Shout Out's submission has won ESRI's Young Scholar of the Year 2019 as a community driven platform intending to change the landscape of public reporting in Australia. In the majority of states, in order to report a public issue such as a fallen tree, graffiti, air pollution and the like; a member of the community would need to research who’s responsible for the issue, contact them and hope there’s infrastructure in place to handle it. The current process produces enough barriers from researching correct liaison to handling the issues to be inefficient and unlikely for a member of the community to pursue.

Shout Out intends to disrupt the current process of public reporting above and create one platform which handles it efficiently. The process involves the following stages: taking community reports; moderating them; prioritizing the issues and then allocating the tasks to the correct department in the community to assign to the appropriate member of the department. The process is achieved by using a stack of ESRI Software as detailed below.