Launch of B-Open Ideas Lab

by Verity on 01-Jul-10 13:39

I couldn’t move without bumping into a good idea yesterday at the launch on Media Sandbox’s B-Open ideas lab.

As part of SWS’s Creative Innovation Network for Innovation programme (iNet to its friends,) Media Sandbox threw the doors open to digital developers, creative producers and anyone with an interest in democratising content. The challenge was to engage with some of the newly released datasets from Bristol City Council covering council stats on areas like noise pollution, water quality, transport and education and make them informative, engaging and inspiring to the good people of Bristol.

Ideas ranged from creating a SimCity style interactive map of Bristol to show where council tax is being spent, to mulching down printed versions of the datasets and seeing which statistics grow the best potatoes!

B-Open and its partner strand ‘Pervasive Experiences’ are now open to submissions. See http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/ for more info.

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