1) The document proposes several ideas for community initiatives, including a device to help elderly people make emergency calls, a community garden for growing food, and a local digital newspaper.
2) Other ideas involve creating a website to help people invest their money, a mobile app to provide locally relevant news, and a community center offering activities and services.
3) The proposals aim to bring community members together, share information, and support health, education and local businesses.
1. A device that helps the elderly and disabled to make quick easy emergency calls
My idea is to create a special device for the elderly. This device will be used in case of emergency. As many retired
people around 80 have to live alone without any help, it will be ideal to come up with a very simplified version of a
phone. This “phone” will enable them to call close relatives, doctors or 999 with the pressing of a button. As they are
not receptive to last minute gadgets, it will look like a remote control with 5 to 7 key buttons which once pressed will
direct their calls to important contacts. This idea will primarily help older people who are living at home alone but
could also help the disabled.
A community based garden to productively use spare time
Our idea is an indoor and outdoor community garden where local residents can grow their own fruits and vegetables,
acquire new skills and offer afterschool activities to the youth. Training can be included to make jam and provide a
platform for people to sell it. It would benefit everyone in the local area, people with free time will have something
productive to do and outside parties will be able to buy the local produce. Most of the technology involved would be
through advertisement, introducing the idea to people through the use of tablets. SMS updates of garden state can
be distributed to growers to keep them updated, and an app for taking produce orders could be designed. This
would help acknowledge the demand for jam, and create a small community based business.
Local Newspaper Creator
My idea is to create a digitally uploaded newspaper that the community works towards and shares between
themselves. Articles produced would come directly from the local community and the borough councils to try and
share information between residents in the local area. A Facebook page would be created to inform all the members
of production dates and give residents a platform to put forward their own stories. This idea would help nearly all
members of a community and would be both easy to download and to upload to. This would allow residents to share
their opinions and ideas and involve the entire community. Stories could be voted on by residents to allow more
important/interesting stories to be shared more thoroughly.
Easy Investor
My idea is a website that helps to invest in shares and find ISA‟s, finding the best deals for the time and alerting
them when a new opportunity is about and its rates have changed. Gives basic help and information for those willing
to „Do it yourself‟. It would help people interested and used to investing in shares and looking to invest in an ISA, and
have an interest in doing it for themselves. It would be a simple layout, easy to compare and contrast differences in
prices and all payable through the website through direct debit. Find and keep track of how their money is improving.
People would create an account, go online and go through comparisons for share shows trends; if they wish to buy a
share or ISA can be done through direct debit, with a small fee. Then the phone app can help them keep track of
their shares and what their money is doing. The account they own would also have an online balance to make
transactions easier.
An app which provides you with useful information for your area
My idea is an application that pulls information from local news websites and allocates certain categories to them.
Only the news stories with the categories you are interested in will be displayed on your app; and only local stories
will be shown. This idea will help residents of the area as they will be a little more aware of what is going on in their
community but not have to wade through the massive amount of news they don't care about. The location or
postcode would be found through GPS and the app will be able to tailor the news stories received from that
information alone. If you travel to a new area you will have the choice of gathering the local interesting news stories
or using a recently used postcode. The app would be on the Smartphone.
2. Free Social Zone
My idea is to create a special place for all people from a neighbourhood; a relaxing, cosy space that will also be
online in order to make public the meetings, and to involve young and older people. It would help to bring the
community together and organise events within the area. Announcements about online meetings will be sent by
email to all who have signed up to the neighbourhood space. On the space they will be able to talk about their own
needs, the events in the city, the facilities that they found good to implement in the neighbourhood.
Software to helps youth learn the importance of education
My idea is to build a centre where a lot of activities could be gathered together in the same place without having to
travel a lot, since the communities may have low income or their own cars. Therefore in this centre, the facilities you
can find would be: an IT room, workshop, health centre, library and rooms to teach with entertainment rooms also. It
would help face-to-face interaction in the community, help finding a job and would create new jobs through opening
the centre. Users of the centre would have to register by going to the secretary and filling in a form. They will then be
given an ID so they can have access to any facilities inside the centre.
Parents should take care of their children to gain relatively high educational background to be successful in their
future life. Children are supposed to change family history of a poor educational knowledge. It would help children,
parents, and the government will lower unemployment rate. Children can earn achievements and can use any new
PC version. At the point when they earn their first money they can buy any iPhone. They will be authorised to apply
for a well-paid job position and achieve their goals.
A Social/Sport centre that's held together by an off-site application
My idea is to build a sports/social centre, where people will be able to gather together to chat and share ideas, while
improving their health. The centre will help to build friendships via face to face interaction. The centre will represent
the idea of helpful employees and encouraging leaders within the groups and meetings. It will primarily help people
that need contact with others of the same age and interests. The centre will incorporate a lot of group work. An app
will be created, for people to be able to communicate outside the centre and keep in touch. Moreover, the app will
have functions like making appointments for different groups and being able to chat via the app with people within
the centre. People will gather together, talking about the topics they really care and worry about, at the same time
improving their health and social skills.
Community Club
My idea is to create a community social club with a golf course, a gym and networking events. It would help more
residential middle aged people. It would allow them to interact with one another face to face and have the
opportunity to have fun together.
Local Health Organisation
My idea is an organisation which looks after the health of the people there, like regular check-ups and treating them
regularly if they are suffering from any disease. That organisation would charge them very little so that they are
attracted to that and this will therefore help the people using them and live healthy. It would help people living in that
area who are not well and healthy and want to cure themselves. Technology would make things go faster and
smarter. Could be more reliable. An app could also be created which would help people to know whether they need
a health check-up.
A natural supplement to help improve immunity
My idea is to offer a full package of how to be healthy and even make some money. Develop a natural supplement
that will raise immunity. Offering health education classes and private psychology sessions. As a target to make the
mind, body and soul healthier. The clients can make money because the system will be MLM. The people would get
a better understanding of how the human body works and how to have a healthier life. The technology would work
buy cultivating, producing, export, importing, depositing and distributing. It would be used a food supplement.