need for travellers and citizens in rapidly deveoping economy to get best use from transport system.
These are all the proposals that we got. The winner was announced on 27th September 2006. You can still read the proposals, and think about them. Leave comments, ideas, criticism, thoughts. Maybe you or someone else will implement some of the proposals which didn’t win. You can find the criteria that we used on the submissions guidelines page.
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relates to trying to contact you and e mails coming back when the fax your MP is being illegally maladministrated by PAs MPs with no DISCRETION
This is a program which would make recreational sport in London easies and people would be more informed what is going on in their area or in discipline they are into. By simply putting in your post code, or sport discipline, date or ability, you find out where is your nearest sport facility, sport shop, bike shop, or just something happening etc.. People be also able to post their experiences with different stuff to do with leisure in London. This website should be as friendly to use as possible. You can find many websites which deal with different types of sport but would be good to have something simple and friendly to use. Also finding people doing the same thing in the same area, would be great. There is for example the Friday Night Skate, which is well organized, so everybody knows about it. There are other things which people don’t know about or just simply find partner to go rollerblade, run or cycle on a particular day. Information on the www would fill up by users and can be flagged by quality and popularity, so you can always know what is good and what is bad.
The international public, as well as NHS organizations, are remorselessly targetted for the sale of inappropriate pharmaceuticals at inflated prices. The corporations work within a system of legalized monopoly and hide important information. We need a presentation of the facts drawn from different sources that can be used as the first line of defence. It would also point out what information we do not know, suggesting the questions that investigators should be looking into.
It’s expensive to advertise jobs in traditional media (print, or online job boards), which means that low-wage jobs are not advertised, or are advertised only incredibly locally (a poster in the shop window).
People today are crying about getting taken for their dollar by purchasing homes that are defective. I purchased land back in the 1980s and it’s time to develop it.If you are looking for people who are looking for other avenues of investment, you might want to look at what I’m doing in the Dorchester, MA area.
I have ‘Incorporated in Las Vegas, NV USA, for legal purposes and to show legitimate business Enterprise, with eventual expansion to the Las Vegas area in the future. I am looking to build
Two-two family ‘Condo’ units in the metro-Boston, MA area, on land I own. The units will sell for between $380,000.00 and $400,000.00, price range. These are and will be the state of the art units with many features most modern homes of a higher price range contain. I can do this because I do not have to include the cost of buying the land.
My ‘Business Plan’ is to raise monies that will aid in the procurement of a construction loan: construction is to start this summer,
your monies will go into a protected account and serve as collateral for my construction loan – twelve months, I’m looking for fast sales and pre-construction sales; when the project is sold, the account is closed, you are paid with an earned interest rate of 18% on your principle. This is a contractual Agreement.
I feel the re-payment schedules are straightforward and simple: You invest:
$10,000.00 twelve months or sooner you are paid $11,800.00
$20,000.00 ” ” ” ” ” ” ” $23,600.00
$25,000.00 ” ” ” ” ” ” ” $29,500.00
$30,000.00 ” ” ” ” ” ” ” $35400.00
$50,000.00 ” ” ” ” ” ” ” $59,000.00
$100,000.00 ” ” ” ” ” ” ” $118,000.00
$480,000.00 ” ” ” ” ” ” ” $566,400.00
Your money is never touched, but acts as collateral for the construction load.
Should the project not sell at the advertised prices, and then it is sold at market value and the investors are paid and I absorb the lost.
Ted Lewis
CEO ‘Living Life At A Different Level’
There are many different ways to get from A to B. Walking, training, flying, driving, taxi, coaching or blagging a lift with someone. Every time, I spend ages running through all the options, working out the various pros and cons.
It would be great if I could share this information with others.
For example, my current trip takes me from Edinburgh to Cardiff. KLM want £1,250 for a flight via Amsterdam. Using some not very advanced local knowledge, and a willingness to do a little driving, I can get to Bristol and hire a car for £125 all in.
Another : if there are four of you, travelling up to 100 miles can often be almost as cheap in a taxi as on the train.
Lastly, London is the classic example here. How often have you (or known someone) spend 30 mins, on three tubes to do a journey that would probably take 2 mins to walk?
If there are two or more individuals in a community who desire to pull themselves out of the hole of apathy and powerlessness, they can introduce a hybrid system of physical/virtual decision making (already developed in NSW Australia). The virtual part is www.1062.org. This hybrid system is fair to both computer literate and non-computer literate citizens. This system has the potential for enabliing the community members to exercise whatever level of authority they choose.
A central place to help people write a letter to their local newspaper. For individuals, it makes it easy to find out what local newspapers you have, and it saves you having to look up the address. For organisations (e.g. campaigining charities) it makes it easy to encourage your supporters to write to their local newspaper.
In a globalised market we need a global tool for making our consumer power count, whether it is changing a corporation’s global policy or a small gripe about a local public service.
A resource that not only helps us find sources of info about and sign-up to boycotts big and small, but also regularly communicates to the target company the number of people boycotting and what the company needs to do to stop the boycott.
Supporting small businesses and independent shops, local libraries, swimming pools, churches, post offices - whatever you think a fantasy high street should contain.
This is a rough concept but an idea I have heard many people voice
It would need a panel as well as a web. They would need to be seen as worldwide and contextual experts in justice but the job assigned to them would not be too onerous. For example, quarterly approve a batch of risk statements each to be added into its own communal thread. Where necessary edit the language of the risk goal to unite rather than divide everyone
Typical panel members might include Peter Eigen of Transparency International transparency.org , Oded Grajew of the world social forum, Bill Drayton of ashoka.org- all of whom who have devoted a lifetime of work to understanding risks globalisation is in danger of compounding onto digitally divided or otherwise discriminated against communities. The panel should have a representative of all major religions, races etc that have a significant poverty population in their midst. We are looking at risks that wave beyond borders.
Examples might be:
organic - reduce the risk of cancerous poisons in out food and water chains
end petroleum economics addiction with a special effort to develop a package tour guide to all open photosynthesis and sunshine experiments
The threads would also need moderating. But instead of long debating posts, the webs community would be encouraged to vote on most urgent risks and to catalogue simple questions - a question might be which global market sector has the most responsibility for reducing this risk if all its largest organisations collaborated?
In parallel to the thread of questions, we might have a 2nd column where accredited journalists or other open survey institutes announced links to any research of the question they were following up.
The idea of this web is not to do too much but to prepare the way. For example, some of the risks and questions might at a next step become a series for the BBC or other public broadcaster to raise in a world service and scaled way. Step by step advances in transparency mapmaking and cross-cultural reconciliation are do-able now but if we wait even one more decade the consequences for sustainability of all peoples are, according to various independent mathematical models, not good.
People standing as MPs or councillors want to get elected. Voters (I hope) would welcome the chance to be able to differentiate between the names on the ballot (beyond party allegiance).
Your utilities companies, your internet company, your mobile phone companies, your online bank, your home shopping supermarket, and a hundred other companies who you do remote business with in your lifetime all keep records of you.
They keep records of your billing details, personal details, and crucially - your conversations with them. The phrase ‘I’m just looking back through your notes’ must be familiar to everyone who has ever had an ongoing complaint with a major service provider.
Consumers have a need to be able to keep the same records of their conversations. Contemporaneous written notes can help you keep your story straight when having to explain it for the tenth time to the tenth different person you’ve been put through to. They can also help if you ever have to resort to small claims court action.
UK Freedom of Information legislation allows individuals to make requests for information to various public organisations and receive responses. However, there is a bewildering array of different organisations that you can make requests to, and there is no straightforward way of finding out what requests others have made, and what response they received. This proposal is to apply social networking to freedom of information.
Linking to Maps. Dynamic.
I would link, if OK and possible to link to Maps, etc.. Looking to link to Dynamic Maps e.g. I do not have to make change, you make updates your end and the map image link on my site updates automatically.
These links would be added, at least to my page (Maps and Travel. Route Planners. How to get there. Bus times, Train Times, Ferry times. Aeroplane Times ( http://www.acomputerportal.com/maps_and_travel.html )) on the site below
A Computer Portal. Freeware, Shareware. Download software. Computer languages and Programming code. Including PERL Scripts and Java Scripts. Webmaster Tools. Internet Marketing, Website promotion. Hardware Help from BIOS to Windows and UNIX.
http://www.acomputerportal.com/index.html
I’ve been struggling to establish real democracy in my home country of Bermuda. Typical politics works much too slowly and the system of “representative democracy” simply does not match the growing needs of present times.
I decided what was needed was an online collaborative effort to build a platform of the people. So that each individual can work to build the ideal political platform to give to their representatives as a guide to what the people want to see happen.
I have grown much too tired watching as small groups decide the will of the people in a top down approach when really politics should be about all people involved from a bottom up approach.
Currently in the UK (and globally) there is a profound ‘democratic deficit’.
In other words, there is a disconnection between the decentralised political campaigns run on the ground and the mainstream political institutions that are meant to represent and enact the needs and will of the people.
In particular, the electorate are now massively alienated from Parliament.
This does not mean, as is often suggested, there is mass apathy.
People are as politically active, vibrant, and creative as ever.
They are simply failing to listen to those whose profession is politics, and many of those whose profession is politics are failing to listen to the people.
To regenerate our mainstream institutions we need to build as many bridges as possible (with as few tolls as possible) between the people, between different campaigns, and the politicians.
With the rapid change in climate and geopolitical strife possible in our lifetimes, we will see mass migrations of peoples. History has shown us that the movement of peoples has inevitably damaged or destroyed the social fabric that creates unique, diverse, and necessary cultural wisdom.
This is aimed primarily at university students, although has equal applicability to the wider student body.
There are plenty of events for students to get involved in to stimulate their interest in the wider world and community - model UNs, model EUs, moot courts, essay competitions, etc. However, it’s very hard to find out what’s going on, and how to get involved, to the extent that it’s often the same people time after time.
