Discover a programme that brings together students, entrepreneurs & community groups to develop creative solutions to local challenges. We help train students to co-design solutions from uncovering local needs with the community to working with them to develop projects that can be taken forward. We evaluate the insights and impact of the needs & solutions to help public services better understand how to support communities to help each other & use technology.

1. Embrace your space:
using technology to
improve where you live

2. A major challenge takes place in
Canterbury this autumn that aims to
bring communities together to develop
innovative ways of using technology to
improve their neighbourhoods. We’re
asking local people to put forward their
ideas for projects and brings them
together with local developers to find
technology solutions.

3. Activities

4. Timeline
• People submit ideas online
9 Sep – 19 Oct
• People pitch ideas at Digibury Weekender
18 October
• Judges review top 10 ideas
20 Oct – 22 Oct
• People prototype solutions to ideas
23 Oct – 29 Nov
• People get together to finalise & showcase prototypes to
judges who award prizes
29 Nov
• Support winners to help them take their solutions forward
1 Dec – 31 Mar

5. Students &
professors
Residents of
East Kent
Community groups
Entrepreneurs
Digital agencies
& startups
We’re working with local people…

6. …to tackle local challenges

7. …using creative methods

8. Prototype ideas…
That deliver social impact… and help people help each other
Brainstorming ideas… using new technologies
Photos
by
www.tomphillipsphotos.co.uk
&
http://creativepeopleplace.info/creatabox-at-
home/

9. Developing the functionality Simulating the service
Validating the usability Designing the interaction
…to design solutions

10. Previous winners
2011 – Customer Transformation
• Help young people understand & tackle bullying
• Leveraged £90K to roll out across several schools
2012 – The Sunshine Bank
• Reward civic activity with a new social currency
• Launched website integrating social network tools
2013 – Smoking Chimney (Kemuri)
• Create connected sensor service to reduce dehydration
• Shortlisted for Nominet Trust & EIT ICT Labs Challenge

11. Why sponsor the competition?
Associate your brand with a pioneering way of connecting
local people & innovators to develop digital solutions to
meet local challenges
Engage with college & university student & professors,
startups & businesses and community groups & residents
Promote your brand at an event stimulating digital
innovation in the community

12. How could you benefit?
Nominate a representative from your
organisation to be a judge for the competition
Add your logo & marketing in print and online
literature of the competition
Highlight your brand in announcements at
workshops, at Digibury Weekender &
Transformed by You and makerspace launch day
Shape the Support Programme for the winners of
the competition

13. Sponsor the support
programme for
winners
• £3000
Sponsor a financial
prize for winners
• £3000 (Negotiable)
Gold Level Sponsorship

14. Sponsor a financial
prize for winners
• £1000
Sponsor the
Innovation Day
• £1000
Silver Level Sponsorship

15. Research: Help carry out market & user research to
understand and target potential customers
Business: Help develop a business model & plan to
pitch to investors and make the solution sustainable
Service design: Help support in designing the end to
end service for the solution
Communications: Help develop a communications
plan & branding to promote the solution
Coaching: Help coach the team / person to take their
solution forward
Bronze Level Sponsorship
The different options below are in-kind support. The level of in-kind support to be
negotiated with sponsor – between 1-3 days of consultancy.

16. Graphic & web design: Help provide graphic or web
design support for the solution
Web & software development: Help provide
development or programming support for the
solution
User testing: Help test the solution with users using
human-computer interaction
Digital making: Help advise how to make the best use
of 3D printing and other digital making
Other (contact us with your ideas for how you could
help)
Bronze Level (continued)
The different options below are in-kind support. The level of in-kind support to be
negotiated with sponsor – between 1-3 days of consultancy.

17. Supporter Level
Invite your members or
staff to take part in the
competition
Host a workshop to help
people develop ideas,
prototype or test solutions
Provide access to your
open data or APIs
developers can use
Host a workshop to help
people get online and/or
develop their digital skills
Blog and/or promote the
competition
Other (contact us with your
ideas for how you could
help)

18. Support Programme
Winners each get assigned a coach
who can help them make the best
use of the programme
Winners come up with joint
challenges they want help with. Local
people invited to fortnightly
/monthly meetups to help them
tackle challenges in an hour.
Winners choose what support they
need from the Silver Level
Sponsorship and receive 1:1 support
from the relevant sponsor
Winners meet up with Working
Group every fortnight to showcase
and peer review each other’s
progress
To help people take forward the solutions developed, we will develop a support
programme where participants can choose what specialist support they require,
complemented by collaborative activities with other participants & sponsors.

19. Support Programme (continued)
Winners also get group workshops on
each module from the Silver Level
Sponsorship organised by the
relevant sponsor
Winners take part in a field visit to a
space or organisation that uses
creative methods to use/develop
technology or use public space
Winners invited to showcase their
solutions at Kent Public Services ICT
Board, UKC Industrial Panel and
other relevant events organised by
partners

20. Previous sponsors

21. Previous supporters

22. What they said
“The best entries aren't
necessarily the technically
brilliant applications. It is more
about making something that is
provides a fresh, useful way to
make use of an existing service”
“It’s a great opportunity to be
really imaginative and yet
produce something that will
have a solid local impact and
helped create a network of
individuals”
“The best elements for me
included giving our activity an
edge and excitement, the time-
bound nature of the day, roles
on hand to help us out and the
facilitation making everyone
feel heard”

23. Get in touch!
Noel Hatch
noel.hatch@kent.gov.uk
03000410496

24. East Kent Transformed by you
Embrace your space:
using technology to
improve where you live