. Austin

Texas: Hyatt Regency, c2015. Device APIs.
V. Agafonkin: LeafLet. Version 0.8. Kiev Ukraine: CloudMade, c2010.
JavaScript library for mobile interactive maps.
OpenStreetMap contributors: OpenStreetMap. Open map data.

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