3. ALISS is…
ALISS helps people find
and share resources
that support health and
wellbeing.
4. ALISS partnership update
National Support Service Directory
Working with a new tech supplier
ALISS indexing local service databases: Grampian Care
Data etc.
Entering technical integration phase
Active Scotland
Confirmed that ALISS is the preferred option for the future
of the Active Scotland service database
18,000 + pieces of information
Proof of concept and are in the early phase of the data
migration process
5. Children and Families
Scottish Government Children and Families Directorate
The Redesigning Health Information for Parents (ReHIP)
Programme
National Third Sector GIRFEC programme
Localised Activity
Supporting the redesign of the Dundee HSCP health and
wellbeing information framework
In negotiation with North Ayrshire Council about a data link with
the CARENA system
6. ALISS programme update
We’re focusing on quality of information over quantity of
information.
We used A/B testing to help us come to decisions on
our technical work.
We’re almost ready to migrate some of the resources
from old to new ALISS.
We developed a simple chatbot to help someone find
information in Aberdeen about counselling.
17. Why?
How does ALISS impact
people’s lives?
• Think from both the searcher and
adder (professional).
• Write down what you think onto post-it
notes.
18. Task 2 – Our problem
• We are a small team, delivering a national service.
• Developing great information is difficult.
• Keeping information up to date is difficult.
• The path we take now will set us up for our next 3-5
years.
19. Task 2 – How others do it?
• Wikipedia uses a community of curators to ensure
their information is relevant and up to date.
• Google Maps uses a community of “local guides”
(curators) to ensure their information is relevant
and up to date.
• Yelp uses a community of curators to ensure their
information is relevant and up to date.
20. Task 2 – ALISS Approach
We are looking to develop a community of curators
throughout Scotland to help deliver great local
information.
These volunteers will be crowdsourcing our information
and this means:
• It will help us meet demand.
• Help with our limited capacity.
• Gain new perspectives.
• Build a community of trust.
• Engage a diverse audience.
21. Task 2 – Over to you…
1. What do we need to do before we start to engage
the volunteers?
2. How will they work with us?
3. How will we support them?
4. How will they know the difference they make?
22. Next steps
Write up of notes
Guided input – Open up testing to wider networks.
Support our message – Please support our
communications
Douglas (5 minutes)
Thanks for attending – great to see so many people with so much experience in the room helping us help people.
Housekeeping – no fire alarm, toilets, coffee break,.
Aim of the this Reference Group
To provide an update on the ALISS Programme
To ensure you all have the same message and understanding of what we are doing
To showcase our new ALISS product
To help us make a great programme and service that helps people who are disabled, living with long term conditions and unpaid carers.
Intro to team
We know what we do!
ALISS helps people find and share resources that support health and wellbeing.
We know how we do it!
We do this by managing a website and support people and organisations to find and share great local information.
But why?
We will use all this collected information to develop our communications and
We know what we do!
ALISS helps people find and share resources that support health and wellbeing.
We know how we do it!
We do this by managing a website and support people and organisations to find and share great local information.
But why?
We will use all this collected information to develop our communications and
Show golden circle paper.
Both from searcher and adder (professional)
Douglas (5 minutes)
These are all volunteers and in google maps 15,717 local guides in Edinburgh