I think the article is a good starting point, would be interested to hear your thoughts Ed Dunn on some potential weaknesses. One from citizen reporting side and two from a politician accountability side.

For the first one, what would be the standards for determining if an issue is legitimate/should be prioritized? If someone creates a bot or intentionally writes non valid issues through the system it would delegitimize it. For example if someone reported a leaf on the sidewalk. Would the community vote and need to achieve a certain thresh hold for the issue to be raised in priority? Otherwise if everything is written to the blockchain and then politicians/government workers see non relevant issues, it would damage the integrity of the system.

Second, what is the incentive for politicians to implement the system? If politicians are actively discriminating on which areas of city to improve/maintain, they have no reason to create the system.

Lastly, what change would this information lead to? The data can just be ignored by politicians like how it currently is. If politicians get penalized in some sort of way that would be an interesting solution, ie if an area has a maintenance/improvement score below x then the politician needs to act otherwise they will need to bring it below some level.

This can lead to a problem of a community (regardless of how well they are off) to over report issues in order to punish/oust a politician they don’t like whether it is the mayor or city councillor. This allows a few number of people, to control politics regardless.

Thoughts?