The mission of the Tribe project is to directly address inequalities in local and national care and community support. Tribe represents a unique opportunity for collaboration between the most radical developers, providers and validators of advanced digital innovation and experts, innovators and proven community-centred drivers of social action models of care and support. This ground-breaking asset-based approach, co-designed with and validated by users and delivered through a combination of technology and people-power, will create new scale for the most personalised service delivery models by identifying local needs, mapping to an existing spectrum of care and support services, accelerating recruitment and training of care providers and delivering an assured skills and standards framework. Tribe targets the upskilling and development of community assets and the creation of connections between people seeking and people offering support, investing in areas of greatest need and highest inequality. Tribe's benefits include the creation of high quality employment, alignment of demand and supply of care and support services, improved health and wellbeing outcomes for older people and unpaid carers and an overall reduction in care costs. Tribe's novel model of service delivery will be rigorously quality-assured, engendering trust for commissioners, providers and users. The Tribe model will change the conversation regarding care, replacing traditional care 'packages' with dynamic, flexible and sustainable solutions to people's needs, blending local community and statutory services that work around the citizen. Tribe will challenge the culture of the existing care industry through a ground-breaking technology-enabled model that sees care micro-providers as community champions central to citizens' wellbeing and not as undervalued and overstretched assets.

Our proposal is centred on a digital approach to facilitate the scaling of 'trusted' community groups which are responding to COVID-19 community demand. Our focus will be to provide a solution to facilitate coordination, planning and action of broad spectrum community need between voluntary organisations and local government. We will be repurposing a Smart Cities base technologies to geospatially orientate, categorise and ultimately predict the movement of community 'need' across society through use of machine learning. We will grow and position community resources directly proportional to projected emerging community demand.

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"100CC will provide a connectivity platform that digitally includes the most vulnerable. By combining multiple services (healthcare, social care, communities and families services) on a single connectivity infrastructure 100CC will demonstrate how an orchestrated approach delivers wellbeing and business outcomes. This will improve quality of life and wellbeing outcomes for the individual while significantly reducing the cost of public service delivery. The project is tackling a genuine and stubborn societal need: bringing digital inclusion to the most disadvantaged. Some public services are fully digital (car tax renewal), but others have had mixed results (housing benefit reform, Universal Credit), or are still developing (social care remote monitoring). This is unequal because access to digital services is predicated on digital literacy and broadband access at home. Disadvantaged communities are high-volume public service users, but have benefitted the least from the shift to digital services. Too many legacy service users and barriers to end-users' digital adoption exist. 100CC will address the challenge by demonstrating a fit-for-purpose connectivity platform in the home for high-volume, heterogeneous public service user groups. This demonstration will validate a 'provider pays' business model, where the cost of providing secure connectivity is an order of magnitude lower than currently provided by the market. The deployment in West Suffolk will then demonstrate a citizen-centric digital service delivery model that uses IoT, real-time collaboration, digital-enabled staff and a fully online citizenry, transforming the State-of-the-Art from apps and online services to a fully-digital public service experience."

Based upon a real-world regional scenario in Scotland, CONSERVE will build and demonstrate an innovative integrated approach to urban resilience planning, event management, environmental management and critical infrastructure protection. This will improve quality of life for citizens in that a coordinated response to flooding events will minimise harm to both citizens and critical infrastructure. An understanding of systemic risk is emerging in some cities, but solutions are in their infancy. Existing city dashboards allow visualisation of city authority activity, but without interlinked workflow and information sharing between public and private. CONSERVE would create a first-of-its-kind service as a model for other cities to build on. It will detail how the multi-stakeholder challenges of flood event response can be addressed through data virtualisation and open city datasets, multi-agency workflow, and state-of-the-art analytics.The commercial procurement models supporting these initiatives will also be considered

Working with Network Rail, the project will deliver 21st Century station facilities, responding in a unified manner to the connectivity demands of four functional groups: security providers, operators, retailers and travellers. It will converge discrete, separate communications and mobile subsystems in a station to create a single, IP infrastructure to develop and test a holistic architecture called Stations as a Service (StaaS). StaaS empowers a step change, and provides an open archiecture needed to unlock future investment and innovation in the UK Rail Sector. StaaS delivering benefits from convergence of various systems & technologies: building management, Internet of Things and Big Data. It enables operators to move from closed systems & networks which have impacted the rail sector negatively to a co-operative shared structure. It creates a new management & commercial model for future stations and provides a blueprint to improve customer experience as data & its value becomes visible and exploitable. StaaS will support innovation in the four main stakeholder functions: security, real-time operations, commercial estate and passenger service innovation. The project will develop a StaaS architecture based on clear user-scenarios. The involvement formally of Abellio and the self-financing observer status of Network Rail and Scotrail provides the window of opportunity to develop and demo StaaS eco-systems. The project will be open and allow other UK SMEs to innovate on the StaaS platform ensuring the reference architecture is extensible.

Bronze Software Labs is specialist 'Big-Data' mobile technologies research and development team. Our proposal involved research into the use and representation of architectural and facilities management data within Augmented Reality via mobile offline devices.