William Perrin TAL

DfID BSD Retreat25 November 2009

William Perrin - william@talkaboutlocal.orgTalk About Local (West Midlands) Ltdhttp://talkaboutlocal.org

Abandoned cars and weekly arsonBingfield Park, Rufford Street 2002Gas cylinders often in cars for extra ooomph Pics – Mark Bailey

Stolen moped Grand Prixs c2002Bingfield ParkKings CrossMost Saturdays when Arsenal at homeEnd with traditional moped bonfire Pics – Mark Bailey

The ‘Crackavan’Rufford Street c2002 Pics – Mark Bailey

Caledonian Ward Safer Neighbourhood Panel

North King Cross Environmental Taskforce

West Area Committee

West Area Planning Committee

CYP Management committee

Kings Cross Development Forum

Gifford, Rufford and Randells Residents Association

Team Cally

Sparkplug Management Committee

Planning Applications (dozens)

....but found huge information burden mostly from council and local public services

Set up simple website to manage all the information on my terms

Got stuck in to these local exercises over several years........

‘Strategic plans’ - many

www.kingscrossenvironment.comover 700 articlesFour volunteer writers – aged 40-65Small number of authorsCampaigns, information, wildlife, events etc

Stoke-on-Trent www.pitsnpots.co.ukCampaigning, challenging styleReflects local frustration at political scene3 writers, 28,000 comments on local politicsWordpress site£20 a month

www.harringayonline.comNearly 2,000 membersGreen LanesChatty informal feelWide range of local issues£15 month

Very small town ningChatty informal feelWide range of local issuesOver 50 membersFree

Team of 5 people400 pv a dayThousands of articlesVillage population 500Wordpress.comC£10/month

Maneno – Africa-specific publishing platformLow or variable bandwidthCommunity translates articles into common languages

White AfricanExcellent round up of Africa techErik Hersman (Kenya, Sudan, USA)Also Afrigadget

Loose meet ups of people interested in modern web tech in AfricaExcellent networking, London based

Bamako, MALI

3.5 million members’14 million actions’17 languages

National Health Service – how it could work

“….absence of any means for sharing good practice and learning between development project agencies and countries.” Lord Crisp Global Health Partnerships

•We invite other governments and NGOs to embed NHS information into their own emerging healthcare web sites

•New technology allows this to happen at low to zero cost to the UK and the recipient – so called “data mashing”

•Resonance with BBC World Service news - public service ethos, neutrality, hard truths

World

NHS Choices already doing deal with Kenya

mzalendoTheyworkforyou in Kenya - 2007But without a Parliament website to scrape....

Kenya budget trackingTxt interfaceSuperior to any UK product

William Perrin TAL

Happy to talk

william@talkaboutlocal.orgTalk About Local (West Midlands) Ltdhttp://talkaboutlocal.org