Government app

Clip from Apple advertisment廣告:

“What’s great about the iPhone, is that if you want to check snow conditions on the mountain, there’s an app for that.”

And if you want to govern治理 an island nation of 60m people in the North Atlantic there's an app that can help with that - only so far it's available to only one man - British prime minister David Cameron. The app has been developed by an 18-month-old small company in South London.

It crawls爬 the web and other sources資源 providing live data on the jobs market, housing and other key indicators指標 relevant to government. It also tracks social media sources such as Facebook and Twitter, providing insight眼光 on what voters are thinking.

The app is provisionally暫時 known as the Number 10 Dashboard, a reference to the address of the prime minister's official residence at 10 Downing Street in London. The plan is to make the app more widely available within government once it is perfected. The prime minister is said to have it loaded on his iPad.

Clip from Apple advertisment:

“Yep, there’s an app for just about anything.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2012/11/121109_witn_government_app.shtml