KANCO is a national network of NGOs, CBOs and FBOs in Kenya involved in HIV/AIDS and TB activities. It aims to provide leadership and enhance capacity among these organizations to respond to HIV/AIDS and TB at the community level. In 2009, KANCO began mapping AIDS service organizations across Kenya to show their locations and services. Currently over 350 organizations have been mapped. The mapping aims to make information more available and useful for networking, planning and advocacy. It also allows communities to provide feedback on services and informs decision-makers. KANCO is working to address challenges in mapping rural organizations and increase access through tools like SMS referrals and alerts.
The document discusses the Kuh-Ke-Nah Network, which enables Indigenous communities to choose how they are included in the information society. The network provides services like videoconferencing, telemedicine, and online school courses. It faces challenges of being inclusive to remote communities and educating stakeholders. Lessons learned include communities driving applications, partnerships at all levels being needed, and demonstrating technology's effective use to other communities. The network is based on Indigenous values of community and aims to build services while maintaining connections to the land.
We started with sending letters for the German mayors asking them to support our “Public Money? Public Code!” Campaign. Then we translated it and sent it to mayors all over Europe. In this talk, we will tell you how this letter was received.
Introduction to hyper-local media, part two: Top 10 trendsDamian Radcliffe
12" pack broken into three, due to file size. This is part two, which looks at the Top Ten trends I have identified for the sector. Comments, feedback and suggestions are very welcome.
Not for profits how do we respond to the cutsSweet TLC Ltd
The speaker discusses the impact of funding cuts on the local voluntary sector in the UK. Recent data shows that medium-sized voluntary organizations with incomes around £300,000 have been hit hardest by the recession, with 49% reporting significant impacts. Cuts to public funding are also negatively impacting many local organizations. However, the new UK government's "Big Society" program presents some opportunities to increase social action and community involvement. The speaker urges leaders in the voluntary sector to make use of opportunities under this program while also responding strategically to funding challenges.
This document summarizes emerging findings from a study on how cities in the EU respond to the needs of irregular migrants. The key points are:
1) City responses are constrained by national laws but may differ from national priorities by responding to local needs and problems.
2) Beyond legal requirements, cities provide services like healthcare, education, shelter, and food assistance. They do so for reasons of legal duty, humanitarian concerns, and practical goals like public health and crime prevention.
3) Factors influencing city approaches include evidence of needs, pressure from service providers, capacity to provide, and examples from other cities. Approaches differ even within countries based on these competency and capacity factors.
KANCO is a national network of NGOs, CBOs and FBOs in Kenya involved in HIV/AIDS and TB activities. It aims to provide leadership and enhance capacity among these organizations to respond to HIV/AIDS and TB at the community level. In 2009, KANCO began mapping AIDS service organizations across Kenya to show their locations and services. Currently over 350 organizations have been mapped. The mapping aims to make information more available and useful for networking, planning and advocacy. It also allows communities to provide feedback on services and informs decision-makers. KANCO is working to address challenges in mapping rural organizations and increase access through tools like SMS referrals and alerts.
The document discusses the Kuh-Ke-Nah Network, which enables Indigenous communities to choose how they are included in the information society. The network provides services like videoconferencing, telemedicine, and online school courses. It faces challenges of being inclusive to remote communities and educating stakeholders. Lessons learned include communities driving applications, partnerships at all levels being needed, and demonstrating technology's effective use to other communities. The network is based on Indigenous values of community and aims to build services while maintaining connections to the land.
We started with sending letters for the German mayors asking them to support our “Public Money? Public Code!” Campaign. Then we translated it and sent it to mayors all over Europe. In this talk, we will tell you how this letter was received.
Introduction to hyper-local media, part two: Top 10 trendsDamian Radcliffe
12" pack broken into three, due to file size. This is part two, which looks at the Top Ten trends I have identified for the sector. Comments, feedback and suggestions are very welcome.
Not for profits how do we respond to the cutsSweet TLC Ltd
The speaker discusses the impact of funding cuts on the local voluntary sector in the UK. Recent data shows that medium-sized voluntary organizations with incomes around £300,000 have been hit hardest by the recession, with 49% reporting significant impacts. Cuts to public funding are also negatively impacting many local organizations. However, the new UK government's "Big Society" program presents some opportunities to increase social action and community involvement. The speaker urges leaders in the voluntary sector to make use of opportunities under this program while also responding strategically to funding challenges.
This document summarizes emerging findings from a study on how cities in the EU respond to the needs of irregular migrants. The key points are:
1) City responses are constrained by national laws but may differ from national priorities by responding to local needs and problems.
2) Beyond legal requirements, cities provide services like healthcare, education, shelter, and food assistance. They do so for reasons of legal duty, humanitarian concerns, and practical goals like public health and crime prevention.
3) Factors influencing city approaches include evidence of needs, pressure from service providers, capacity to provide, and examples from other cities. Approaches differ even within countries based on these competency and capacity factors.
The Welcome Mat Detroit is a nonprofit organization that connects immigrant communities to services in southeast Michigan. It maintains a database of over 800 social, cultural, and civic organizations. The organization strives to foster a welcoming environment for immigrants by serving as a central information hub and facilitating connections between new arrivals and service providers. An internship is available to assist with updating the organization's database of services, conducting outreach, and researching immigrant integration issues and funding opportunities.
Born Local - Making Local Communities Flourish!Born Local
Nearhood is a proposed hyperlocal social media and news platform that aggregates locally relevant information for neighborhoods and villages. It aims to be a one-stop location for residents to find social updates, local business information, news, and alerts. Content would come from residents, local groups, businesses, municipalities, and other online sources. The platform seeks to organize currently scattered hyperlocal content and sees potential in underserved European markets. Test users responded positively about its clear organization of varied local information.
Travalian is a worldwide community, with the same mix of traditions and cultures we see in any other social group large or small, the only thing that separates us is the distance between us and the rich landscapes that we call home. Every person on Earth share a common goal that is part of our nature, to create a happy life, to explore the unknown and to discover more about each other and the places we live.
Travalian is a worldwide community, with the same mix of traditions and cultures we see in any other social group large or small, the only thing that separates us is the distance between us and the rich landscapes that we call home. Every person on Earth share a common goal that is part of our nature, to create a happy life, to explore the unknown and to discover more about each other and the places we live.
Travalian is a worldwide community, with the same mix of traditions and cultures we see in any other social group large or small, the only thing that separates us is the distance between us and the rich landscapes that we call home. Every person on Earth share a common goal that is part of our nature, to create a happy life, to explore the unknown and to discover more about each other and the places we live.
The document outlines Joe Pantalone's platform and vision for Toronto. It discusses his plans to address affordable housing, including building 1000 new affordable units per year and expanding rent control. It also discusses his transportation plan to build an affordable and extensive light rail network, as well as plans to promote sustainability, economic development, and support for seniors and vulnerable groups. The document emphasizes Pantalone's decades of experience and his vision of building an inclusive city that leaves no one behind.
Effective marketing of employment information to immigrants requires knowing where immigrants look for such information. This presentation offers some insight into such resources and the factors that influence immigrants’ search habits.
We have concluded that more research in this area needs to be undertaken in order to improve how employment opportunities are marketed to skilled immigrants.
Wadja is a social media platform that allows users to "label" content and conversations in real-time with customizable tags. It has over 5.2 million registered users who create over 200,000 labels daily. The platform aims to add structure to online conversations and make content more relevant by tagging ideas and topics. Wadja sees potential for growth across industries by facilitating virtual goods, semantic advertising, and white label solutions.
Participa en Andalucía is a web platform for digital citizen participation in Andalusia, Spain. It aims to promote citizen, local authority, and organization involvement in political and civil life through new technologies. The platform allows citizens to communicate, express opinions, debate, associate, and collaborate for social or political purposes. It has integrated over 25% of Andalusian towns since its creation in 2007. The platform is based on free and open-source software to facilitate digital participation.
The document describes the structure and contents of an Open City Portal (OCP) being created in Nigeria. The OCP is a multifunctional tool that provides access to various information and communication resources organized by service category. Each category contains up to 13 forums that offer different types of relevant information through which users can share content, comments, and participate in discussions. The document outlines the purpose and information provided in each of the OCP's subcategories and forums.
Presentation by Yamina Guidoum of QEC ERAN at the URBACT migration CityLab event on 26 May 2009 about the use of multilingual web portals for cities and towns to help migrants to access services
The new solution of the southeast asian immigrant issuegistaiwan
This document proposes an app to help solve issues facing Southeast Asian immigrants in Taiwan. The app would have three main functions: 1) an online learning system providing language courses for immigrants and Taiwanese; 2) an immigrants' business promoting platform; and 3) a living information provider. The app aims to benefit both immigrants and locals by addressing education, business, and daily living needs through a comprehensive online platform.
Report on barcelona roundtable on city responses to irregular migrantsThomas Jézéquel
Municipal authorities from 11 cities in 8 European countries met in Barcelona to discuss challenges of providing services to irregular migrants. Key issues discussed included implications of exclusion from services, legal challenges, cooperation with NGOs, and need for further evidence sharing. Cities agreed to establish a working group under Eurocities to build evidence on impacts of exclusion/inclusion, share promising practices, and mainstream irregular migrants in EU policy. The group would seek funding and agree on outputs to raise awareness of challenges cities face and help address them.
Hyper-Local update: 20 key developments, February - March 2011Damian Radcliffe
Follow on from previous slide packs offering a personal take on hyper-local developments in the UK and USA. These slides include developments I thought were noteworthy in Feb 11 - March 11. Would very much welcome comments, feedback and suggestions.
The Austin team partnered with the city to build applications and advance open government initiatives like increasing data portal usage. They completed projects like Prepared.ly for wildfire preparedness and hosted events like hackathons. Going forward, the city is continuing open data efforts and formed an Innovation Office thanks to the groundwork laid by the fellowship in strengthening Austin's civic tech community.
What do People want, need and expect from public services?
Maintaining a focus on citizens has been challenging in an environment dominated by fiscal crisis and pressure for cuts and quick fixes. Yet without properly understanding what the public want and value, and how they relate to today’s services, it will be impossible to design services for tomorrow that fit the lives they live, and develop the capabilities they need to fulfil their aspirations.
This report is part of our ongoing work to articulate a citizen-centric vision for public services. In it, Ipsos MORI present their data on public attitudes and aspirations, providing a comprehensive overview of the state of current public opinion.
Their evidence should be of interest to anyone concerned about the meaning and impact of public services today, and their democratic reform in the future. It shows that the public:
• want public services to be based on notions of the public good, rather than just what’s good for me;
• understand the public good largely in terms of universalism, with equality of access to benefits;
• are prepared, with prompting, to consider types of equality that relate to outcomes rather than access;
• see more potential in playing a strong adult role in public service development locally rather than nationally; and • struggle to see a compelling or urgent case for reforming public services to cope with economic pressures and social changes, and divide evenly on whether to support service cuts or tax rises.
Raed full Report
The Welcome Mat Detroit is a nonprofit organization that connects immigrant communities to services in southeast Michigan. It maintains a database of over 800 social, cultural, and civic organizations. The organization strives to foster a welcoming environment for immigrants by serving as a central information hub and facilitating connections between new arrivals and service providers. An internship is available to assist with updating the organization's database of services, conducting outreach, and researching immigrant integration issues and funding opportunities.
Born Local - Making Local Communities Flourish!Born Local
Nearhood is a proposed hyperlocal social media and news platform that aggregates locally relevant information for neighborhoods and villages. It aims to be a one-stop location for residents to find social updates, local business information, news, and alerts. Content would come from residents, local groups, businesses, municipalities, and other online sources. The platform seeks to organize currently scattered hyperlocal content and sees potential in underserved European markets. Test users responded positively about its clear organization of varied local information.
Travalian is a worldwide community, with the same mix of traditions and cultures we see in any other social group large or small, the only thing that separates us is the distance between us and the rich landscapes that we call home. Every person on Earth share a common goal that is part of our nature, to create a happy life, to explore the unknown and to discover more about each other and the places we live.
Travalian is a worldwide community, with the same mix of traditions and cultures we see in any other social group large or small, the only thing that separates us is the distance between us and the rich landscapes that we call home. Every person on Earth share a common goal that is part of our nature, to create a happy life, to explore the unknown and to discover more about each other and the places we live.
Travalian is a worldwide community, with the same mix of traditions and cultures we see in any other social group large or small, the only thing that separates us is the distance between us and the rich landscapes that we call home. Every person on Earth share a common goal that is part of our nature, to create a happy life, to explore the unknown and to discover more about each other and the places we live.
The document outlines Joe Pantalone's platform and vision for Toronto. It discusses his plans to address affordable housing, including building 1000 new affordable units per year and expanding rent control. It also discusses his transportation plan to build an affordable and extensive light rail network, as well as plans to promote sustainability, economic development, and support for seniors and vulnerable groups. The document emphasizes Pantalone's decades of experience and his vision of building an inclusive city that leaves no one behind.
Effective marketing of employment information to immigrants requires knowing where immigrants look for such information. This presentation offers some insight into such resources and the factors that influence immigrants’ search habits.
We have concluded that more research in this area needs to be undertaken in order to improve how employment opportunities are marketed to skilled immigrants.
Wadja is a social media platform that allows users to "label" content and conversations in real-time with customizable tags. It has over 5.2 million registered users who create over 200,000 labels daily. The platform aims to add structure to online conversations and make content more relevant by tagging ideas and topics. Wadja sees potential for growth across industries by facilitating virtual goods, semantic advertising, and white label solutions.
Participa en Andalucía is a web platform for digital citizen participation in Andalusia, Spain. It aims to promote citizen, local authority, and organization involvement in political and civil life through new technologies. The platform allows citizens to communicate, express opinions, debate, associate, and collaborate for social or political purposes. It has integrated over 25% of Andalusian towns since its creation in 2007. The platform is based on free and open-source software to facilitate digital participation.
The document describes the structure and contents of an Open City Portal (OCP) being created in Nigeria. The OCP is a multifunctional tool that provides access to various information and communication resources organized by service category. Each category contains up to 13 forums that offer different types of relevant information through which users can share content, comments, and participate in discussions. The document outlines the purpose and information provided in each of the OCP's subcategories and forums.
Presentation by Yamina Guidoum of QEC ERAN at the URBACT migration CityLab event on 26 May 2009 about the use of multilingual web portals for cities and towns to help migrants to access services
The new solution of the southeast asian immigrant issuegistaiwan
This document proposes an app to help solve issues facing Southeast Asian immigrants in Taiwan. The app would have three main functions: 1) an online learning system providing language courses for immigrants and Taiwanese; 2) an immigrants' business promoting platform; and 3) a living information provider. The app aims to benefit both immigrants and locals by addressing education, business, and daily living needs through a comprehensive online platform.
Report on barcelona roundtable on city responses to irregular migrantsThomas Jézéquel
Municipal authorities from 11 cities in 8 European countries met in Barcelona to discuss challenges of providing services to irregular migrants. Key issues discussed included implications of exclusion from services, legal challenges, cooperation with NGOs, and need for further evidence sharing. Cities agreed to establish a working group under Eurocities to build evidence on impacts of exclusion/inclusion, share promising practices, and mainstream irregular migrants in EU policy. The group would seek funding and agree on outputs to raise awareness of challenges cities face and help address them.
Hyper-Local update: 20 key developments, February - March 2011Damian Radcliffe
Follow on from previous slide packs offering a personal take on hyper-local developments in the UK and USA. These slides include developments I thought were noteworthy in Feb 11 - March 11. Would very much welcome comments, feedback and suggestions.
The Austin team partnered with the city to build applications and advance open government initiatives like increasing data portal usage. They completed projects like Prepared.ly for wildfire preparedness and hosted events like hackathons. Going forward, the city is continuing open data efforts and formed an Innovation Office thanks to the groundwork laid by the fellowship in strengthening Austin's civic tech community.
What do People want, need and expect from public services?
Maintaining a focus on citizens has been challenging in an environment dominated by fiscal crisis and pressure for cuts and quick fixes. Yet without properly understanding what the public want and value, and how they relate to today’s services, it will be impossible to design services for tomorrow that fit the lives they live, and develop the capabilities they need to fulfil their aspirations.
This report is part of our ongoing work to articulate a citizen-centric vision for public services. In it, Ipsos MORI present their data on public attitudes and aspirations, providing a comprehensive overview of the state of current public opinion.
Their evidence should be of interest to anyone concerned about the meaning and impact of public services today, and their democratic reform in the future. It shows that the public:
• want public services to be based on notions of the public good, rather than just what’s good for me;
• understand the public good largely in terms of universalism, with equality of access to benefits;
• are prepared, with prompting, to consider types of equality that relate to outcomes rather than access;
• see more potential in playing a strong adult role in public service development locally rather than nationally; and • struggle to see a compelling or urgent case for reforming public services to cope with economic pressures and social changes, and divide evenly on whether to support service cuts or tax rises.
Raed full Report
2. Introduction Roughsleepers.org will be a website providing information and tools aimed at individuals who have recently become homeless and are rough-sleeping in London. It will be launched in the summer of 2010. There is a “...constant flow of new people into rough-sleeping...” Department for Communities and Local Government
3. Proposed Features Roughsleepers.org will allow individuals to: Register for the site. Identify and update their current needs. Locate service providers who meet their identified needs (This will include an interactive map). Provide information on what led them to be ‘rough-sleeping’ Receive SMS text alerts notifying them of events taking place in their locality which are relevant to their identified needs.
4. Stakeholder Role A small number of potential stakeholder organizations have been approached to provide advice at key points during site development to ensure the site provides tangible benefit to: Individuals who are rough-sleeping. The organizations working with these individuals.
5. What is asked of stakeholders? Stakeholders are asked to provide between 1-2 hours per month to review proposals and provide advice. This contact can be in any way which is most convenient for the stakeholder, including: telephone, Email Face-to-face Online collaboration tools
6. Stakeholder prerequisites To qualify as project stakeholders, an organization should: Work with or for individuals rough-sleeping in London. Understand the issues giving rise to rough-sleeping in London and the help that is available. Be available to provide input by email or online.
7. Further information If you have any questions please contact me. Gwyn Jones gwyn@lightforms.co.uk 07970 317731