Category Archives: Idea
Finding and Working with Health Assets
There’s a new concept abroad in health policy circles – ‘health assets’. Senior health policy leads are developing ideas for an Assets Alliance, which may figure at a location near you any time quite soon. ALISS has been lucky enough … Continue reading
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Mapping services
Since ALISS is all about location, location, location we’re interested to see how others are mapping services related to long term conditions. The MS Trust has put together a nice map of services around the UK showing local services from … Continue reading
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Ranting – in a good way
We’re going to be looking for ways to gather opinions and ideas during the project. Quick video clips could be a great way to capture these – something like Tole-rants which just launched to give a voice to ideas around … Continue reading
My public services
I’m off to My Public Services at the end of November and looking forward to hearing about some nice developments in public services on the web as well as being able to start telling people about ALISS. Of course the … Continue reading
Business Models and ALISS
A few times recently I’ve found myself either thinking about or in-conversation-and-thinking-about business models and innovation in general and ALISS in particular. ALISS hasn’t proven that easy to describe (despite best efforts at an elevator pitch originally) and our business … Continue reading
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ALISS ICT architecture development
It’s been a useful activity pitching the architecture development work to potential bidders – though I do hope that they haven’t been too baffled. The process this week and last, and to be continued across this month hopefully, has already … Continue reading
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Camping – it's that time of year
In the middle (19-21st.) of June, something called a Social Innovation Camp is taking place, in the middle of Glasgow. What is this you ask? It’s where social change meets technology. Have good ideas, build stuff collaboratively in no time at … Continue reading
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Sense-making and ALISS
I felt that there hadn’t been any writing on this aspect of our envisaged architecture yet, so here’s a start at filling this particular gap: a typical source of local information Let’s assume that some hunter-gathering has taken place, perhaps … Continue reading
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Crawling around on the web
We’ve been putting a certain amount of effort lately into thinking about how to recruit an army of hunter-gatherers, using the recent publication of the Experiences & Outcomes to be expected from the Curriculum for Excellence, as a sort of … Continue reading
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a thought on data-sources
One of the project’s valuable Critical Friends sent me a note the other day, after a discussion on where we envisaged acquiring our content from, at the Project Board in March. She had been “…wondering if this [end-user contribution] is … Continue reading
