As more and more local councils attempt to move transactional traffic from their costly call centres to online, new solutions to enable members of the public to contact their council online or via their smartphones are springing up on a weekly basis. As anyone who has been involved with a business change project will know,Read… Read more »
We know that developers will be looking to reuse open data for the OS Open Data and OS Open Space Challenge (not the only challenge, see here for the other one!) for ourcompetition event. So we asked @vacantimouse from ScraperWiki to describe what a tool that enables people to reuse and refine open data. ManyRead… Read more »
A guest blog by @ricroberts, CTO of Swirrl, creators of PublishMyData.com: The award winning Linked Data Publishing platform. Studies around open data often focus on the “armchair auditor”, and although these people do exist they are just a small contingent of those who could benefit from good open data. When considering the audience for openRead… Read more »
Just saw this tweet by @mat_hunter the Chief Design Officer at the @DesignCouncil. I went to the first event of the Inspire Connect series hosted by the Design Council and organised by @amandagore and her @dcchallenges team as part of it’s “Living Well with Dementia” Challenge Competition. 1. The issue of dementia is very personalRead… Read more »
One wonderful idea submitted for Developing Solutions Camp is ‘Feeling Local’. The idea is to aggregate news feeds from social media for a given geographical area and analyse the sentiments to determine whether the prevailing mood for that area is happy or sad. How best to use it The originator of the idea is confidentRead… Read more »
There’s still time to sign up for the Kent Connects Developing Solutions Camp on 25 November in Gravesend and help design or develop prototypes for selected ideas. Find out how to get involved & register for the event here. Kent Connects competition aims to stimulate collaboration between public services, entrepreneurs and communities to develop innovativeRead… Read more »
An initiative by Civic Commons is set to establish Open311 as the global open standard for civic issue tracking. Open311 is an API that will interface with local authority CRM systems, and enable applications developed independently then to link in with the CRM. It is also one of the elements that we will be workingRead… Read more »
First published at Social Reporters. As we’re preparing for our innovation camp, we’ve been reflecting on how we can stimulate collaboration between entrepreneurs, students andcommunities. Having just seen the impressive Civicrowd being used in South Holland (to my surprise, it’s in England) developed by @davebriggs and it provoked a couple of thoughts as I wasRead… Read more »
We often talk about how we can empower digital entrepreneurs/developers/geeks, etc to develop the new apps to support our communities or transform our services, but like any change in culture of how we interact between councils and local people with skills, it can take time…even a generation. We have @hubmum‘s excellent “Coding for Kids” initiative,Read… Read more »
We’ve invited James Togut from The Good Life For All to guest blog for us as the winner of the best idea for the “Help People Help Each Other” Challenge in our Competition (if you were thinking the competition is over, think again, we’ve now launched the second half which is for designers and developersRead… Read more »