In the year 2015, the State Environmental Service has invented mobile application "Vides SOS" for reporting environmental violations. A mobile application for submitting report about environmental violation is available for smartphones and processed data/task status of the reports are publicly available in the Internet. The main objective of the project is to promote the involvement of the society in solving environmental problems and increase environment responsibility and lifestyle.

The mobile app solves the problem of the information availability. For the submitter it usually it takes time to find responsible authority and the location of the proposed environmental violation. Conventional methods for the reporting about environmental complaints are phone calls, email or letter in paper form.

Both society and public sector are benefited from the use of mobile app. The main advantage of mobile app is the new method of communication between civil sector and society, that allows competent institutions to receive and process information much more faster, than using conventional information channels. Also information about proposed location is more precious, because GPS coordinates will be already available. The mobile app provides an opportunity to report environmental violations from any place in Latvia. Operative assess the precious information are main advantage for environmental inspectors.

With the "Vides SOS" mobile app it is possible to report about soil, air and water contamination, as well as various activities and significant environmental violations such as waste, illegal fishing of river and lake protection zones and other environmental risks.

The Environmental Department is planning to develop usage of mobile app and involve more public institutions to use mobile app. Municipalities, Forest Agency and Nature Conservation Agency have already involved in project, that allows access for this institutions inspectors to receive reports about proposed environmental problems regarding to their competence.