Ideas for Bristol

Ideas for Bristol was a crowds​ourcing website that was developed to engage and involve the city's residents in the redevelopment of the city centre.

Type of content: Assets
Type of asset:
Use case
Data source
Big data potential
No
Policy domains: Urban Planning & Transport
Phase in the policy cycle:
Policy Implementation
Open license availability
No
Ease of use
High
Tags: Smart City Smart Government Citizen-centred policy-making
Addresses:
SWOT Analysis for
Ideas for Bristol
Helpful Harmful
Internal
Strengths• Gives local residents the opportunity to contribute their own ideas on how they wanted to shape the city and refine these with other people.
• Enhances citizen participation: people could put forward ideas, comment on and rate ideas put forward by other people, tag contributions, map their ideas, share photos and videos, and push content to their wider social networks through Facebook and Twitter
Weaknesses• No longer available site
• Marginalizing certain groups of the population: e.g. the elderly or lower class, since they are not using social media networks (or using them to a lesser extent or for different purposes).
• Need for Internet connectivity
External
Opportunities• Crowdssourcing website, developed to engage and involve the city's residents in the redevelopment of the city centre.
• Enhances citizen participation: people could put forward ideas, comment on and rate ideas put forward by other people, tag contributions and share content to their social media networks.
Threats• Marginalizing certain groups of the population: e.g. the elderly or lower class, since they are not using social media networks (or using them to a lesser extent or for different purposes).

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