How it works
Jailbrake is a competition to find and support great ideas that could break the cycle of youth offending using simple web and mobile tools.
It kicks off with an open call for ideas followed by a weekend-long event.
The whole process works like this:
You can sign up to come to the Jailbrake weekend here.
And here’s a little more detail about how the Jailbrake competition works, from beginning to end:
1. Think of an idea
Think of an idea for how we might impact on the pattern of youth offending. Our ideas criteria and examples will tell you more about the sort of thing we’re after. Your idea will need to make use of simple web or mobile tools and it must be innovative.
2. Tell us about your idea
Send your idea to the Jailbrake team. There are some idea submission questions to help you explain what your idea is. Your idea can be ‘private’, in which case we won’t share it with anyone, or ‘public’ and we will post it online here for you or others to add comments.
3. Ideas are selected by the Jailbrake judges
From the ideas sent to us, our judges will choose the ideas which they think hold the greatest potential to positively impact on patterns of youth offending and will benefit most from coming to the Jailbrake weekend. All selected ideas will be published online.
4. Building a team
Once our ideas have been chosen, Jailbrake will help match you with people who bring different skills to help develop and build your idea. This might include software developers and designers, front line staff, commissioners, business advisors, service users and designers. By bringing different experiences and skills into the room we hope to support you to refine and develop your idea in the fastest and most effective way during a weekend-long event. We’re looking for people to get involved and join us for the Jailbrake weekend. Sign up here to come along.
5. The weekend, Friday 26th-Sunday 28th March 2010
Our aim is to transform a set of early-stage concepts into prototype services with a mock up business plan, ready to be funded and tested with real people – in under 48 hours. The Jailbrake weekend will be structured around the selected ideas, but you’ll be expected to organise your own time – often with people you’ve not met before – and there will be lots of discussion and practical hands-on stuff. No powerpoint in sight. You can find out more about how the weekend works here.
6. Show and Tell your prototype
By the end of the weekend you’ll be part of a team with a basic working model and business plan for a new project. The event will close with a Show and Tell pitching competition which will include prizes for ideas which demonstrate the greatest potential to create real change. But the journey doesn’t end there…
7. Take your project forward
Jailbrake aims to help build the relationships needed to start new projects. We’re hoping that by the end of the weekend, you’ll have started something you’ll want to continue to help grow.
Nesta – who are powering the Jailbrake competition – will support those Jailbrake projects that wish to go forward and secure backing from a service provider, for example, a local authority or third sector organisation. They’ll support teams with seed funding for the build and piloting of the idea beyond the Jailbrake weekend, together with project and venture development support.
