Neil Kuruppu
PepperStack Pty Ltd
CEO
Australia

Biography
Neil is the CEO of PepperStack and the Managing Director of Signal Processing Know-how (SPK). He has a background in Defence having worked for most of his career in both the UK and Australia to offer strategic solutions in the industry. Neil is a visionary who is now focussed on using his experiences and knowledge to solve complex social and community problems world-wide.

In January 2010 Neil launched an award-winning smartphone enabled service called NeatStreets to seamlessly communicate public defects to organisations based on area-of-responsibility. With the rapid acceptance of NeatStreets in Australia, Neil is now focussed on spreading this technology solution across the globe.

Abstract
NeatStreets The Next Generation Community Service

The purpose of the paper is demonstrate how NeatStreets is enabling people across the country to report on community issues without the need to have situational awareness, (i.e. removing the need for users to know where they are reporting from, and where the report needs to be delivered to). Issues such as Potholes, Litter, Graffiti/Tagging, Vandalism, Footpath Issues, Traffic Hazards, Obstructions, and Lost Trolleys can be reported.

This methodology puts in evidence a unique mechanism for deploying national infrastructure by creating a layer of abstraction between communicating entities.