local innovation workshop
DESCRIPTION
Do you have ideas on how you can improve your local area…using the web or other technologies? Do you want to get together with others to see how you can turn these ideas into new online services…in just a day? Where these prototypes can be showcased to organisations looking for new ways of meeting challenges we face?TRANSCRIPT
Local Innovation Workshop
Getting local digital innovators together for a day to develop
prototypes of online tools that tackle challenges we set them
What do we mean?
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Why are we doing this?
• Personalising services to suit people’s needs
• Adapting to disruptive use of technologies
• Unlocking local talent to build digital economy
How will it work?Get local people with digital skills together… …to brainstorm ideas based on our challenges
…develop prototypes on their ideas …that they can showcase at the end of the day
• Help people help each other?
• Complement our web/mobile services?
What challenges shall we set?
• Accessing services?
• Connecting people?
• Finding information?
• Reporting problems?
What are the benefits for them?
Online tools created at similar types of event
What are the benefits for us?
Online tool created at similar type of event Same online tool a few months later
• Showcase local expertise
• See what ideas can fly
• See what tools & techniques could work for our services
What will you pledge?
• Help plan the event
• Identify local innovators you know
• Take part on the day