MyStreetParty

FROM: Will Wharfe

What NEED does this meet?
People don't know their neighbours any more. This would provide a way of getting to find out if anyone in your area is interested in organising a street party (doesn't have to be literally in your street). Once you've organised a street party, hopefully you will have got to know people! And, you will have identified yourself as a street party organiser... that way, when someone arrives in the area and wants to find out how to get involved, they can find out who the local street party people are... Street parties are a great non sectarian, non political way of getting people together. Nice focused activity with a tangible result.

What is the APPROACH?
Start small, focused, real ground level. Find people who actually run real street parties at the moment. Work out what the system would need to do to make their job easier. Get them on board. Test the system and refine it. Then roll it out in the areas around the areas where it's been piloted. Leverage connections with multimap, upmystreet, streetmap.co.uk; findaproperty etc So that people can view an area and see the street party areas.

What are the BENEFITS to people?
Makes it easier to make personal connections locally. This creates a form of social infrastructure on which other projects could be built.

What is the COMPETITION?
I don't think there's any competition. But there are lots of location information services (multimap/ upmystreet/ findaproperty) that this could work well with.

What BUDGET & LOGISTICS are required?
Depends how rapidly you want to roll it out and how many places you want to test it in. Probably around £20K - £40K for the software for the pilot. Probably about the same for the management/people feedback etc.