DATA Play 2 winners

We received 14 ideas/proposals for DATA Play 2. The panel was made up of Adrian Hollister (Head of Strategy and Architecture at Plymouth University), Dom Jinks (Arts Professional), Sabrina Simpson (Cofounder of THINQTANQ), Rob McCarthy (CEO of GOSS), Kelechi Nnoaham (Director of Public Health for Plymouth), Chris Penberthy (Cabinet Member for Co-operatives, Housing and Community Safety) and members from the DATA Play team.

The following ideas won £2,000 to take their ideas forward:

Our Way Tech: Pop-up Past

Our Way Tech (a student led social enterprise based at Plymstock School) put forward an idea to create pop-up events to engage young people in the heritage of Plymouth. They suggested doing this by creating a virtual reality experience using the google cardboard, a cheaper more accessible version of the oculus rift virtual reality headset, making local heritage cool and intrinsically connected to technology.

Andrew Young and i-DAT: Plymouth tree database

Andrew Young and i-DAT proposed delivering a pilot database of amenity trees which is accessible through the internet and populated with live data. It will include a method of alerting registered users when information within their areas of interest changes. The database will be capable of uploading pictures with GPS location from mobile devices and provide the input to the i-Tree tool for calculating canopy benefits.

Plymouth Outdoors: Sports facility app

Plymouth Outdoors proposed developing an app for mobile devices which would enable users to locate their nearest sports facilities along with useful information. The app will allow a user to select a type of sport and then show on a map the locations of their nearest facilities for that sport alongside useful sport specific info for comparison.

This work is supported by the Department for Communities and Local Government through Delivering Differently in Neighbourhoods funding and Local Planning Reform funding.