Good work. Less reliance on american shite, labour council doing something that benefits british people, using public funds to fund public benefitting programs. In Kent however under Reform they invented 40 million of savings and spent over one third of the cost to create this app (1.5million) on a single private car park for themselves.
We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps
Submitted 15 hours ago by borusa@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wx97jv7qeo
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Ash@piefed.social 14 hours ago
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
Proprietary app, run by Trafi, a company that advertises itself as selling “mobility as a service”.
No thanks.
meejle@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
A new £4m transport app […] which has now been downloaded more than 5,000 times
I know it has to start somewhere, but still, I can’t help being tickled that it’s currently costing £800 per user.
florge@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Link to the app since it wasn’t directly linked in the article.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
I presume this £4m app paid for by the public purse is open source so that we can all see and benefit from it? Anyone got a link?
Gargantuan@piefed.social 13 hours ago
why would that mean it has to be open source? Should we be open sourcing all our defece projects too?
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
It’s a transport app. Not the code to the nuclear defences.
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
That might not be practical. But everything else done with public money should be open source. A lot of these software projects are more or less necessary for every city globally. Collaborating on a few apps and programmes is a lot more sensible then everyone having an app custom build by a contractor.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 9 hours ago
Security by obscurity doesn’t exist, so perhaps yes.
Hegar@fedia.io 13 hours ago
Open source defeces projects do sounds pretty shit.