Information and Signposting Project - Overview

Project Structure

The project will last initially for 12 months, until September 2009. Alongside governance and project management aspects, the initiative is delivered across four interlocking themes:

• Gathering: This area of work focuses on identifying, collating and aggregating data on positive activities.
• Processing: This strand delivers the relevant tools, infrastructure and assistance to enable data aggregation, and also an effective and robust platform from which to publish.
• Presenting: This strand develops effective, attractive and appropriate ways for people to access and feedback on information on positive activities – from feeds to websites and digital television to social network widgets!
• Learning: This strand focuses on the evaluation and learning from the project and is driven by ongoing consultation and the active participation of young people in the generation of content and feedback.

Pilot Areas

The first year of the project will be delivered in the following 20 pilot Local Authorities:
Lewisham, Islington, Birmingham, Walsall, Coventry, Blackpool, Bolton, Halton, Knowsley, Salford, Nottingham, Doncaster, Hull, Wakefield, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, South Tyneside, Leicester, Blackburn.

Project Partners

The consortium, made up of the following partners, Channel 4, Digi TV, National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, WCL and YouthNet, will be working in these Local Authorities and will be supported by a number of additional delivery partners including Young Advisors, Nemisys, RadioWaves, Stardotstar and four23.

Young people themselves will be at the centre of the project as they access, create, share and comment upon activity information.