In a one-of-a-kind partnership with a mid-sized American city, U-M students have begun building information tools aimed at solving more than a dozen civic challenges identified by city officials in Jackson.
Teams will develop systems to encourage more families to vaccinate their children, to digitize cemetery records and to enable anonymous “tips by text” for the police department. Those are just a few of the 10 projects in Citizen Interaction Design, a new master’s level class in the School of Information.
