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• Put your money where your 'map' is...
  A visual map depicting a community's youth facilities and spending per head juxtaposed against youth crime in the area.
• Who Cares?
  This is a beautifully designed website and annual booklet that uses art to illustrate social statistics and related real-life stories.
• Community Bartering
  Create a marketplace for bartering of local and voluntary services by establishing real-time information feeds linking supply and demand.
• Communityfaq.com
  Real-time and personalised FAQ for my current locality and time.
• Allotment Manager
  Create a portal to optimise the use of allotments by providing information on available allotments and from experienced allotment holders.
• Travel companion
  Establish an active portal as a means to contact and push relevant information to British Citizens abroad.
• Online Watch Link
  Allows watch schemes to be managed online such as Neighbourhood Watch, School Watch, etc, mutually by police & public
• PlanningFinder
  PlanningFinder allows you to register a postcode and receive notifications of planning applications made close to you.
• Urban Screens
  Community agencies and partners can upload various public information and data onto publicly placed and regularly updated LCD Screens.
• What is Working Worth to Me?
  Online tool to enable people moving back into work to see the effect this would have on their net income.
• The Government Channel
  Search for and view related videos and multimedia content made by the government, councils and citizens to educate and inform
• Local To Me
  Web site allowing you to enter your postcode and all local information relating to that postcode is displayed.
• Do You Live Lucky ?
  Type in a postcode and select six variables from a total of forty nine to display how valuable it is
• The C2C Exchange
  Making communities work together by linking people, projects and ideas through educational, economic and professional exchanges.
• Community Activities Mapping
  A Google Map based Social Network which maps the community in an area by people, statutory and voluntary sector
• My Local Knowledge - How well do you know yours ?
  Type in a postcode and view who knows what about where.
• Communiopinion - Ask.View.Decide
  Need to gauge public opinion on an aspect of your community or local area ? Now you can !
• Integrate UK
  Integrate UK is a website that will help EU Nationals working in the UK integrate into British society.
• BlackFoot : Social Synergy Monster Mash
  real life version of online mashups where people use actual things in the community to build something greater
• Memory Lane : Where does your's live ?
  Upload, view, share and comment on your experiences of an area with others - social history in the making.
• Use The Land
  social mapping site identifying areas of under used land. Enter social, community, artistic or educational suggestions
• Moving Minds
  An interactive service that brings to life cognitive therapy for people with mental illness, depression or stress
• WeR1 (we are one) TV
  People book a time slot to air their views via self generated content about life in their local area
• Freesource - Free Done
  Access local free resources that you can use - archives, libraries, services, tools, people, information, days out, legal advice etc
• EventMap - Local Events on a National Scale!
  Log onto EventMap to find out what events are planned near you or your holiday destination.
• Targeted Partner Prospecting
  In these busy times maximise your opportunity to find a suitable partner by 'Targeted Partner Prospecting' using public domain data.
• The Soscars - Awards for Excellence in Society
  Enabling members of the public to nominate and award social oscars to one another or for any outstanding service rendered
• Back to work by working together
  People finding skills and other people to help them set up in business and out of poverty.
• Learning doesn't stop ( LearningBook.com )
  Gaining the experiences of many lifetimes of learning from the adult community then sharing that information back in to community.
• Care and Share
  Local Community postcode based sharing and caring for each other bringing community spirit back to the 21st century
• Rate My Region
  A website comparing local information eg. schools, crime and healthcare; aimed at people moving house to rate areas by postcode.
• MySocialPIM
  Online social organiser for the nation to plan, prioritise, share and synthesize important information with one another
• Hobby Buddy Network
  A social network that connects local people with similar hobbies.
• Clean Restaurants
  A mash up displaying official Trading Standards inspection scores of eating establishments within the local area.
• Recover/it.
  Log in to report items that you have found in your area...save police time
• Thinking of Teenagers
  To provide information on 'Things to do' for teenagers, within their area
• City Veg
  A system to allow for usage of spare corporate, council, government and private land to produce vegetables.
• How far to Nursery / School?
  Enter your postcode and get the nearest nursery schools, (walking route), and the distances to them.
• Where You Live
  A website where the user enters their postcode and is given a page with leading stories from local authorities etc.
• Skynet
  Bluetooth chips (cheap) installed in high places (safe!) for free internet access!
• National Residents' Portal
  Consolidating on a postcode related basis public notices relating to forthcoming local events
• Reusing Infrastructure
  Making the fibre and other ICT infrastructure that lies dark and unused available for community and citizen projects.
• Who's in charge?
  An open source database that creates graphical maps of institutions and how they are related.
• Community Service Log
  To retain national and regional "projects" that require work to them.
• DIY personalised services
  People download public-service rules and assets and match them with local personal data to model and apply for personalised services.
• Com.unity
  Provide communities the information and tools they need to solve their own problems, in return for lower taxation.
• Local health - local action - national health improvement
  Bring together information about health of local communities and what influences it so the community can mobilise to improve health
• Our Say - Our Lives
  Website for young people to voice their opinions and gain information about health services, crime, child protection, leisure and education.
• My Neighbourhoods
  A place to get to know your neighbours and find out more about your local area.
• Community Sentinels
  An integrated, cell-phone based IT system that enables citizens to coordinate their interest in preventing anti-social behaviour in public places.
• Map-based Citizens' Engagement Tool
  A system of map-based democracy and community engagement.
• Community Sentinels
  An integrated, cell-phone based IT system that enables citizens to coordinate their interest in preventing anti-social behaviour in public places.
• Write IT
  an easy to use tool that allows people who are socially disadvantaged to communicate on the internet
• Community Connector Portal
  Providing a single portal for citizens to request help for community, regional, national issues, ask for information, or propose solutions.
• The Law Says
  A free wiki for the law, put together by the community for everybody.
• community directory
  An evolving database which holds information on local community groups and activities including sports and residents association etc.
• Things to do!
  A map based website where users can place markers on places where there is entertainment
• 999 on the net
  An alternative to 999, let folks do part of the job that emergency operators already do, themselves, via the net.
• Blue Plaque Search
  Get a list of the closest english heritage blue plaques when walking around London.
• Crime Hotspots
  Mapping crime to your local area, to dispel myths, fuel community action, concentrate police activity and focus local authority project.
• YourNews
  Your Local online news network
• CCTV Streamed Over Web
  Have all of UKs CCTV cameras streamed to the web via one central web site.
• Donating Free Time and Skills for a Local Cause
  Allowing people with specific skills and free time to come together and work on any project to help the community.
• Care-Home Respect For Life
  Information resource providing comparative statistical evidence of the quality of care offered in care-homes by region.
• Vandalsnapper
  Residents log vandalism by forwarding geo-tagged picture messages from their mobile phones.
• Neighborhood Watch Online (Or Pimp my Steet)
  Real time reporting problems where people live. Roads, pathways, floods, sewage and lighting, noise, and crime reporting