A new smartphone app has been designed to help rural residents in Saskatchewan communicate with their local municipal government offices.
The myRM smartphone application is designed to help provide contact to municipal government offices, as well as local weather conditions, weather warnings, highway conditions, emergency information, maps of rural municipalities and regional news.
Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan developed the app with Weather Innovations Consulting, which also operates WeatherFarm.
The app includes information for the 85 APAS member rural municipalities in Saskatchewan. It’s free to iPhone users and soon will be available to Android phone users.
The myRM.ca online network (http://myRM.ca) was launched by APAS in 2012 to provide APAS member rural municipalities with detailed local weather and forecasts, municipal news and agricultural events.
Partial funding has been provided by Agriculture Canada through the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP). In Saskatchewan, the program is delivered by the Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan.
