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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.
• Life-changing events.com
  Make information personal and relevant by designing information portals around life events eg birth or death and making information real-time.
• MyGov Personal Government
  A mashup site like iGoogle where members can manage a personalised view on public data and government services
• Travel companion
  Establish an active portal as a means to contact and push relevant information to British Citizens abroad.
• OneSource
  Submitted ideas checked for existing sites that already offer suggested services avoiding duplication, compile hyerlinked index with controlled keyword search
• CivicAgora
  A system for the deliberative examination of policy-related matters grounded on public information and subject to principled scrutiny.
• Regeneration Time Warp
  The time warp will map public spending progressing over time.
• Sharing Land Ownership Data
  Shouldn't publicly funded bodies share information on who owns particular parcels of land?
• Effectis - What happens if...?
  You change a few variable factors within a set condition(s) to see the implications it has upon you
• MeshPotato
  Visually browse datasets relating to your postcode and view videos, maps, images, stats and articles connecting to it.
• Feed Me
  UK government RSS feeds plus an RSS feed of feed changes (ie new feeds or feeds being shut down).
• Election Memory
  An online memory, archive of the results and participants in each election.
• Living Community Map and fault-reporting: Council 2.0
  An engaging way to map citizen's experiences, both good and bad, in their communities, to prompt discussion, learning and improvements.
• The Government within 3 CLICKS
  Access ANY government service within three clicks from employment, health, tax, education to environment and public spending
• E-governence
  It will provide a platform which will help people of UK to share their problems and expectations with concerned authority
• GOVision : The Power Behind Power
  Who are the people in government, what do they do and what do certain services provide ?
• Communiopinion - Ask.View.Decide
  Need to gauge public opinion on an aspect of your community or local area ? Now you can !
• The Free Legal Web
  Join up the law and legal commentary and analysis and provide a killer service to lawyers and the wider community.
• Govdata Portal
  A site combining public contracting info with searchable pre procurement strategies and contact info
• Rate the Policy
  A way to rate how important an announced government/opposition policy is
• OpenParliament
  Know the latest news from parliament that concerns you and your area - recent bills, leglislation, votes, motions etc
• Bill Bank
  An online library of legislation and proposed bills with reasoning from those responsible. Online voting can gauge popularity.
• Helping charities find membership near event venue
  A web service for organisations/charities to map the postcodes of member addresses to grid references.
• Slash the fuel bill
  Sharing of vehicle location data across public organisations to identify possible shared resource opportunities.
• The anti-discrimination tool-kit, 'What works'
  Information, advice, contact details, on what to do if you have experienced disability-discrimination, bullying, harrassment, in the work-place.
• Missing Person to IP Geolocation
  Advert within government websites showing last known location of missing persons near to the viewer.
• Thinking of Teenagers
  To provide information on 'Things to do' for teenagers, within their area
• Acts of Kindness Website
  Acts of kindness are logged and or read by the recipient, the person carrying out the act or an observer.
• Broadband everywhere
  Many rural areas still do not have true 2Mbps broadband coverage. How about piggybacking community networks/access on public sector infrastructure?
• Central Data Store
  Centrally collect and hold data collected by local authorities, highways agency, etc
• Online roll call vote access by legislator
  Make legislative roll call votes accessible online by legislator in addition to by bill or chronology.
• MyServices
  Enter your postcode, get back phone numbers and email addresses of the services (parish to national) that affect your address.
• Word processor for multimedia
  Edit audio/video by editing the text transcript of it.
• IM Intelligent
  An instant messaging service on the homepage of each government website providing customer help regarding the answers to questions.
• Public Policy Watch
  Realtime visualisation of the impact of a particular policy on the welfare and stability of the nation
• Civil Service Business Code
  Apply objective tests to the burdensome constraints imposed on civil servants who take up jobs in business.
• Tax and Spend
  Spending Breakdown and Tax Spending By Category
• They pray for you
  Information about how Bishops in the Church of England have voted in the House of Lords and General Synod
• CareerMove
  Create a postcode/town searchable national database of all public sector vacancies plus all school/college courses.
• Public Policy Watch
  Realtime visualisation of the impact of a particular policy on the welfare and stability of the nation
• Phone The Government
  Phone numbers listed for all the government buildings displayed on a map.
• Write to your Ambassador (or) Foreign Office 2.0
  Get the FCO to free up data on Foreign Representatives for more innovative communication and help human rights causes!