Citizenship Leadership - Website Functionality

Website Design and Functionality

The main website javul.org is a generic task-management system that can be used to improve any project. Many projects need their own specialized software which is why the Javul Information Technology Group exists. This section will describe some specifics of this performance-based system.

Regular citizens should be able to report issues, give ideas and complete tasks and objectives. The system should be able to recognize and reward those who engage in these valuable activities.

Elected leaders should be able to examine all of this activity by citizens and take action on it. Citizens should be able to monitor the activity of our leaders and provide important feedback when needed.

Possible Names: CitiLead

All users of the site (Citizens and Leaders) can take part in these activities:

• Communication: Forum, Chat
• Wiki editing ( ---- needs more specifics... wiki editing for what other objects)
• Issue Reporting (with discussion and wiki-enabled editing)
• Objectives and Tasks (with discussion and wiki-enabled editing)

Here are some differences between citizens and government officials:

• Citizens can add new leader profiles to the website (profiles can be later claimed by those leaders).
• 'Govt Officials' will be flagged in the system as 'Government Official' (there will be a verification process for a change in status for both directions)
• Govt Officials have extra data fields attached to their profiles: Actions (or another word). These can be created by themselves or by Citizens
• Citizens can audit and review the actions/activities of government officials.

Views of the Website:

• Home page - Show ongoing activity globally, as well as locally (based on login profile settings or detected IP address)
• Best Leaders - showcase our most passionate, driven and hard-working leaders. We can view leaders for all categories combined or specific categories

Next:

• Main components ...
• Focus on activities:
  • Follow through 'add activity' that a citizen will do for a leader.
  • Activity Types
• Issues, Objectives, Tasks, Activities: All have data type 'engagement level' which can be of these types: Neighborhood, City, State, National, International ---- redundant classification? Or Unit
• Categories of Activities (Environment, Crime, Consumer protection etc. There are a lot of them)
• Action Types (these apply to leaders only or... not?): Bill Creation, ... what else?