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The city of Oslo has created an app that enlists children as ‘secret smartphone agents’ to encourage them to walk and cycle to school and record traffic problems.
The Traffic Agent app encourages children to go undercover to report dangerous intersections, damaged pavements, overgrown bushes, broken street lamps or illegally parked cars.
The GPS-tracked app, which links the city directly to children’s safety concerns, has been such a success that officials are planning to roll it out across the rest of Norway.
