Por mi Barrio Citizen Reporting Platform
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Montevideo's 'Por mi Barrio', built by NGO DATA Uruguay on mySociety's FixMyStreet and launched August 2014 with Avina/Omidyar funding, let residents map potholes, blocked drains and cleaning issues, feeding the city's complaint system — 1,101 reports (49% about cleanliness) in year one. Later reaching Rivera, Río Negro and Maldonado, it closed in 2022.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →📊 Impact
1,101 citizen reports in its first year (Aug 2014–Aug 2015), 49% of them about street cleaning; the app accounted for roughly 5% of all reports the council received.
🎓 Lesson
A civic-tech NGO tool that succeeded into obsolescence: DATA retired it in 2022 once the city's own digital government systems could reproduce its functions and integrate them into open-data standards.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Por mi Barrio Citizen Reporting Platform” — Montevideo, Uruguay. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/montevideo-neighborhood-portal/ (last verified 2026-07-19). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.