OBJECTIVES
Improve quality of life
- develop our present science based sessions at Soundskills to have a more ‘local’ emphasis
- making technology fun programme leading to an automatons & robot building competition
- start a programme of wellbeing sessions for primary school children at Brookfield Community Primary School with an emphasis on ‘preventative health’
- create an Odd Job ‘local repair’ service that does practical tasks (gardening, decorating, tip runs etc) for vulnerable people but essentially talks/listens to them and makes them feel more secure
- devise a ‘talking technologies’ network of homes where the issue of social isolation can be addressed through amazon echo devices
- pilot a number of ‘smart homes’ on the estate looking at how technology can reduce energy use and streamline life in the home
- begin a programme of ‘counselling training’ based around the ‘pampering model’ where we create a pool of local people who are good listeners and can signpost people to services
Counter changes in the labour market
- develop an equality driven local economy model based around 1. technology based employment like web & app design, music devices, cottage industry 3D printer initiative. 2. More sustainable income generation from Soundskills
- the creation of ‘meaningful’ voluntary roles on the estate (a new kind of career)
- ensuring that the importance of quality ‘human to human’ connection is central to everything we do and that ‘time saved’ for people by automation, is ‘time well spent’
Create a 20 year strategy
- begin the process gently with a ‘Future Brookfield’ event at the school (summer 2019) and build local peoples relationship with technology through practical usefulness and fun
- enable local people & key partners to buy into the strategy from education, health, technology, patrons, commercial sector, voluntary sector, arts sector, economics, statutory bodies, open-source community and city institutions
- align our initiative with The Preston Model and sustainable energy targets
- develop a local tech manifesto