Discover a programme that brings together students, entrepreneurs & community groups to develop creative solutions to local challenges. We help train students to co-design solutions from uncovering local needs with the community to working with them to develop projects that can be taken forward. We evaluate the insights and impact of the needs & solutions to help public services better understand how to support communities to help each other & use technology.

1. Nominated for top 40 civic innovation

2. 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.

3. Activities

4. Timeline
9 Sep – 19 Oct • People submit ideas online
18 October • People pitch ideas at DigiburyWeekender
20 Oct – 22 Oct • Judges review top 10 ideas
23 Oct – 29 Nov • People prototype solutions to ideas
• People get together to finalise & showcase prototypes to
judges who award prizes 29 Nov
1 Dec – 31 Mar • Support winners to help them take their solutions forward

5. 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

6. We bring together different groups…
Students
Designers
Public servants
Local residents
Entrepreneurs
Local groups

7. …to tackle local challenges
Communicating the evidence Describing a day in the life
Mapping the user journey Framing the opportunity

8. …using creative methods

9. Prototype ideas…
Brainstorming ideas Using new technologies
That deliver social impact and help people help each other
Photos by www.tomphillipsphotos.co.uk & http://creativepeopleplace.info/creatabox-at-home/

10. …to design solutions
Validating the usability Designing the interaction
Developing the functionality Simulating the service

11. Evaluate their impact…
Marketing the value proposition Developing the project
Creating the business model Measuring the impact

12. …to inform community insights

13. …and embed learning

14. …to help take forward projects
Partners Issues Motivations
Principles Prototypes Sustainability
+15 partners
+400 participants
+150 insights
+30 prototypes
+£100K
investment raised

16. 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

17. Previous partners

18. Support Programme
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.
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

19. Support (continued)
We also provide personalised support:
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

20. Support (continued)
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)

21. http://bit.ly/transformedbyyouguide
noel.hatch@kent.gov.uk