After a weekend of furious thinking, talking and building (with a bit of eating and drinking thrown in), teams downed tools on Sunday afternoon, pitched their ideas and left the judges with the impossible task of picking one overall winner.
Of the eleven pitches (a couple of the thirteen projects chose to join others), My Urban Angel was chosen as the winner of the £10,000 prize.
The team describe it as:
“…an application which will run on a smartphone and supported by a website and social media channels.
The app will be used by anyone who is going out and wants flexible options for keeping in touch with friends and staying safe.
It is principally for young people going out at night but could equally be used by children or older adults. Users have complete control over a range of features and they can personalise setting to suit different occasions.
Different features only come into play when they are neeeded and the overriding aim is to make it easy for anyone to keep themselves safe.”
To find out more on how it works, check out the My Urban Angel site
The other ideas, which all deserve a mention, were:
- iNoticeboard
- Bite-Sized Brighton
- Brighton Open Kitchen
- Zocalo
- Pier-to-Peer
- CityHive
- Touchy Peely
- I Can Help
- Vital reality
Thanks to the kind help given to our teams by Jonathon Markwell, some of the pages linked to will allow you to add your email address if you want to find out if they progress.
As an organising team, we were blown away by the energy and buzz around the whole weekend, and in awe of the passion of everyone who took part. Seeing eleven really solid ideas being pitched was the ultimate proof.
- By brighton / March 7th, 2011 / Categories: Latest news
