Overview

§B · Presentation

An introduction to Citizen Report.

The one-button reporting application: what it does and the rules it keeps.

The same report, start to finish, as a short film recorded from this page. It has no sound.

True today

Source:this website

The problem is coordination, not capability.

People who help are everywhere in Vietnam. What does not yet exist is one place where the help is coordinated.

Proposed

Source:the proposal to the Vietnamese Partner Group

A person opens it, slides to start, records fifteen to thirty seconds, and a dispatcher sees an assessed incident.

A report shows its real state and nothing beyond it. There are three things it can say.

Received by the service

Your report

Received.

The service has it. Waiting for a dispatcher.

  1. Recorded
  2. Sent
  3. Looking
  4. Decision
Done

Citizen ReportExample

A dispatcher is looking

Your report

Being looked at.

A dispatcher is looking now.

  1. Recorded
  2. Sent
  3. Looking
  4. Decision
Done

Citizen ReportExample

A dispatcher has decided

Your report

Decision made.

A dispatcher has confirmed your report and asked for a response. We cannot tell you when it will arrive.

  1. Recorded
  2. Sent
  3. Looking
  4. Decision
Done

Citizen ReportExample

At every step the report shows only what has actually been recorded: received, being looked at, a decision made. Nothing says help is on its way before that is true.

Designed, not built

Source:Citizen Report's rules

  1. Report

  2. Terra

    Assessed

  3. A person decides

  4. A unit is sent

  5. Handover

Receipt, assessment, decision and response are separate recorded events. The marked step is the one a person makes.

Designed, not built

Source:the design rules for responders' screens

The rules it keeps

  • The app decides nothing

  • The video never leaves the phone

  • Honest status, always

  • No identity, no account

  • Built for an old phone on a slow connection

  • No text messages

Terra

This is the proposal. Vietnam leads what is Vietnamese. Tourist SOS provides what is technical. Nothing is operating yet.

Each sheet prints as one page.

Designed, not built

Source:Citizen Report's rules