GreYeo: Community Based Internet Communication in Yeoville

posted by Ismail Farouk at Monday, October 01, 2007

The Yeoville Yahoo Group called GreYeo represents a successful case study of a community based internet communications system. The group was established in 1999 and boasts 139 active members.

The importance of GreYeo is the information being communicated around urban management, service delivery, crime and general community news. More recently, some members have been mapping garbage on street corners and this action has placed the city utility companies under pressure to provide better services.

The group demonstrates a positive social capital resource in a suburb considered as lacking in community ownership. It proves that there are many people who love and care for the suburb but their actions need to be reciprocated.

As a new feature to this site, I have added the Yahoo GreYeo RSS feed to my news page. Check out my news page to see what Yeovillites have so say.

Labels: Citizenship, Communication, Community, GreYeo, Internet, social capital, social networks, urban research, Yeoville