DC311 adds Go-Go music into customer service calls – WTOP News

D.C.’s 311 telephone service will now play the District’s homegrown Go-Go music within the background whereas folks navigate the service menu.

DC311 offers a one-stop service expertise for residents and guests in search of providers and knowledge 24 hours a day and one year a yr within the District.

When folks name 311 and undergo the service request system to ask for providers like bulk pickups, pothole restore and trash removing, they may hear Go-Go alternatives created by the primary cohort of DPR’s Crank Music Program, the Workplace of Unified Communications stated.

“By means of the help of Mayor Bowser, applications like this modification the narrative and the panorama of alternatives for our younger folks, which begins to unfold positively all through the group,” DPR Director Delano Hunter stated. “This program is a technique to redirect vitality and crank out a brand new beat of hope.”

The Crank Music Program offers the D.C. youth with hands-on expertise comparable to music manufacturing, efficiency and administration of the Go-Go music. The Workplace of Unified Communications stated DC311 will get round 1.8 million calls per yr.

It’s a chance for private {and professional} improvement, optimistic engagement, ability constructing and growing a way of function for the youth.

“We’re thrilled to combine Washington DC’s official music, written and carried out by our metropolis’s extremely gifted younger folks, into the 311 expertise. It’s the good technique to incorporate the sound of DC inside the coronary heart of metropolis providers” Interim Director Karima Holmes stated.

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