Critical Friends You may have read that Kent Connects is organising a competition, aimed at stimulating collaboration between

public services, digital entrepreneurs and students, to develop innovative ways of using technology to improve communities. Weve had over 10,000 views and over 60 ideas submitted on how people can use technology to help people help each other or make it easier to report local issues. You can see these at http://bit.ly/submityouridea which is the first ever local challenge on the governments competition platform. The Developing Solutions Event on 25 November will enable web & software developers and designers to develop or design prototypes that meet one of two challenges OS Open Data or Open 311, which are detailed below. For more information, please see http://developingsolutions.eventbrite.com. The prototypes of these challenges will be showcased at the end of the day and reviewed by judges. You will be asked in the afternoon to advise the judges on the prototypes based on what youve seen throughout the day and how the prototypes would work in a public service or community environment. Were not expecting more than 10 prototypes so you shouldnt need to be too overwhelmed! The winners of each challenge will win 100 each. Web Designers Officers with knowledge of designing wireframes and mock-ups of user interfaces or with expertise in interaction design or user experience You will provide advice to external web designers at the event who want to design visual prototypes on how these might work in a public service or community environment. Examples of visual prototypes include Magnifeye and MyPolice. Name Tracy Jones Position Website Officer Partner Tunbridge Wells BC

GIS Developers Officers with knowledge of using OS Open Data or OS Open Space You will provide advice to external developers at the event who want to develop prototypes making use of OS Open Data on how these might work in a public service or community environment. Examples of prototypes that have made use of this data include Fix My Transport, Cycle Streets and Mission Explore. Name Nathan Carr Glyn Davies Ian White Position GIS Manager Emerging Technologies Analyst GIS Officer Partner Swale BC Kent CC Gravesham BC

Web and Software Developers Officers with knowledge of developing software prototypes, database design, APIs or outline code You will provide advice to external developers at event who want to develop web, software or smart phone prototypes on how these might work in a public service or community environment. Examples of web or software prototypes include FearSquare or Playtter. Name Keith Pinchin Andy Houstoun Neil Thompson Analysts / CRM You will provide advice to external developers at event who want to interface with CRMs or develop web, software or smart phone prototypes on how these might work in a public service or community environment. Mark Hudson Michael Best Analyst Programmer Analyst Programmer Swale BC Swale BC Position Programming Analyst Business Applications Manager Senior Systems Developer Partner Dartford BC Gravesham BC Shepway BC

Communications / Customer Services Officers / Project Managers Officers with experience of understanding the perspective of the customer

You will provide advice to web designers and developers on how typical public service users might interact with the ideas theyre developing. Name Ian Hirst Raymond Warren Position Transformation Project Manager Business Delivery Unit Manager Partner Tunbridge Wells BC Tunbridge Wells BC

What are the Challenges? There are two challenges people can submit a prototype to. Open Data Challenge If people want to enter the Open Data Option, they will have to fulfil the general criteria for designing or developing prototypes (see "What's the criteria to win?") but there is additional criteria too - the prototype will need to make use of OS Open Data. What do you mean by "prototypes that make use of OS Open Data"? You can see examples of prototypes making use of OS Open Data here. Examples of prototypes that have made use of this data include Fix My Transport, Cycle Streets and Mission Explore. As you can see, many of these prototypes use OS Open Data and they use other open data too. Here is a list of other open data that they could use and Open Kent or its API (although not mandatory). Open311 Challenge If people want to enter the Open311 Option, they will have to fulfil the general criteria for designing or developing prototypes (see "What's the criteria to win?") as well as make use of Open 311. You can see examples of prototypes making use of Open311 here. Examples of prototypes that have made use of this include San Francisco and Baltimore. You can see more on Open311 here. To use Open311 click on the View the GeoReport v2 API Specification link) and if people do want to the API Key to test their prototype, they can contact us. Otherwise, we'd recommend this mailing list if you have any general questions about this standard. You can also use a web service to take requests for a common authority services, redirect them to the correct authority and create a case in the councils CRM or pass the information to the appropriate section within the authority. Please see more information here and for any queries do

contactmark.hudson@swale.gov.uk. You may be wondering what we mean by prototypes. Here is a brief explanation although do contact us and we'll try and answer any further clarification before the event! What's the criteria to win? In order to be considered, each submission must include a weblink to the prototype (whether that's a visual, mock web/smart phone app page or code) and a description of how it will meet the criteria. The more evidence people provide to show how good their prototype is and how much potential it has, the more chances they have of getting others to want to help them develop it on the day and of course winning the competition. We recommend people get others to help develop the prototype before the event, so that they have a better chance of winning! The table below will help you see how the Judges will review the prototypes. Submission Questions Score (1- Weighting Overall 5) (1-5) Score (Score x Weighting) Which Judges will require you to N/A N/A N/A Challenge are enter this information to you entering be able to judge the rest of the criteria Which Theme Judges will require you to N/A N/A N/A does it fall under enter this information to be able to judge the a Whats the How creative the name of 1 name of your the prototype is prototype? What idea/s are How well the prototype 4 you developing builds on one or more of your prototype the ideas put forward in on the Developer Day Ideas Competition How are you How well the prototype 5 going to develop could be used by the it? target audience What tools and How well the tools and 3 techniques are techniques put forward you going to use could turn the prototype to develop it? into a working application What help wouldHow well the people you require at putting forward the the event to prototype have described complete your the help they need to prototype? complete it (i.e. need web Judging Criteria

designer to design wireframe for x, developer to develop a prototype app for y, user experience analyst to develop a user interface, coder to create some outline code)