BBC RADIO 4'S YOU & YOURS PROGRAMME.

• 2 nominations
• 7 comments
• 31 May 2008

You and Yours is BBC Radio 4's award winning Consumer programme. It is broadcast every weekday between 12 o'clock and 1, attracting 3 million listeners a week. Online, thousands of people access additional information about the stories covered, download podcasts, access Transcripts, email the programme, and use the 'Listen Again' facility.

School of Everything

• 3 nominations
• 0 comments
• 17 February 2008

Great teaching is all about inspiring someone and for that, there's nothing quite like face-to-face communication. School of Everything is all about facilitating this kind of offline interaction using online tools to draw on the long tail of teaching talent that exists out there.

But School of Everything isn't just about connecting people, it's also about changing the way we learn and how we think about education. Traditionally, education has been a top-down affair. Teachers talk; pupils listen, whilst the system decides what it is they should know, how they should prove they know it and what they will get out of knowing it. School of Everything turns this on its head: everyone has something to teach - whether you're a professional tutor, a committed hobbyist or simply someone with something interesting to share. Learning is all about pursuing what you're passionate about, meeting new people and having fun - it's an end in itself, not just a means to an end.

The team has just secured their first round of investment and they're working away building a strong community of users, with support from the likes of the Young Foundation and Channel 4 Education.

Patient Opinion

• 9 nominations
• 4 comments
• 18 February 2008

Patient Opinion has grown from start up (Jan 05) into an organisation that is 100% supported by subscriptions from NHS and other organisations. There are now over 100 organisations participating in Patient Opinion and over the next few months we will begin accetping postings about mental health trusts, ambulance trusts, and directly provided PCT services (District Nurses etc) across England.

Patient Opinion is also exploring how patient feedback can be used by a wide range of groups including over 30 national patient organisations, a small groups of MPs, Scrutiny Commitees and emerging LINks organisations.

We believe Patient Opinion's on-going commitment to learning how best to use the new tools fo the web to further local engagement and discussion around health is unique and likley to yield significant results and some deep insights into how best to use these new techniques to expand civil society.

Patient Opinion's innovative track record has been the main topic discussed in articles in both the Guardian and the Economist.

The Big Green Switch

• 1 nomination
• 9 comments
• 31 March 2008

This is a consumer-facing website empowering people to make choices that help them live a greener life.
It offers independent information and advice for those who want to be more environmentally-friendly and encourages visitors to share their own ideas and experiences via community message boards, comment panels and blogs.
Its aim is to encourage people to learn about being green without feeling pressured or lectured. The site also includes tools and features such as a green products shop, environmental jobs search engine, carbon footprint calculator and a directory of other green websites, businesses and organisations.

What Do They Know?, by mySociety

• 1 nomination
• 4 comments
• 18 May 2008

What Do They Know? is the new latest site from mySociety. Users choose the public authority they'd like information from, then write a brief note describing what they want to know. The site then sends your Freedom of Information request to the public authority. Any response they make is automatically published on the website for the user and anyone else to find and read.