Encams Cleaner Safer Greener Network highlights our partners in Lewisham:

Lewisham Council is using the latest technology to make the borough a cleaner and greener place in which to live and work.

The Love Lewisham campaign encourages employees, councillors and members of the public to report instances of graffiti and fly-tipping using their camera phones.

They can take pictures of environmental crimes and text the photo along with details of where it was spotted to a dedicated council unit receiving the tip-offs.

CPSO from Downham talks about using Mediaklik

(via Love Lewisham)

James Senior who writes about “Windows Vista and other cool technology” describes a presentation from Microsoft.  It included a plug for our partners over at Love Lewisham.  James says:

A Local London Borough’s initative to combat anti-social activities like grafitti and rubbish dumping.  Residents are encourage to upload their photos to the Love Lewisham website and the locate their photo using Live Maps - the council then sort out the problem much more quickly.  What a great way to bring the community together! 

White Paper

The Local Government White Paper, Strong and prosperous communities, is out today.  The BBC have been covering it have have used LoveLewisham as way of explaining what the paper is trying to do.

You can see the video here, read what the BBC say here and see the LoveLewisham blog here.

 The White Paper itself has this to say about Lewisham’s use of the Mediaklik technology:

local authorities are using information technology to improve responsiveness to local people’s needs. For example, the ‘LoveLewisham’ scheme allows residents to text or email pictures of problems like graffiti or fly-tipping to the council. The pictures appear on a website so the public can track what action is being taken.

this place is

This place is - a blog about people centred design on our partners at Love Lewisham:

A noble effort by the city of Love Lewisham to involve the community in identifying problems in the urban environment.

At this site, residents can easily post photos of issues along with descriptions and location info to be reviewed and addressed by the borough.

Guardian Newsblog

The Guardian’s newsblog on Love Lewisham:

The battle against vandalism is becoming increasingly hi-tech, with a London borough surfing the wave of citizen journalism to crack down on civic nuisances.

Lewisham borough council in south-east London has a website which allows residents to send mobile phone images of graffiti, fly-tipping and similar problems. The photographs, sent by SMS or email, appear in a gallery on the site, lovelewisham.org, along with responses from the council about what action will be taken. Once the problem is resolved, the notifier receives a text message from the council.

idea blog on love lewisham

Here’s what Ingrid over at Partnership Place has to say about our partners in Lewisham:

I just spotted this website today - Love Lewisham. Residents can post pictures of what’s broken in Lewisham (e.g. graffitti, abandoned cars, broken street furniture) as a way of reporting it to the council to get it fixed. I think this is a fantastic idea. I would upload pictures to a similar website for my local council. It would also seem like this is a great way to help council services prioritise which jobs need to be done first - because public servants can see what’s in the worst nick.

But the website isn’t just about showing pictures of what’s broken, but what’s been done to fix them. Many of the pictures have additional details, including what action was taken and before and after shots

She’s got links to a couple of graffiti stories.

broken/not broken

From This is Broken which describes itself as a “project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it”:

The Love Lewisham website allows citizens to submit pictures of “broken” things in their community, to alert the local government for need of a fix.

I’m pleased to see they’ve filed this under “not broken”.