GovChat App: Connecting Citizens with Government Services
GovChat App has become one of the powerful tools that was created in South Africa in the year 2016 to bridge the communication gap between government and their citizens. Even though the app was created in South Africa, the app has received wide usage in other countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and in Kenya.
The app has come to stay because with time, citizens expect to be able to interact with their governments, asking questions and receiving answers in real time. This is something that was far from reality because of communication bureaucracy involved in holding government agencies accountable.
Being in a digital era, governments have no option than to employ communication technology tools to enhance interaction with the citizenry. This app, the GovChat makes such interactions safe, convenient and user-friendly.
What is GovChat App?
GovChat App is an interactive tool that give the opportunity for governments to interact with their citizens through other third party apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and others.
What the app does is to give citizens a very simple but effective means to have access to the services offered by government agencies. These agencies are passport offices, social security offices, various licenses and more.
How does GovChat work?
The app works through other third party apps. Because of that, it is easy to have correspondence. To make use of GovGhat, simply add GovChat to your contacts on all your other messaging apps that you already use. These could be Whatsapp, Messenger or any other messaging app. Once this goes through, you can now send a message to your government agency that you wish to reach.
There will be a response from the agency to your request. You can follow the prompts that you receive to have your issue resolved. In case you need to speak to an agent of the agency too, you will have the chance through the app.
Benefits of using GovChat
The major gain from using the GovChat is that the gap between governments and their citizens is bridged. Because of its convenience, it is very accessible and people can interact with various agencies from the comfort of their homes.
Since it makes use of the internet, it is always accessible 24/7.
One other benefit that the app brings to stakeholders, government agencies and to citizens is to provide a one stop shop for issues to be addressed.
Furthermore, time and money is saved as people don’t have to join long queues and pay needless fess to access policies and licenses.
Lastly, the app provides the avenue for government to improve on how they become accountable to their citizens
Conclusion
In short, with GovChat governments have been able to streamline their response to issues from their citizens. They have become more effective and efficient as they use this powerful and user-friendly too. With time, it has become used in many other countries and is likely to be adopted by even more.