Nominated for top 40 civic innovation

A major challenge takes place in Canterbury this autumn that aims to bring communities together to develop innovative ways of using technology to improve their neighbourhoods. We’re asking local people to put forward their ideas for projects and brings them together with local developers to find technology solutions.

Activities

Timeline

• People submit ideas online9 Sep – 19 Oct

• People pitch ideas at Digibury Weekender18 October

• Judges review top 10 ideas20 Oct – 22 Oct

• People prototype solutions to ideas23 Oct – 29 Nov• People get together to finalise & showcase prototypes to

judges who award prizes29 Nov

• Support winners to help them take their solutions forward1 Dec – 31 Mar

Overview

Bring together different groups to tackle local challenges

Prototype ideas and solutions that can be taken forward

Help take forward the projects to deliver impact

Students

Designers

Public servants

Local residents

Entrepreneurs

Local groups

We bring together different groups…

…to tackle local challenges

Communicating the evidence Describing a day in the life

Mapping the user journey Framing the opportunity

…using creative methods

Prototype ideas…

That deliver social impact and help people help each other

Brainstorming ideas Using new technologies

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Developing the functionality Simulating the service

Validating the usability Designing the interaction

…to design solutions

Marketing the value proposition Developing the project

Creating the business model Measuring the impact

Evaluate their impact…

…to inform community insights

…and embed learning

…to help take forward projects

+15 partners +400 participants

+150 insights +30 prototypes

+£100K investment raised

Partners Issues Motivations

Principles Prototypes Sustainability

Previous winners

2011 – Customer Transformation• Help young people understand & tackle bullying• Leveraged £90K to roll out across several schools

2012 – The Sunshine Bank• Reward civic activity with a new social currency• Launched website integrating social network tools

2013 – Smoking Chimney (Kemuri)• Create connected sensor service to reduce dehydration• Shortlisted for Nominet Trust & EIT ICT Labs Challenge

Previous partners

Support Programme

Winners each get assigned a coach who can help them make the best use of the programme

Winners come up with joint challenges they want help with. Local people invited to fortnightly /monthly meetups to help them tackle challenges in an hour.

Winners choose what support they need from the Silver Level Sponsorship and receive 1:1 support from the relevant sponsor

Winners meet up with Working Group every fortnight to showcase and peer review each other’s progress

To help people take forward the solutions developed, we will develop a support programme where participants can choose what specialist support they require, complemented by collaborative activities with other participants & sponsors.

Research: Help carry out market & user research to understand and target potential customers

Business: Help develop a business model & plan to pitch to investors and make the solution sustainable

Service design: Help support in designing the end to end service for the solution

Communications: Help develop a communications plan & branding to promote the solution

Coaching: Help coach the team / person to take their solution forward

Support (continued)We also provide personalised support:

Graphic & web design: Help provide graphic or web design support for the solution

Web & software development: Help provide development or programming support for the solution

User testing: Help test the solution with users using human-computer interaction

Digital making: Help advise how to make the best use of 3D printing and other digital making

Other (contact us with your ideas for how you could help)

Support (continued)

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noel.hatch@kent.gov.uk