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Last night, hours after the budget was announced and the day before a confidence vote could throw Canadians back into an election, over a dozen people gathered at Idée in the city's east end to change the way citizens communicated with their government, whether it be at a municipal, provincial, or federal level. Frustrated by the slow adoption of technology in collecting and tracking street-level issues, the group of developers, entrepreneurs, and communicators set out to develop an easy-to-use site for citizens to alert needs to the government and to each other. Inspired by the British site Fix My Street.com, the project, code-named Shamen, could help report problems that often get shoved to the backburner, such as a growing pothole in a decaying road or an unclear or misdirecting sign that confuses elderly citizens. (While small, these everyday problems accumulate and can create a nagging perception that the government is unable to—or unwilling to—respond to immediate issues.)