William Perrin TAL

Social Landlords GroupResident-led websites, letting you know what’s going on

21 July 2010

William Perrin - william@talkaboutlocal.org

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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

www.kingscrossenvironment.comover 950 articlesFour volunteer writers – aged 40-65Small number of authorsCampaigns, information, wildlife, events etcImportant part of wider regeneration – crime down, streets cleaner, public services more responsive

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The ‘Crackavan’Rufford Street c2002In front of my house Pics – Mark Bailey

Public Sector Information in actionBrand new street light broken for 163 daysSomeone isn’t living up to contractFrom snagging to failureCan performance data help hold to account?

Highway authority BV 215b - average time taken to repair a street

lighting fault, where response time is under the

control of a DNO Enfield 7.74 Ealing 9.35 Tower Hamlets 12.31 Harrow 13.40 Barnet 16.98 Hounslow 17.27 Southwark 17.43 City 19.00 Hammersmith and Fulham 20.21 Wandsworth 20.76 Hillingdon 20.81 Richmond 21.09 Waltham Forest 21.93 Haringey 21.96 Kingston Upon Thames 22.00 Barking and Dagenham 23.34* Merton 23.53 Havering 24.95 Kensington and Chelsea 25.88 Islington 26.50 Croydon 27.06 Redbridge 27.28 Newham 27.46 Sutton 27.89 Brent 30.54 Hackney 32.16 Lambeth 32.84 Camden 32.94 Bromley 35.69 Lewisham 38.77* Westminster 39.84* Transport for London 42.40 Greenwich 70.99 Bexley 77.45

2007-2008 Took a lifetime to find basic relevant information on webStreet light repair – Islington average 26.5 days v 163 hereLever for getting things doneLight gets fixed due to this and other factors

‘Local websites of all shapes and sizes are providing community news and information to hundreds of thousands of people.....grass roots media can provide an accurate, reliable, popular sources of news and information without regulation or subsidy. Their news values and thresholds are new, reflecting grass roots interests and priorities.’Digital Britain report

Traditional media leaders are coming around to the vision of local sites improving neighbourhoods and holding politicians to account:

Alan Rusbridger, Cudlipp Lecture:‘Depending on your point of view, you may find that vision of new ways of connecting and informing communities inspiring or terrifying. I think it is both – but it is a useful starting point to thinking about the value of journalism, in every sense of the word 'value'. And it is good to be forced to think at an even more basic level – about what journalism is and who can do it.’

•Local eyes on the ground, publicly visible•Graphic and descriptive•Broadens scope from trad. voices•Puts C21st interface on C19th system•Residents can remain pseudonymous, combating fear•Discussion easily moderated•You can join in !•This is why we need to get people online

We train trainers OR come to you to run a sessionAt the heart of Big SocietyIn discussion with Peabody Kings Cross (Martin O’Donnell) and Family Mosaic (Angus)Would love to talk

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