Liveable Neighbourhoods: How can we better engage with you digitally on planning and regeneration projects?

Overview

Liveable Neighbourhoods Connected and Digital Engagement Survey 

1. Liveable Neighbourhoods Connected Chat Bot Pilot!

Please engage with us and let us know your thoughts on what would make Tyseley and Hay Mills a more digitally connected, convenient, and nicer place to live in using our friendly multi language  Liveable Neighbourhoods AI Bot!  

You can start chatting after visiting the project page on the QR code or the link below  

https://tactful-demo.com/birmingham/

Weve developed this prototype through funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund & really want to hear from you and to know what you think about it!

2. The Digital Engagement Survey

Through ongoing work as part of the Councils Liveable Neighbourhood Pilot in Tyseley & Hay Mills, the Council has been successful in securing funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to  explore the use of different digital tools such as the AI Bott Prototype to encourage better overall active engagement by local local residents in planning and regeneration projects. Particularly young people.  

Birmingham is a diverse city but also a young city, with younger residents who are increasing technoligically savvy, but equally are who less likely to engage in traditional forms of engagement such as through standard surveys ( like this one ironically!).

There is also a much wider acknowledgment these days of peoples neurodiversity and that some people are better suited to some types of engagement routes over others and like to express themselves in different ways.  

Good quality public engagement  is key to ensuring that public spending is targeted where it is most needed in order to demonstrate value for money and to succesfully deal with deep systemic issues in our communities.

It will be the youth of today that will inherit the future Tyseley and Hay Mills area  so it is imperitive that we actively engage with them/you so that the future neighbourhood meets their/your needs and is a great place to live. 

In order to begin to understand how we can do this it would help us greatly if you could just answer a few really short  questions to help us design a "proof of concept" digital platform that meets your needs as residents in terms of encouraging you to engage, start an ongoing conversation with us, and  provides the right methods of engagement to facilitate this. 

We would also welcome any residents who are interested in digital technology and planning & regneration, (particularly young people) to join a focus group who will work with the Council and the appointed software designer to co produce the final design, but equally receiving telephone and email contacts for " back seat supporters" who would not like to be actively be involved but who would like to help us test any digital conversation tools ( from the comfort of your arm chair!) as they develop to explore whether these tools encourage conversation on thematic topics related to the wider liveable neighbourhood work.  

Once we have a fully worked up design specification for the platform,  we know what we need to achieve for the platform to meet its full potential, (and if the "proof of concept" has been shown to be successful in the first instance)  the liveable neighbourhood team will work with partners, funders, and other groups  to secure funding for future phases of the platforms development against the full project specification. 

Why your views matter

Good quality public engagement  is key to ensuring that public spending is targeted where it is most needed in order to demonstrate value for money and to succesfully deal with deep systemic issues in our communities.

If we dont get a full 360 picture of local issues from the views of residents then this can lead to costly abortive work, be a waste of scarce public sector money, and at worst mean than those that are in real need of help and support could be missed out by virtue of a lack of response or a full understanding of their needs.

In terms of the Liveable Neghbourhoods Project specifically. If we dont get a full understanding of why certain groups of residents dont use/ walk to their most local key services then they could continue to use private transport to access the key services and facilities they need elsewhere. Thus we wont start to see a shift in transport patterns or a reduction in local air pollution which is responsable for hundreds of deaths across birmingham each year. 

Finally as above, it is the youth of today that will inherit the future Tyseley and Hay Mills area  so it is imperitive that we actively engage with them/your so that the future neighbourhood meets their/your needs and is a great place to live.