A mobile phone app which helps Aberdeenshire residents report problems to the council has been named the best of its kind at a Holyrood ceremony.
Aberdeenshire Council’s IT department, who developed the myAberdeenshire app, received the award recently.
Jim Gifford, leader of Aberdeenshire Council, said: “Many congratulations to the council’s IT department on creating a highly useful and easy to use app that allows residents to keep up-to-date with important local authority news on the move.
“It also is an easy way for the public to communicate directly with the council, such as reporting road defects or missed bin collections as well as allowing people to carry out tasks such as paying for their children’s school meals at a touch of a button.”
Nicola Graham, Aberdeenshire Council’s ICT head, added: “We created the app in response to increasing demand from residents, for access to information and services where and when they needed it.
“It puts their information in their hands, so we called it myAberdeenshire.”
Mobile phone app designed to help Aberdeenshire residents wins national award
