What makes a great Jailbraking idea?
We’re two weeks into our hunt for brand new ideas to help break the cycle of youth offendng and we’ve been putting a lot of thought into what makes a great Jailbraking idea.
Your idea might be about creating new opportunities for young people, helping keep communities safe, supporting people who’ve already committed an offence or anything else you can think of.
But we’ve come across a couple of existing tools and projects that have inspired us – and we hope they’ll get you thinking too!
The Boredometer is an application that sits on your Bebo or Facebook page, you tell it when you’re at a loose end and it makes suggestions for places you can go and things you could do.
Could you adapt the idea behind the Boredometer and tailor it to a particular age group, school or local area? Or are there ways to use a similar principle to help young people find jobs, training, education or other services?
Using the Safer Streets website, you can map where you feel safe or unsafe in a local area and the information you provide is put to use by local councils and police teams. And VoiceYourView is based on a similar idea.
Are there other uses for this kind of social mapping?
Horsesmouth is a mentoring website where you can sign up anonymously as a mentor or mentee. It’s a social network that aims to provide people with advice and support in an anonymous, supportive environment.
Could you use the web to create new opportunities for mentoring or peer support for young people who are at risk of offending or already part of the youth justice system?
This are just a few suggestions to get you thinking – you can read more on our examples page.
Think you can do better? Send us your idea! Remember it doesn’t have to be well-developed – it can be a plan or just a problem you want to solve. But you’ve only got till Friday, 26th February to enter through the Jailbrake site.
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