Social Media And Rural Internet Connectivity Projects At Conkers

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social media and rural internet connectivity
@philcampbell from me.dm

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

basics.
★ 36 years young
★ i live in derbyshire

★ freelance consultant

★ adorable daughter (2 and a bit)

★ compulsive social networker

★ active on the internet for 17+ years

★ videoblogger for 3 years

★ build mashups for web 2.0 companies

★ daily 10 minute show “audiogravity”

★ early adopter on twitter since october 2006

★ 20 years + in computing

★ utilizing my http://me.dm (blog)

★ created the http://ammoboxproject.com

★ part launched the http://conkertu.com project


how it all came about.. . all from twitter.


how it all came about.. . all from twitter.
★ @hedgewytch suggested me to @zerocredit_uk
★ me and emma (@zerocredit_uk) met for coffee

★ i melt emmas brain with all things social media about zerocredit

★ original idea emma wanted to talk about we never did.

★ instead we have coffee again at conkers and decide to do a

tweet-up at conkers bringing together sustainability and
environmental authoritative people in this space with
★ my mind starts to think about interesting applications for this

national forest ambient place on my doorstep.
★ conkertu.com is created

★ tumblr is used as free hosting platform for a blog - we build a

custom theme for it and start work on a geo media map.
★ crowdsource basic sponsoring, food and conkers agree to allow

us to host it donating space and coffee.
★ we do all of this in four weeks.


CONKERTU LAUNCHED 28th November 2k9

the ﬁrst sustainability/eco uk tweetup
in the geographic heart of the national forest.


. . erm, what i was actually thinking at the time.

‘a chance redirection on twitter that had me spending
four weeks working on the potential to change the
local economy in a rural location by bringing together
the local community parishes to crowdsource a fast
ﬁbre connection whilst enabling the parishes to
communicate better’


'the long here, the big now and other tales of the networked city'

adam greenﬁeld | http://speedbird.wordpress.com
http://share.ovi.com/media/nokiaopenlab08.nokiaopenlab08/nokiaopenlab08.10033


a video/visual directory for locality
geo tagging and media making.

so why did i get involved in the project?


so why did i get involved in the project?

‘it looks like any enemies space weapon from a
james bond ﬁlm with solar panels’

the search for connectivity ‘dreaming of HD open air theatre’


connectivity issues hyperlocal but not communicating.


the great ﬁbre provider

http://posterous.com


digital inclusion hyperlocally

http://posterous.com


http://moiraﬁrestation.posterous.com

raise awareness of local issues

http://moiraﬁrestation.posterous.com

but why would they want it?
- speed ( most places barely get 1meg)
- cost (10 meg up and down - £30) a month
- build realtime communities
- interactive at conkers
- communicate events more often
- hyperlocal business directory
- realtime ordering, tracking and delivery.


crowdsourcing the ﬁbre


http://kickstarter.com - crowdsource funding

transparent technology
to drive local economy


what could be done?
- local suppliers from bakers & farmers
- local couriers and gps tracking
- enhance interactive offering at conkers
- network local stores with their promotions
- tweet’a’box - arduino based
- HD live streaming from outdoor events
- provide more bandwidth to local companies


local small content producers
realtime & hyperlocal

so what’s next.
- regular meetings with local community
- create ‘ranger’ blog presence
- international/us kickstarter ﬁbre funding
- raise sponsoring for tweetabox @ conkers
- speak to bakertweet about equipment
- solar powered wireless access points
- mockup a portal layout for the locality
- ﬁnd a local baker & farmer to install
bakertweet style boxes for tweet testing


‘all comes down to money’

thanks!
★ http://twitter.com/philcampbell
★ 07590 602896

★ me@me.dm

★ http://me.dm

★ http://me.dm/link/rural [QT]


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