Streetcloud

Streetcloud aims to create a more active, healthy and socially inclusive community by enabling people to flag their interests and build community initiatives through social media technology. 

Streetcloud will build a fully accessible, fully-mapped site that connects people to their local facilities (e.g. the nearest basketball court, communal garden), events, clubs, car pools, services, and other individuals by 'mashing up' existing data from our own databases, public input and publicly available datasets. As a result, people will have their neighbourhood in their hand.

As a community we are increasingly isolated from each other, inactive, unskilled and unsharing. This contributes to ill-health (both physical and mental), substance abuse, anti-scoail activites and the loss of valuable collective knowledge.

However, in Australia we also have a community with high levels of mobile technology adoption, a 60+ demographic adopting the web faster than any other group, and a high rate of use of social media tools. We are connected to systems but increasingly we are not connecting to people at a basic neighbourhood level.

The Streetcloud application will bring the 'cloud' to street and neighbourhood level, via people's computers and hand-held devices and help start rebuilding those community connections.

Check out the Streetcloud pitch here.