Shortlisted for Guardian Award!

Great news - the AMBIT collaboration (represented by the most active "tiddly-manualers") has just been told that we are shortlisted for the Guardian and Virgin Business Media "Innovation Nation" award under the category for "Collaboration". See the website here.

You can see our introduction to the project at TiddlyManuals.

We have to provide a 100 word "pitch" for the project to go on the Guardian website, which is to canvas for the votes that will ultimately decide the winner...

After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, this is where we have got to:

AMBIT's innovative open source approach radically improves knowledge sharing across NHS and voluntary sector teams working with highly vulnerable, disadvantaged, disillusioned UK youth. AMBIT offers "how-to-do-it" instructions which each team adapts, refines and improves, based on their local expertise (street level workers, local youth). Any improvements are shared, compared and integrated with other ideas from teams around the country, and existing evidence, constantly improving the effectiveness of the work. Supported by open source programmers, the AMBIT project fosters co-ownership of professional knowledge and multi-stakeholder participation through sharing, remixing and evolving text, diagrams, pictures and video content for professional ‘manuals’.

Not that this site sees more than the odd passing seagull, but if you are here, and you fancy supporting us (before May 30th this year!) do slip along to the Guardian website and vote for us!

Thanks, Dickon.