Geolocated Alert Services on E-Government Based on Messagge Oriented Middleware

Abstract

Uruguay is one of the most advanced countries on E-Government of the region. Citizens can interact with a lot of public offices through web sites or email, among others. In the last years there have been advances on e-identity and realtime massive communications, for example by Twitter. In the business sector there are several offers on Location Based Services: such as meal deliveries or community mobile applications (for example as citycop). Some goverment agencies are already generating geolocalized alerts, but they communicate them through general channels like web sites. This work proposes an extention of the existing E-Government Platform, with a MOM-based component that allows any public office to send location-based notices and alerts. This permits that citizens subscribe to topics of interest, and receive only the notifications of their interest given that they are in the affected area.