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Thursday Apr 20, 2006
Submit ideas for mySociety's next project
Civic/community website builder, mySociety, is inviting proposals for new projects.
It's two and a half years since our last call for proposals, which led to us building four projects including PledgeBank.com and WriteToThem.com. At the time we had almost no funding and could only promise to try and raise money to build the projects. That worked, and now we've got a little bit of a surplus (charity language for a profit) left over from our government support.
The time has come to open the call for proposals up again, this time with one difference: we pledge to build the winning project, using a combination of some of the leftover cash and the help of any willing volunteers.
Even if you're short of inspiration for your own ideas, you can read and comment on other people's proposals.
Posted by Tom Green ( 9:09 AM ) Link to this post Comments[1]
http://www.mysociety.org/?p=154
"Essentially VCAS would be providing a 1-stop-shop portal for other voluntary advice and counseling services such as:
- The Samaritans
- Child-line
- Citizen¿s Advice Bureau
etc.
A proportion of the people that man their help-lines would be able to man new ¿ virtual¿ help-lines instead.
Essentially we¿d be helping existing advice lines to deliver their service in a different way.
This is the key to providing the Virtual Counseling and Advice Service at low or zero cost scalebility.
All you would need to do is provide a web-based system advisors and counsellors could log into and provide advice through."
Posted by Jonathan Juice on April 20, 2006 at 04:37 PM GMT+00:00 #