Technology and Social Action - User stories

Sharing my knowledge

AndyDearden — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:00:21 +0000

Sarah is an artist and mother of two young children, who
volunteers at the local urban farm cafe from 11am to 2pm every day. She uses the
Web to source local suppliers and ingredients. She has started her own
spreadsheet of recommended sources and updates a webpage regularly so that other
people can use her research. She would like to turn the page into a more useful
resource by making it a proper database and giving trusted others access to
updating it. She also wants to develop a wider regional profile for it, to

Describing my idea

AndyDearden — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:52:28 +0000

Fred is a professional facilitator in the field of urban
development. He has become interested in the potential of public screens to
stimulate creativity in local youngsters, but he has no background in the
technology. He attended Urban Screens Manchester 07 and his Google search has
revealed the existence of several research projects in related fields, so he is
now quite clued up about other work in the area but hasn’t yet hit upon someone
doing exactly what interests him. He lives in Liverpool, where BBC 24 plays in

Publicising an opportunity

AndyDearden — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:49:42 +0000

Jane works for a UK funding body which currently has a pot of
money to develop social enterprise responses in the field of preventative health
care with particular emphasis on midlife issues such as obesity, blood pressure
and healthy eating. She is looking to ensure that the call being written to
encourage the submission of bids reaches the sector at large. The call specifies
that the organisation is seeking innovative approaches to preventative health
from within England and Wales. This could take the form of a public campaign, a