Amplified Leicester

Laura Horton of LCIL and REDP is proud to announce on becoming a successful applicant on the Amplified Leicester Project - A city-wide experiment in social media

Amplified individuals use social media and the web to enhance their abilities to sense their world, create shared resources and act collaboratively.

The aim of the project is to:

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city's disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Our objectives are to:

· Develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city's grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals

· Provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context

Please visit the Amplified Leicester website for more details:

www.amplifiedleicester.com

for more information regarding this project contact Laura Horton on 0116 2225005 or Laura.horton@lcil.org.uk

Last Modified: 13 Nov 2009