The document discusses SKILLxShare, a platform that aims to help "pre-entrepreneurs" find partnerships to create new jobs by sharing their skills and interests locally. It does this by having users complete a survey on their key skills and interests, which are then formatted into a pie chart "Pie". Users can customize their Pie into a "Swirl" badge to represent themselves on the app and online. The platform maps users to help them find others with complementary skills near them to start conversations about collaborating to generate self-employment opportunities.

1. SKILLx
Share
Creating job makers,
not job seekers

2. Job making, not
seeking
• The key to SKILLxShare is that it is based on
sharing skills and interest locally to build
relationships and partnerships that can make
new jobs for people themselves.
• It is for pre-entrepreneurs: people who do not
yet have the confidence, cash or range of
skills to start a business alone but can by
sharing and working with others.

3. Finding your skills
• The key interest is finding out what
a user thinks of as their key skills
and interests.
• This is not a CV but a way of
actually communicating what
motivates a person and what they
want to do.
• The survey covers both their skills
(graphic, web, sales,
accountancy) and their interests
(making stuff to sell locally,
working together to win council
contracts, helping older people).

4. Skill & Interest Pie
• The Skill and Interests survey
is reformatted into a Pie Chart.
• This allows a colour coded
rather than text based
identification of personal
qualities.
• The Pie is the base level of
public information a user
provides without authorising
release of more personal data.

5. Swirl badge
• The user "swirls' their SKILLxShare
pie to create a personalised Swirl.
• The Swirl is the general icon for
app and web use and other users
can drill down through the Swirl to
the Pie.
• This can be used as an icon for
app/online ID as well as printed as
a badge.
• The Swirl can be used with both
2D and Augmented Reality
systems to link to more user detail.

6. Finding people
• Projected onto local map data,
everyone can see each other.
• The Swirl is the basic icon.
• A user can highlight another
person and select their icon
• The Swirl transforms to Pie and
allows a greater amount of detail
on skills and interests
• A user can then Tweet or
FaceBook the other person to
start a conversation.

7. Making jobs
• Having found a possible partner
with skills needed or similar
interest, the user can use Twitter
or Facebook to start a
conversation and find out more.
• Users can share more detail
from their Pie of specific skills.
• People can use the geo-location
to meet up and talk face to face
about what they can do
together to make jobs for
themselves.

8. Contact
Alastair Somerville
+44 (0)7808 480749
@SKILLxShare