8/9/2019 Transformed by You - Innovation Camp Feedback
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Transformed by You EventsSummary Feedback
Background
This paper provides feedback on the two recent Transformed by
You events. Theevents aimed (in a single day), to bring together
local innovators, communityrepresentatives, micro businesses,
organisations, students and others to developprototypes for online
services. We used facilitated workshops to generate innovativeand
creative ideas among informal groups, although our approach was
slightlydifferent at both events in order to enable us to compare
the models.
The events were trialled as an alternative way of working
compared to traditionalforms of community engagement. It was felt
that the benefits could include
Positive engagement with partners ( Medway Council &
University of Kent)
Ability to test out a new way of engaging with a range of hard
to reach groups
and community members to co-create innovative solutions
Opportunity to develop community-generated ideas/prototypes for
online
services that could be incorporated into business activities
Awareness and publicity of partners as supporters of community
andinnovative working and of Kent as an Innovative County.
This approach to group working and innovation has been used at
an internationaland national level, often in the technology/social
innovation spheres, but has notbeen used by local authorities in
this way before. Previous national events have ledto development of
numerous co-created online services. It is interesting that three
ofthe ideas from both events were similar, both in regard of the
issue and the solution,possibly indicating an area for further
development.
Benefits
The events proved successful from both a participant and partner
perspective. Mainbenefits:-
Helping people develop ideas
Dynamic and innovative way to share and develop ideas
A good platform to enable communities to come up with their own
solutions
Interesting and varied prototypes emerged that could be used
internally
Involving the public in the event
Very productive way for participants to work closely with the
Council andothers
Provided opportunities to work with individuals that partners
would notnormally be exposed to (micros businesses, developers,
entrepreneurs etc)
Positive, cost effective and easily adaptable engagement
model
Inspirational has acted as a catalyst for further work and
engagement Strong involvement1 of the participants prior to the
event in generating and
voting on ideas to be tackled on the day
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