Connecting London

In 2010 izwe is going to be working with six London boroughs to improve how they relate to their people (especially the hard to reach), whilst building the foundations for significant efficiency savings across the boroughs. At the heart of the programme will be a community social networking platform which will support real-time social research of community perceptions and opinion.

The Connected London Programme has been designed to help local authorities and partnerships engage the hard to reach, create efficiency savings through better coordination of online and traditional communication and participation tools, and meet and exceed requirements related to the Duty to Involve, Duty to Promote Democracy and National Indicator 4.

Connected London is funded by Capital Ambition, London Civic Forum and the Department for Communities through the National Empowerment Partnership.

For more information, contact Meera at meera.sodha@izwe.com

Health 2010

In 2010 izwe will be working with four PCTs, supporting them in meeting and exceeding World Class Commissioning (WCC) Competency 3, 5, and 8, as well as their statutory Duty to Involve.

We will do this by delivering a radical improvement in their engagement performance, and at the same time create efficiency savings for partners through refining and integrating existing engagement, research and communication activity.

We are currently seeking applications from potential partners. Each partner will receive:

• a bespoke social networking website
• significant efficiency savings - through effectively targeting finite resources
• informed commissioning decisions in line with local needs and priorities
• innovation in designing and delivering responsive services
• new live data creation and management system
• 360 degree engagement (see page five of the brochure)
• significant increases in people actively engaged online.

In developing this programme we have worked with a number of key stakeholders including the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.

For more information see the Izwe Health 2010 brochure, or email health@izwe.com

Government Interoperability

As society becomes more mobile and resources more constrained, the need for common models of online engagement and shared platforms becomes increasingly acute.

Our intent is to create a future where citizens and governments alike can work together on common platforms whether you are in Britain, Bahrain or Bangkok. Through pooling our collective ICT resources we will be able to pool our social capital, and then anything is possible.

Izwe is working to develop standards and structures that enable governments nationally and internationally to share software and services.

We are working to support significant service quality gains and efficiency savings through enabling different public bodies to share common web platforms and the associated online tools.

For more information email Richard at richard.wilson@izwe.com

Leadership 2009

In 2009 we invited applicants from public bodies across the UK to work with us to take a step change in how they engaged online and face-to-face. From the many applications we received four public bodies were selected.

Each member of the programme is going through the following four steps:

Step 1 - Research: we will complete an audit process of engagement architecture & performance

Step 2 - Agree Engagement Strategy: based on step 1 - engagement strategy agreed

Step 3 - Social Network Development: the social networking site for opinion launched

Step 4 - Community Participation: targeted at engaging hard to reach.

Their initial sites will be launched in Spring 2010.

The programme is endorsed by National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and the results will inform the Empowerment Delivery work of the Department of Communities & Local Government (CLG).

For more information email nick.nielsen@izwe.com