How can we use open data to help people get better jobs, and create new jobs?
The open data assessment and user research
undertaken by Uscreates prompted over 20
teams to submit a product or service idea to t
he challenge. At the midpoint we invite a
selection of those teams who have submitted
an idea to come along to a weekend event to
take their idea further. We held the Jobs
Creation Weekend at The Shed, Manchester
Metropolitan University on the weekend of
25 and 26 April.
The Creation Weekend encourages participants
to focus on the judging criteria that they will be
assessed against on the Sunday afternoon.
The pitch and input on open data, social impact
and user research feature early on. In fact, the
weekend really begins two weeks beforehand –
at the Late Meetup for the challenge. Here, we
bring the selected teams together to meet the
competition, consider collaboration, hear from
specialists in user research and social impact
and learn a little about the structure and
expectations of the weekend.
The weekend culminates in the selection of
three finalists who spend the next two months
developing a minimum viable product and
refining their pitch. One team will be selected to
win the final £50,000 prize in early July 2015.
