USING DIGITAL YANGON APPLICATION, CAN INFORM ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS OF SIX TOWNSHIPS IN YANGON

By using Digital Yangon Application, we can send information about Water pipeline problems, Rubbish problems, illegally vehicle parking, and broken roads having in six townships in Yangon. In relating to this application, a press conference was held at Kyauktada General Administrative Office on 23rd Aug 2019 in Yangon. The townships that can be sent information are Kyauktada, Pasontaung, Botathaung, Lammadaw and Papaedan townships, and this Digital Yangon Application can be installed from play store.

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This application is one of the processes of E-Government implemented by the ministries according to the Government project plan. When using this app for reporting, users have to register an application with their phone number and also can use photographs for the condition of environmental problems for reporting. For this report, official duty persons will take responsibly as fast as possible to repair and will reply message from this application.

We heard that there are over thousands of users who install this app from the time of beginning this Digital Yangon Application but there are many reporters who report incompatible data and, for some right report information have been solved. Moreover, now only five events can be reported and later, it is trying to be solved all environment problems effectively at all townships in the Yangon division.

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Now, information can be reported by taking photos are only about main problems of water pipeline breakage, water pipeline leakage,dispose waste materials and rubbish in municipality area,broken power lines,cutting of electric wires,illegal stop of cars,unserviceable old cars and non-licensed cars parking,broken roads and broken payment platforms.

Creators of this application have designed to save top-up amount while using this Digital Yangon Application and, if taking photos of things that want to report using this app, it will showplace of taking photos automatically by the additional system of this app.

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In this application, we can find and read about the hot news and information issued by Government Departmental Offices on the Main Menu displayed in English and Burmese with both Zawgyi and Unicode fonts to be compatible with all kinds of device. News and information described on the Main Menu can be participated as ”like, comment, and share” like as facebook and some of the legal law information for educational, technology, Yangon City Development Committee(YCDC) law, and privacy laws are described as document section.

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For example, for the problem of a broken water pipeline, just to take a photo of the defective point, write reference information about this problem and press the ‘send’ button to send successfully, and then one of the ticket numbers will be replied by the system. We can get the reply information from the responsible department. To use this application, we need to turn on both internet data and GPS systems.

To use this Digital Yangon App, we have to install from Google play store and have to register with the phone number. After registration using phone number, name and township address, you can log in using six digits sent as a message by the system.

Although this Digital Yangon App has been used on android devices only, it can be used now on IOS devices, too. Please enter below links and install this App ;
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dc.digitalyangon