OneService app adds new features

Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu announced yesterday at the OneService Innovation Challenge that the Municipal Services Office is working with SMU on a new crowdsourcing app – HelpBuddy – to encourage active citizenry and promote neighbourliness. Partners of OneService and residents can put up simple activities on HelpBuddy for the community to take part. For instance, the National Heritage Board would like the public to share their memories of heritage sites in Singapore. In the coming months, more activities will be introduced in the HelpBuddy app, such as working with SG Cares for neighbours to share simple tools and equipment, and for needy residents to seek voluntary medical escorts. The pilot HelpBuddy app is in its beta phase. If successful, it will be incorporated as a module in the OneService App.