VocalEyes on your Smartphone!
We’re really pleased to anounce that VocalEyes is now available on Smartphones. Try it for yourself by typing vocaleyes.org or scan in the QR code at the bottom right of this page..
VocalEyes set to “Transform Local Infrastructure” in Herefordshire
We’re excited to announce our partnership bid with Herefordshire Voluntary Action and various other third sector organisations in the area to “Transform Local Infrastructure” has recently been approved by The Office for Civil Society. It is anticipated the project will commence in the spring.
VocalEyes to be Promoted to All UK Colleges & Universities in 2012
In the new year, 2012, VocalEyes will be promoted to all colleges and universities in the UK. This initiative will start with a mailshot inviting the relevant people within these educational establishments to select a date where the VocalEyes service and benefits can be conveyed via webinar at Pembrokeshire College.
Form there, interested parties will be asked to complete an organisation Need Analysis and relevant solutions will be proposed and agreed.
If you are interested in joining one of these webinars, please select a date from the form on THIS PAGE
VocalEyes Integrates with Mobile Phones
With support from the local AVS (Association for Voluntary Services), VocalEyes is being integrated in to TXT messaging to enable users to :
- Register
- Suggest idea
- Rate ideas
- Make comments
- Vote on proposals
This development is especially exciting as:
- it makes VocalEyes very accessible, even to those without an internet connection
- it enables people to come together in social spaces and perform real time voting
- it enables very quick response to articles/polls/surveys/consultations etc. within local media publications
VocalEyes currently being Mapped onto WKS Qualifications
Pembrokeshire College have begun the process of developing VocalEyes so that certain WKS (Wider Key Skills) can be obtained by using the system.
The majority of students at college will go for WKS qualifications. Currently they require approx 15 pages of paper base evidence which can become a chore for both student and teach er alike. Aside from this they can sometimes be somewhat “off topic” which further adds to the amount of effort required to complete them.
With theses qualifications mapped onto VocalEyes, for “Working With Others” for instance, the subject matter will the course they are on and the tasks will revolve around working with other classmates to improve the course they are on.
VocalEyes will then automatically gather the evidence required for the qualification massively reducing the time and effort required to compile this for submission.
More information on Wider Key Skills can be found here
VocalEyes set to “Transform Local Infrastructure”
VocalEyes has been included as the only technical aspect of a 400k bid to “Transform Local Infrastructure” in Herefordshire. VocalEyes has been acknowledged as having the ability to assist organisations & communities to become more self organising, encouraging co-creation and consequently more self sustaining and less reliant on outside help.
VocalEyes will contribute the reducing the impact of the budget cuts being felt accross the third sector.
More information on the fund can be found here
VocalEyes to integrate with Newspaper Publications
They will start with a pilot of the “Milford Haven Voice” in the Milford Mercury (10k readers) for 6 weeks in the new year. Below is a mockup of what this new section of the newspaper might lok like.
If the pilot project goes well and VocalEyes is proven to add value to the paper, the aim is to scale up the engagement and publicity, promoting the service via some of the other local news publications in the group.Community Voice & Interactive Newspapers
Here is a mockup of what Community Voice will look like when published in local newspapers:
Community Voice relaunched!
The original pilot run in The Haven community back in 2008 was done under the name “Community Voice. We’ve now relaunched Community Voice as 1 of a suite of services powered by VocalEyes.
Community Voice is set up to enable residents to priorities ideas and identify demand for projects within their communities. A report from the original pilot in The Havens community can be found here.
More info can be found here: http://www.community-voice.org
Huge International Interest
The IDEC & EUDEC 10 day conference was held last week with the aim of bringing together, sharing, learning & promoting democratic education throughout Europe and Internationally. It was attended by over 500 people representing over 30 countries.
VocalEyes was invited to present at the conference and generated a great deal of interest from the community. Plans are now being made for international pilots of VocalEyes starting in Puerto Rico, America, Ecuador and Israel amongst other places.
Various organisations have now not only shown interest in piloting VocalEyes but also becoming VocalEyes Development Partners and VocalEyes Licence Resellers of the service.
The technical development team has also grown with 3 additional people joining us bringing skills in mobile development, liquid democracy & QA testing and security.
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