DIY communityA chat with Amplified Leicester

Katherine Hui19th May 2010

Social Innovation Camp brings together ideas, people and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems – from hacking together some software to working out how you'd sustain an idea - all in just 48 hours.

Green Thing is a public service that inspires people to lead a greener life. With the help of brilliant videos and inspiring stories from creative people and community members in 205 countries, Green Thing focuses on seven things you can do - and enjoy doing.

Today’s blueprint

• Technology to organise things differently and address social needs

• Using technology to create fundamental changes

• Engaging with stakeholders and local authorities

Using the technology to organise differently

Using the technology to address social needs

Have a Go Heroes is a web-based project that helps support carers and those cared for with simple everyday tasks.

Communities and Technology and fundamental change

• Changing the energy sector

• Community generated power

• Decentralised power systems

Technology influencing public services

Engaging with Stakeholders and funders

What about local authorities?

• A few examples and a few (unwritten) rules

The Case in Birmingham

MyPolice.org versus Mypolice.org.uk

Some things to think about

• How to address local needs

• Ways of including/ consulting ‘unamplified’individuals

• Increased collaboration and strengthening of relationships

Questions?

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