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To establish transparency and accountability, American cities have begun launching electronic data dashboards that collect all information about crimes, the performance of law enforcement agencies, and make facts available to their citizens to keep them informed of the work progress and make them part of the decision-making process.
Because the quality of roads is a major factor in the safety of their users, several countries, such as the United Kingdom and Lithuania, have started using advanced technologies to make road inspections and maintenance easier and more efficient. Drones, artificial intelligence, sensors, and modern high-resolution cameras that can cover hundreds of thousands of kilometres and reach where humans fail are the most prominent of these technologies.
To improve property assessment and control related violations, as well as reduce attempts to evade paying full tax fees, local authorities in various European and American cities and towns have resorted to the use of aerial imagery supported by artificial intelligence and machine learning and other modern technologies to inspect and evaluate properties, and then impose appropriate tax fees on their owners.
Following the footsteps of other countries' successful digital experiences, Indonesia is working to create a unified electronic medical record system that includes individual health history, and allows information to be easily shared between health facilities, referenced and updated at any time.
Cities around the world are joining the race to digitize public services. A trend, which has recently emerged to enable people to document and conduct major events and transactions in their lives remotely through digital platforms that bring together several government services via a single portal such as in the United States and Singapore.