GoBituary

Florida Community Innovation is empowering volunteers to create an app called GoBituary (like an obituary, but on-the-go!) and run associated outreach programs for community historical education and enrichment.

This webapp walks the community through history at the level of individual lives, engaging visitors with multi-media histories about the individuals buried in cemeteries. People can explore the project from home at this link – all the histories currently up are from our pilot in Miami: https://www.gobituary.app

This project leverages the power of the arts (specifically storytelling) for community building, with the hypothesis that educating community members about history could prompt them to feel more connected to their community and more civically engaged.

We need YOUR help. We have histories about the famous people buried in the Miami City Cemetery – but we want to remember and include as many people as possible from cemeteries around the world, including those whose histories were unwritten…until now.

Start researching and unearthing history! Just fill out the datasheets for this project.