Ed Dowding

The Postcode Paper – welcome to your neighbourhood

Science & Technology, Systems thinking

What a great idea, and fantastic use of liberated data:

[The Postcode Paper] gathers information about your area, such as local services, environmental information and crime statistics.

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It’s a prototype of a service for people moving into a new area. In our exercise we imagined you might receive it after paying your council tax for the first time.

It gathers information about your area, such as local services, environmental information and crime statistics.

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It’s not just data from central government – we also scraped TFL for travel times, and a bespoke spider map of transport options in our area.

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And there’s stuff from the NHS and the council.

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Source: Newspaper Club

Ed Dowding

Ed Dowding

Founder, strategist, writer, gadfly, TED talker, world-record holder, and (foolishly) reality-TV farmer. DOES: Innovation, Product, Advocacy THINKS: Regenerative Systems, Institution design, 300 year horizons

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