Love Lewisham is a remarkably forward thinking initiative by Lewisham council. Citizens send in photos of problems (graffiti, flytipping) and they all go up on a gallery. Then when the problem is sorted they’ll text you to let you know. Since these sorts of things are generally identified by a small team of wardens a lot of stuff is usually missed. Genius. (via)
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
A much richer system was developed right here in Birmingham but the City Council has failed to recognise it. It began after the New year shootings in Aston in 2002 and has developed into ‘Respect Our Neighbourhood’. It is not that Lewisham is forward looking, it is that Birmingham systematically fails to engage
with the new. Here is a description:http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_communities/documents/page/odpm_comm_039384.pdf
The system is available to view live as a demonstration site if you wish to contact me. We are working on incorporating AI front & back-ends, data-mining, Flickr, and neighbourhood-centred learning using social constructionist approaches.
i have set up something similar from a resident’s perspective in kings cross north london.
http://northkingscross.typepad.co.uk/my_weblog/
we use a broader canvas – not just street issues. it came about after a long discussion on the mysociety call for proposals
http://www.mysociety.org/?p=208
but the use of images is equally deliberate, picture worth a thousand words etc