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?
why would that mean it has to be open source? Should we be open sourcing all our defece projects too?
It’s a transport app. Not the code to the nuclear defences.
Security by obscurity doesn’t exist, so perhaps yes.
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.
Public money of one jurisdiction shouldn’t necessarily pay for things so a different jurisdiction gets them for free. It’s an opportunity for the city to generate some revenue to offset other costs. Or it could be structured as a non-profit effort to develop open source, paid by ongoing grants from a number of cities that would use it - that would be nice, but difficult to orchestrate .
Open source defeces projects do sounds pretty shit.
Proprietary app, run by Trafi, a company that advertises itself as selling “mobility as a service”.
No thanks.
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.
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.
Link to the app since it wasn’t directly linked in the article.
