City of Waterloo Website
It’s your City. It’s your website. The goal of this site is to make the City’s website the best it can be. Share your ideas with us and the community. Feel free to add to, vote and comment on what’s already here. After all, you know best.
48 results found
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Customizable website with mobile support
Ability to enter my address or postal code and see all relavent information to me.
Garbage collection day
Taxes with ability to pay
Councillor of my ward with contact info
in the winter status of my city - also tracking snow clearing on a google map. How much salt is being put down!Mobile support as well - focus on a Blackberry App to support RIM
10 votes -
Provide Open Data
The city should make all municipal data available for download and reuse. This will make city operations more transparent, accountable, and effective, as well as allowing others to access data and make value-added services from this. Numerous cities across Canada (Ottawa, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal) have had great success with making data of all types open. Take a look at the City of Edmonton initiative and think of what Waterloo could provide: https://data.edmonton.ca/
21 votes -
Online voting for municipal elections
Encourage more active participation, and increase turnout at the polls
2 votes -
Create one website.
How do people even know how to get to waterloo.uservoice.com? How would the public learn that there are suggestions here? Add to this the confusion of citywaterlooblog.com versus city.waterloo.on.ca. Use consistent branding and site names. At least three different sites! where there should be just one.
22 votes -
Encourage and post all feedback even if it might be critical of city services
Democracy supports uncensored debate among its members. This site should not filter or moderate submissions from its citizens even if they are critical of city services or staff. How else can the city improve unless it removes its hands from its ears. How else can we admit to what needs improvement and seek suggestions and alternatives from an educated and involved public? Don't let this site become just a PR vehicle. If that is all that it is, there will be no compelling reason to come back to it.
33 votes -
have a website and community portal accessible to everyone
I suggest have a website and social network accessible and user friendly to everyone similar to my hometown of Chatham Kent. which can be found at www.chatham-kent.ca and the social network at http://inck.ca/. I also encourage you to consider rebranding. Credibility online is very important. Your website, blog, and if you choose to do a social network, it all needs to be on one site.
1 vote -
Redesign the city logo
It's outdated and looks like the No Frills logo, or No-Name Brand. Yellow is not a calming colour and is very hard on the eyes when viewed on the web. This is embarrassing for a progressive city.
Seriously.
6 votes -
Easy and simple navigation for job postings and volunteer postings on website
Not having to open so many pages/files to view job postings and/or volunteer postings. It would be nice to have all the content at one place, easily viewed and accessed by the public.
5 votes -
We should be able to add suggestions even if run out of votes
I like many of the ideas suggested by others here. But after I voted to support them, I found out that I couldn't suggest ideas of my own. How dumb is that! Voting and suggesting should be independent activities.
8 votes -
Start up a City newsletter
Set up a city newsletter that can be distributed at city facilities and mailed out to homes and businesses. It would include city news and information for residents.
4 votes -
Smartphone friendly website
I hardly ever use my computer. I'd like the website to work on my smartphone (blackberry, android or iphone)
36 votes -
Set up computer kiosks at City facilities so people who visit can access the internet
Have one or two computer terminals set up in city facilities so residents can access the internet and access city info, news and give feedback. Some with customer service surveys would be good.
3 votes -
should not duplicate information available elsewhere, e.g. Grand River Transit
Just point to the original information ( perhaps seamlessly take the user to that website)
2 votes -
Allow the ability to pay for property taxes, events and fines
Would like the ability to pay for property tax, fines (eg. parking tickets) online. But also the ability to pay for courses/events such as swimming lessons.
17 votes -
A robust search
that understands common phrases, language as opposed to municipal terms
18 votes -
Would like to have Calendar of Events
The calendar of events page will allow users to see upcomming events that are happening in the area. Videos, images of the event could be shown to showcase what the event is about.
13 votes -
4 votes
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Would like to see a business directory
Would like the ability to search for business such as restaurants or shopping. Would be great to have maps showing how to get to these business from your home.
7 votes -
Make the City website multi-lingual
The city needs to support multi-lingual. We have people from various parts of the world come here and it would be nice to be able to read in their native language (for example, Mandarin, Gujarati, Spanish, etc.)
5 votes -
Allow users to upload images to a gallery for people to see
The site should have a gallery that allows users to post images of our great city. Perhaps make a contest for the best image.
1 vote
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