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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.
  • Put your money where your 'map' is...
    A visual map depicting a community's youth facilities & spending per head juxtaposed against youth crime in the area.
  • Online Watch Link
    Allows watch schemes to be managed online such as Neighbourhood Watch, School Watch, etc, mutually by police & public
  • Local To Me
    Web site allowing you to enter your postcode and all local information relating to that postcode is displayed.
  • CCTV Watch
    A nationwide evaluation of the mass use of CCTV surveillance.
  • The Missing List
    A crime mapping concept focussed on enhancing the reciprocal flow of information between the police and the people they serve.
  • Safer routes home
    Let victims publish the locations of street crimes so that other people can see which places to avoid
  • Neighbourhood Watch Online
    Online system to report vandalism, noise problems, suspicious or unusual behaviour in your neighbourhood.
  • The Free Legal Web
    Join up the law and legal commentary and analysis and provide a killer service to lawyers and the wider community.
  • Use The Land
    social mapping site identifying areas of under used land. Enter social, community, artistic or educational suggestions
  • Code RED : emergency crisis management
    Visually shows reported crises and events (fires, traffic accidents, robberies, crimes etc)in your area in real time
  • Targeted Partner Prospecting
    In these busy times maximise your opportunity to find a suitable partner by 'Targeted Partner Prospecting' using public domain data.
  • NAME AND SHAME
    People can post the numberplates (and pictures) of cars parking in disabled parking spaces without displaying blue badges.
  • Rate My Region
    A website comparing local information eg. schools, crime and healthcare; aimed at people moving house to rate areas by postcode.
  • 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
  • Local To Me
    Web site allowing you to enter your postcode and all local information relating to that postcode is displayed.
  • Where You Live
    A website where the user enters their postcode and is given a page with leading stories from local authorities etc.
  • Neighbourhood Watch Widget
    Making neighbourhood watch groups more effective by improving communications between members themselves and the police service.
  • Crime tips
    Through IP to Location conversion technology users can be targeted with ads for wanted criminals/fugitives in their area.
  • Helping parents stop their kids collecting ASBOs
    Use data to tell parents what the likely indicators are that their kids are at risk of becoming young offenders.
  • Crime map
    An online map that shows where crime has taken place
  • Stop theft in its tracks
    A database of every item that has been reported stolen making it harder to sell them on.
  • iStayInSchool
    Showing the regional differences of the dependence between education, earnings and crime
  • CrimSpot
    Live GPS data mashed onto google earth on anyone wearing an electronic tagging order
  • Community Sentinels
    An integrated, cell-phone based IT system that enables citizens to coordinate their interest in preventing anti-social behaviour in public places.
  • SpotCrime.com
    A website devoted to aggregating, mapping, and discussing crimes throughout the world in order to promote awareness and safety.
  • Prison Numbers predictor
    Statistical attempt to predict prison numbers given changes in crime, detection, sentencing and legislation, over a long term time horizon.
  • Community Sentinels
    An integrated, cell-phone based IT system that enables citizens to coordinate their interest in preventing anti-social behaviour in public places.
  • My Blue's And Two's - MyBLAT
    To map the average number of blue light journeys experienced per period on any particular road and relate to disturbance.
  • Open Justice
    Online court transcripts available and searchable on the day.
  • The Law Says
    A free wiki for the law, put together by the community for everybody.
  • Your Thoughts
    Giving the public the chance to voice their thoughts, fears, worries and perceptions on issues in their area.
  • Youth Space (or Our Space)
    An information centre for young people showing local resources for recreation, education, health, employment and generally promoting social cooperation.
  • 999 on the net
    An alternative to 999, let folks do part of the job that emergency operators already do, themselves, via the net.
  • Crime cause mapping.
    Mapping social factors against violent crime. The outcome would give ability to indicate trends which could lead countermeasures being deployed.
  • Crime Hotspots
    Mapping crime to your local area, to dispel myths, fuel community action, concentrate police activity and focus local authority project.
  • Local Mentor
    Allowing youngsters/anyone requiring help in an area to have a person a mentor within a local timezone.
  • Vandalsnapper
    Residents log vandalism by forwarding geo-tagged picture messages from their mobile phones.
  • Social Teaching Aid
    Social Teaching Aid - show consequences of anti-social behavour
  • Neighborhood Watch Online (Or Pimp my Steet)
    Real time reporting problems where people live. Roads, pathways, floods, sewage and lighting, noise, and crime reporting
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This competition is asking for your help in developing better ways to publish the vast swathes of non-personal information that the government collects & creates on your behalf

Public data is your data. Tell us what you'd build with it and you could win £20k to develop your idea to the next level.

Latest Ideas

  • Polluter Finder
    Find out about and act on pollution in your area - search by pollutant, name and location.
  • WhoKnowsWho
    A service where anyone can find the immediate connections of MPs and MEPs.
  • Free Car Checks
    Help consumers to avoid buying fraudulent or stolen cars
  • Responcity
    A service to allow ordinary people to find out who is responsible for anything from roads to dental regulation.
  • Public Transport Nodes and Timetables
    Where's my nearest railway station? Where's my nearest bus top? Have I missed the last tube home?

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