The RSA Digital Engagement working group (#RSAde) teamed up with Lancaster University Business School to pitch an idea to the Interactivism hackathon, taking place in London this weekend. We were truly chuffed when our EZPZ browser concept got picked (pronounced “eezy peezy”). It’s a simple browser for older people who aren’t familiar with using the Internet.
Now we just need to build the darn thing!
The photo shows Daniel Cater, Roxanne Persaud and Isabel Dias. Roxanne is an old-hand at RSAde stuff. Daniel and Isabel…? No idea where they came from – but they’re fab!
Unfortunately, I could only be there for this morning but the energy was great. Around 100 people buzzing round the basement of the LBi building in Brick Lane. A wonderful mix of Google developers, Futuregov people (who organised the event), Gransnet (providing insight into accessibility issues) and all sorts of students, consultants and enthusiasts in between.
By the time I left, our self-selecting team had ten great people: really looking forward to following the #interactivism tag on Twitter and finding what great stuff develops – best of luck, EZPeople!!
Main photo: screenshot of Daniel (second left) and others working at Google Interactivism: Young People’s Hack (Vimeo) – you can hear Daniel being talking about our team at 04:32 minutes in.
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UPDATE: We won!!! Read all about it on Futuregov’s blog.
This event was part of my engagement work with the RSA
