Welcome to the ‘How can we transform neighbourhoods in Britain together?’ GeoVation showcase

June 2012Ordnance SurveyExplorer HouseAdanac DriveSOUTHAMPTON

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GeoVation is Ordnance Survey’s open innovation network, that helps people bring great geography-based ideas to life. We do this by running challenges to address specific needs within communities, that may be satisfied in part, through the use of geography. We’ve previously run challenges on: ‘How can Britain feed Itself?’ and ‘How can we improve transport in Britain?’.

The ‘How can we transform neighbourhoods in Britain together?’ challenge is grounded in the need for government, business, civil society and ourselves, as individuals, having to do more with less and to do it sustainably.

The challenge was preceded by a GeoVation ‘PowWow’, (during which 16 thought leaders identified 104 real problems to be solved in seven themes and 28 insights); and a GeoVation Camp, at which shortlisted ideas were developed into prototyped ventures, grounded in those problems, and pitched to the GeoVation judging panel at the end of each camp. We were delighted with the quality of the 75 ideas submitted in response to this challenge, the 18 pitches made at the end of the camp and the 10 venture plans invited for today’s event.

During today’s showcase we will hear from the finalists of the challenge. Each finalist has submitted a venture plan, summarised in this brochure. Today they will be giving a five minute pitch to the judging panel and to you, the participating audience. Our panel will have five minutes to question each venture and questions will then be opened up to you, the participating audience.

Each finalist has a chance to win a slice of £115 000 in innovation award seed funding to start implementing their venture. There is also a £1 000 community award, voted for by you, the showcase audience today. This funding is

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provided by Ordnance Survey for the best use of Ordnance Survey products and services in addressing the challenge. In April 2010, Ordnance Survey released its free-to-use OS OpenData™ product portfolio, as well as new terms for the use of Ordnance Survey’s open application programming interface (API) OS OpenSpace®. The Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) is a new, centrally-funded agreement for the provision of our geographical data to all of the public sector in England and Wales. We are keen to see ventures make use of these resources as well as the wealth of other open government data that has been released.

Today is also an opportunity to meet, network, share and discuss how ideas and opportunities can be developed collaboratively, and to suggest how the GeoVation initiative can grow and develop further. What GeoVation challenge would you suggest next?

Making open GeoVation challenges work is dependent on the commitment, participation and collaboration of a number of other networks, organisations and individuals. We would like to thank our GeoVation sponsors (see inside back page), judging panel, chaired by Roland Harwood of 100%Open, and GeoVation PowWow and Camp facilitators, Nonon, as well as all those who helped develop the challenge (see Acknowledgments).

Most of all we would like to thank you, the growing GeoVation community, for joining the network, posting and commenting on ideas, ‘camping and pitching’, submitting ventures and venture plans; offering help; feedback, support and advice. You inspire us.

Keep GeoVating and enjoy the day!

The GeoVation Team

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Hello and a warm welcome to the ‘How can we transform neighbourhoods in Britain together?’ GeoVation showcase!

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Transforming Neighbourhoods Pow Wow participants

Ideas teams at Transforming Neighbourhoods GeoVation Camp

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Time Event Venue

09.30 – 09.45 am Finalists and judges arrive Reception

10.00 – 11.15 am Interviews with judges (15 minutes).

In between interviews there will be information on Ordnance Survey products and services available.

Judges rooms

Multifunction room

11.00 – 11.15 am Visitors arrive, refreshments Multifunction room

11.30 – 11.45 am Introduce judges Solent Theatre

11.45 – 1.00 pm Pitching – session 1

Five minutes presentation, plus five minutes judges questions and five minutes audience questions.

Solent Theatre

1.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch Balcony

1.30 – 2.45 pm Pitching – session 2

Five minutes presentation, plus five minutes judges questions and five minutes audience questions.

Solent Theatre

2.45 – 3.00 pm Delegates vote on Community Award Multifunction room

3.00 – 3.30 pm Break refreshments and networking Multifunction room

3.30 – 4.00 pm Presentation of GeoVation Awards Solent Theatre

4.00 – 4.30 pm Summary / GeoVation next steps Solent Theatre

4.30 – 6.30 pm Drinks and networking Balcony

Order Pitching Session 1 11.45 – 13:00

1 Charting the Cold-spot Keely Mills Platform PeterboroughSt John’s Development Board CIC

2 Come to your senses Emily Wilkinson, Laura Sorvala Come To Your Senses

3 Community Animation Mapping Assets and Strengths

Nick Gardham RE:generate

4 Community Payback Visibility Jason Davies Staffordshire & West Midlands Probation Trust

5 The Place Station Annemarie Naylor Locality

Order Pitching Session 2 13:30 – 14:45

6 Resident’s Green Space Mapper Paul Hodgson, Nicola Wheeler Groundwork

7 Schools in Transition Isabel Carlisle Transition Network

8 Shout Crime Matthew Green Policyworks

9 Sustaination Ed Dowding Sustaination

10 Where Next – Age UK Kay Steven Age UK, Newcastle

Agenda

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Roland Harwood (Panel Chair)Co-founder, 100%OpenRoland was formerly Director of Open Innovation at NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Graduating with a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University, he has held senior innovation roles in the Utilities and Media industries and in addition has worked with 100’s of start-ups to raise venture capital and commercialise technology.

Alison PrendivilleDeputy Director, C4DA multidisciplinary position which facilitates the convergence of the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine ) with design. C4D was listed by the Design Council and NESTA’s Multidisciplinary Design Network in 2010, as one of eight best practice case studies of multidisciplinary design collaboration. On completing her Masters in Design Management, Alison worked commercially with a number of design led companies. Her doctoral research linked engineering specification to design, service management theory and practice.

Daniel Raven-EllisonLead member The Geography Collective, Creative Director Mission:ExploreTwice winner of GeoVation Challenges, in addition to teaching in and leading school geography departments Daniel has been a writer and consultant for the BBC, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, Geographical Association and many more. An education manager at both Action Aid UK and Relief International, he left to work on projects for The Geography Collective including launching a national campaign to increase the number of children playing outdoors, an international project to (re)present cities through alternative explorations and organising a range of creative geography-based workshops.

John CarpenterHead of Product Management, Ordnance SurveyJohn’s team is responsible for the life-cycle management of the whole Ordnance Survey product range, working with Product Propositions and Product Development to ensure that the portfolio is evolving to meet the changing market. John joined Ordnance Survey from the financial services industry in 2006, where he managed a number of business-to-business products.

Marianne GuldbrandsenInnovation consultantCovering strategy, user insights and product-service development, Marianne is often involved from the early stages of project scoping, leading the ethnographic research and taking these profound insights into product and service development. She has worked with Ford, Volvo, Walt Disney, LEGO, LiveWork, Orange, Nokia, Nissan, Toyota, Samsung and Novo Nordisk. She was Head ofDesign Strategy at Design Council and holds a PhD in design innovation, focusing on how organisations handle product qualities that cannot easily be measured.

Richard BridgeHead of Consultancy, Training and Quality, Community MattersRichard managed the Community Alliance Regional Programme, working to lead and support their network of Regional Coordinators. He oversees the Visible Communities™ programme, the national accredited standard for community organisations. He helped design and oversee development of online tools: The PreVISIBLE Review and Your Value! He represents Community Matters on Steering Groups reviewing the National Occupational Standards for Community Development Workers, and drafting the national Qualification Framework for Community Development Practice and Learning.

Judging panel

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Charting the Cold-spot

Keely Mills, Project Manager, Platform Peterborough

‘Charting the cold-spot’ wishes to solve the problem of ‘loss of the High Street’, solving the problem at local level in the city of Peterborough, then spreading this solution to the rest of the UK. The scale of the problem in Peterborough is that it has a 14.7% vacancy rate compared to the national average, which is 14.5% Peterborough’s High Street is a conservation and heritage area and only one among 29 in the UK considered at risk due to the vacancy rate. The empty shop units and lack of culture, night-time activity and lack of vibrancy found in Peterborough’s central commercial area has led to vandalism and also it being considered in decline. We will solve this problem by reinvigorating empty shops and built environment assets within Peterborough’s High Street. By increasing vibrancy, energy and the cultural offer and cohesion by literally putting cultural and community cold spots on the map and highlighting and utilising their potential. Using Mary Portas’s latest review on the Hight Street as a base for this idea, the project will ask Peterborough’s community and local artists to create innovative and appealing final products that will engage people with their city.

Please check out what performances are available on www.easternangles.co.uk

Come To Your Senses – Map your experience

Emily Wilkinson and Laura Sorvala

We aim to facilitate the making of meaningful data to help make sense of our relationship with our neighbourhoods. Come To Your Senses helps people increase self-awareness and become more socially engaged by mapping experiences, emotions and stories. To date, we have visualised this kind of data in physical workshops using our creative facilitation skills. We seek funding for an app and a website that we can use together with our face-to-face workshops to take the project to more communities and build something meaningful with the data we collect. The app would collect experiences from the public as well as our workshops. The website would be used firstly to visualise rich, meaningful content in a variety of media on a map, and secondly to analyse this data (enriched by data from other sources).

For more information visit www.ctys.org.uk

Community Animation Mapping Assets and Strengths

Nick Gardham, Projects Director, RE:generate

RE:generate is an enterprising social action charity with a mission to enhance participation that catalyses change, improves lives and transforms neighbourhoods. In the current financial climate, the need for engaging, galvanising and supporting communities to tackle some of the problems that they face for themselves couldn’t be greater. Using our systematic process, Root Solution – Listening Matters, of building community capacity, we will meet 600 people from each and every identified neighbourhood in our partner authorities and we will unearth the latent strengths, skills and talents of local people. That is 60 000 new untapped resources. We will map these digitally using detailed Ordnance Survey maps on our bespoke software. Using this data we will support local people to engage with statutory services, organisations and agencies so that they can collaboratively explore how they can co-design and enhance service delivery models supporting services to deliver better for a lot less money!

For more information visit www.regeneratetrust.org

GeoVation Challenge finalists Pitching Session 1

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Community Payback Visibility

Jason Davies, Staffordshire & West Midlands Probation Trust

Community Payback is unpaid work carried out by offenders on community sentences. It must be challenging, constructive and benefit local neighbourhoods. Our idea is a free mobile app that makes it easier for the public to nominate sites for Community Payback and track progress on a website. People take a geo-tagged photo of a ‘grotspot’ and the app sends it directly to the local probation trust. Knowing the exact spot makes it easier for the trust to locate and assess the site. The probation trust would feed back on nominations and add photos of work being done, cleaned-up sites and information on the offenders’ experiences. We want to create a tapestry of local stories, all based around very specific geographic points. The benefits will be widespread. The public will feel empowered and engaged. The organisations involved will see greater efficiency, transparency and enhanced reputation. Offenders will benefit as their communities see the work they do and participate in their rehabilitation.

For more information visit www.SWMprobation.gov.uk

The Place Station

Annemarie Naylor, Head of Assets, Locality

Local people usually have strong views about the land and buildings in their community. The Place Station provides a platform where people can:

• Searchforinformationaboutspecificlandandbuildings.• Adda‘place’they’dliketoseeownedandmanagedbythecommunity.• Addanideafortransformingavailablelandandbuildings.• Establishcommunitysupporttohelpprioritisethoselistedasassetsofcommunity

value by local authorities.• Commentonandoffertosupportanideaorproposalfora‘place’.• Findpro-bonosupporterswheretheylivetohelpdeveloptheirideasand

proposals.

A ‘beta’ version has been trialled and tested (www.theplacestation.org.uk) and a new version is under development. The promoter, Locality (www.locality.org.uk), is one of the UK’s leading community sector networks and the acknowledged national expert on community asset development and community asset transfer.

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Residents’ Green Space Mapper (GEM) – Groundwork

Paul Hodgson, Head of GIS and Nicola Wheeler, Neighbourhoods Green Project Coordinator

Creatively-used and managed open spaces provide a place for people to get to know their neighbours, contribute to healthier lifestyles and provide places for children to play outside. People living in areas of disadvantage have five times less access to green space. In many areas, residents want to improve the land on their estates but don’t have a clear means to articulate their ideas. Social landlords operate in these areas and own more green space than the local authority in some urban areas. We will prototype and test a tool for use by local residents to survey their local area in collaboration with their housing association. We will create a framework around this tool to support the wider process. Many of the components to deliver the idea are in place. GeoVation funding will allow us to draw these different strands together. This is not a stand-alone venture but is a missing element of a wider package of services offered by Groundwork.

Schools in Transition: Mapping Local Communities

Isabel Carlisle

In the Transition movement we see that we are currently experiencing a ‘bumpy plateau’ at the peak of conventional oil production and urgently need to reduce global carbon emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Our pitch to GeoVation is to develop a digital online mapping tool (and large-scale printouts of Ordnance Survey maps) that define local watersheds (or river basins). On top of that, schools map the social systems that they sit in, look for the relationships that will move that system towards sustainability (like organic food growers, beekeepers, renewable energy generation and local businesses) and define a project for action in the local community. We want watersheds to enter the national consciousness and for people to take responsibility for these bio-regions, which means protecting them from pollution, seeing them as living systems, managing the natural and human resources within them well, valuing them as their basins of relations and feeling bounded once more by the natural world.

For more information visit www.transitionnetwork.org

Shout Crime

Matthew Green

There is a problem with hate-crime reporting. We know from research and from our own experience as a user-led organisation and hate-crime reporting centre that there is a huge disparity between the number of hate-crimes committed and the number of reports that make it to police or other agencies who could help. Shout Crime is our response. Through a new smartphone app and a range of social plug-ins, we want to make it easier for people to report hate-crime. We want to give people a choice of who to report to and we want to help them report sooner so they don’t feel they have to let things get really serious before telling anyone. Recognising that hate-crime is a whole community issue, we want to share hate-crime data openly to help communities monitor hate-crime in their area and develop solutions that work for them.

You can learn more at www.shoutcrime.org.uk

GeoVation Challenge finalists Pitching Session 2

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Sustaination

Ed Dowding

Within the next two years we need to feed a million more people in the United Kingdom. We need to do this during a drought, economic turmoil, using less water, fewer fossil fuels, and with public health benefits. Fortunately, there are some very simple, low-cost solutions that trigger positive feedback loops and impact multipliers. Sustaination’s business is to catalyse and accelerate these. We use social, local, and mobile web technologies to make it cheaper and easier for food enterprises to find each other, talk and trade; and for consumers to have visibility of the supply chain. Sustaination wants to brings the supply-chain efficiency of large multiples to the 96% of food enterprises that employ fewer than 250 people. Why? Because driving revenue to these local, independent companies means they can invest in more sustainable practices, bringing resilience to our food systems, and prosperity to our High Streets.

Find out more and pre-register at www.sustaination.co.uk

Where Next, Age UK Newcastle

Kay Steven

Where Next? will pilot the use of community maps to facilitate person-centred planning with vulnerable, older and isolated people as a way to enable them to engage and integrate into their local community. The maps will include locations of age-friendly businesses, vetted by older people as well as peer-to-peer recommendations of places and events to visit in the local community. The content for the maps will initially be co-produced by groups of older people and a web designer. People living and working in the community will be invited to contribute content to community maps through storytelling, skyping and filming, and recommendations. These living maps will act as a bridge between individuals in their homes and people in the community.

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GeoVation is funded by:

Ordnance Survey is Great Britain’s national mapping agency, providing the most accurate and up-to-date geographic data, relied on by government, business and individuals.

By maintaining and enhancing one of the world’s most detailed geographic referencing frameworks, our data is at the heart of policymaking and allows for better exchange of data between citizens and government.

For more information, please visit: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Ideas in Transit is a five-year project that applies user innovation to the transport challenges faced by individuals and society. It is a unique collaboration between commercial and academic thought leaders and their networks, supported by government funding. It will influence intelligent transport decisions at policy, social, personal and commercial levels. Ideas in Transit includes within the concept of ‘user innovation’ any development that is not top-down (for example, not driven by a major commercial or public organisation). One of the project’s objectives is therefore to discover, understand and promote current innovations that are ‘bottom-up’, unconventional and/or involve collaboration amongst users.

The Ideas in Transit project is funded by Technology Strategy Board, Department for Transport and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

For more information, please visit: www.ideasintransit.org

Acknowledgements The GeoVation team would particularly like to thank the following people for helping us to develop and run the GeoVation Challenges. As you know, we couldn’t have done it without you.

Alice Casey (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts), Amanda Gore (Design Council), Andy Clarke (Ordnance Survey), Bryan Forbes (Technology Strategy Board), Clare Jenkinson (Business in the Community), David Wilcox (Social Reporter), Edith Galliers (Barking and Dagenham Council), Edward Herath (Ordnance Survey), Noel Hatch (Kent County Council), Jamie Clark (Ordnance Survey), Jim Ivimey (Ordnance Survey), Mark Pinheiro (Cabinet Office), Matthew White (Ordnance Survey), Murray Sim (Nonon), Parminder Jutla (UnLtd), Sean Miller (Nonon), Will Popham (Business in the Community), David Townson (Nonon). Judging Panel: Alison Prendiville (Centre for Creative Competitive Design), Daniel Raven-Ellison (Mission:Explore), John Carpenter (Ordnance Survey), John Kimmance (Ordnance Survey), Marianne Guldbrandsen (Northern Circle), Peter ter Haar (Ordnance Survey), Richard Bridge (Community Matters), Roland Harwood, Chair, (100%Open) and all the MSc design students from London College of Communication.

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Where are the affected people?

What are the highest priorities for rescue and relief?

How can response agencies reach survivors?

Who has already delivered aid, and where?

MapAction delivers that vital information in the form of maps, created from information gathered at the disaster scene. By conveying a ‘shared operational picture’, our maps play a crucial role in delivering humanitarian aid to the right place, quickly – because aid in the wrong place is no help at all!

MapAction is unique. We are the only non-governmental organisation (NGO) with a substantial track record in field mapping for disaster emergencies. Since 2003, we have helped in over 25 emergencies including the Asian tsunami, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods and tropical storms. We can deploy a fully trained and equipped mapping team anywhere in the world, often within a few hours of an alert.

MapAction’s operational capability

We have harnessed the power and portability of modern technology – particularly geographical information systems (GIS) and satellite location systems: GPS. This enables us to gather information on the ground, combine it with satellite images and produce maps in the field that are delivered directly to the rescue and relief agencies themselves. Between emergency missions we also deliver training in GIS and other skills to disaster management agencies around the world. Most importantly, we help to build disaster mapping capacity in the most vulnerable countries.

Recent deployments

During 2011–12, MapAction’s 38 volunteers have responded in the field during emergency missions. 2011 saw, among others, humanitarian support to Libya and to Japan in response to the earthquake and tsunami. A busy 2012 has included operational deployments in the Philippines, Madagascar and Comoros floods, and helped coordinate aid efforts in the aftermath of the explosion in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

Making it all happen

MapAction counts among its strategic partners the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), with whom it regularly trains and works, UNOSAT and the SAFER consortium providing satellite derived crisis mapping, the UK government Department for International Development (DfID) and numerous major international non-governmental organisations (NGO). MapAction is also an active contributor to the voluntary technical crisis mapping community.

When disaster strikes, the first crucial need is for… …information.

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