NAN Development The linkable systems need to allow ONE ENTRY OF EACH NEW USER by the administrators - i.e. minimum admin maintenance. When the software had been built and tested, the main work for those maintaining the community should be "stimulating discussion and activitiy" amongst the users.

Systems and Synergies
• People Systems
  
  • Education & support for potential users and beneficiaries
    Creating the initial shared vision, confidence, skills and resources to begin, to learn, and to succeed.
    
  • Potential users of the network and systems such as existing organisations and individuals active in and around that specific neighbourhood, e.g. tenant and resident groups, housing associations and other landlords, local and central information and education initiatives.
    
  • Developers, managers and maintainers of these systems, i.e. local and global individuals and organisations and the links needed to support the creation and maintenance of a NAN. Skills can often be provided or supported remotely when connected.
    
  • Finance and financial control of assets and revenue, income and expenditure
    
    • The Network financials, group & bulk purchase of network and services:
      Shared infrastructure, vision, development and upgrades routes. Usage of the network and information policies, and resources for their support and enforcement.
      
    • Individual and family financials:
      Direct benefits of lower cost with higher quality network communications for information;
      Organisation for indirect benefits, such as cash savings due to the ease of online organisation for bulk buying; as in a local http://www.letsbuyit.com for local delivery and distribution, including energy supply and similar services.
      
    • External financials, supporters and enablers:
      Financial institutions, e.g. banks and ethical investors, also lease finance companies.
      For profit organisations seeking to trade in a potentially large new market
      Not-for-profit organisations involved in research on these new developments, learning and training for participants; or championing other exploratory initiatives, such as "e-democracy".
    
    
• Email & Message systems
  
  • Email Address for each user @neighbourhood.org domain.
    first.secondname@ is normally chosen, or local nicknames.
  • LDAP information of users, including email addresses can be made secure and only available to the user groups chosen by each user, and to overall administrators of the systems. The information can be added to with new fields, such as information to link local voice and video conference users. These can be accessed using a text-search for names, or a category search for groups of users with shared interests.
  • Webmail for users
    Webmail, the ability to use a web browser to compose, send, receive,S read, attatch files, and manage email.
  • User created & managed "listmail" group mailing services.
    Listmail allowing users to provide specific email addresses which can be used by groups discussing specific topics to distrute contributions to the group. Listmail groups can be open or closed to subscriptions, public or private, within the NAN only or globally inclusive.
  • Online SMS and Paging systems
    Email to pager is available at a connection cost to the originator for each call, see http://www.pageone.co.uk/. Limited free online SMS messaging systems are available such as at http://www.excite.co.uk/mobile/sms/
  • Online Voice message systems
    Within the high speed neighbourhood network, individual person to person voice communications, like a phone conversation, is available and effective, with capacity to use person to person video too.
    Voice over the Internet to the other party, or to a transfer to the telephone system local to the other party are of variable quality. Quality pf service can be greatly improved across a user controlled network, perhaps on a metropolitan scale.
  • Avatar and 3D space with text and voice chat and conferencing is displayed at http://www.communities.com/ and http://www.onlive.com/. Public communities with group voice conversations over the Web in a 3D virtual environment using OnLive Traveler are listed at http://traveler.onlive.com/community/trav2dest.html
  
  
• Web systems
  
  • The FLATPACK Web for distributed input by many users, including visibility control by group, + lots more??**
    http://www.theflatpackweb.com/
  • Intra-group communications, co-operation, responsibility, etc. Threaded discussion boards; file storing for sharing; searchable group callendar/news; etc; at www.thefew.net
  • Online organisation for bulk buying as in a local http://www.letsbuyit.com for local delivery and distribution, including energy supply and similar services.
  • Project design, management through intra-group and inter-group distributed co-ordination - Wanted.
  
  
• LETSystems:
  LETSystems use a common account in a shared virtual money to facilitate trading of goods and services amoungst that group. The group can be of any size, be broadly open, or focussed by definition amongst a specific set of users.
  The shared virtual money is backed by the commitment of users to provide desired good or services to any other members of the group, at some time.
  Cash backed LETS with regular clear down against a common fund are also possible.
  • Directories, notice boards and group communications through distributed management by each user of their own offers and requests, news and events, etc.
    These can be accessed viar a text-search or a two level category search. Each offer and request shows the category and sub-category structure when displayed. These are hyperlinked to full listing of their postings.
    This allows users to capture appropriate links by association with those returned by the direct text return, increasing the effectiveness of the search response significantly.
    Automatic contact by email or SMS can be triggered by new postings in chosen categories, and other events.
    Tracking of each user's effective links allows unique category structures to be developed for each user.

    Access using http://www.redbricks.org.uk/redbricksdirectory/
    Reg. Name: nig
    Reg. ID: m15
    Password: logo haze long

    Press ENTER

    The next web page reads:

    Please select the activity in which you wish to partake
    PLACE an offer or request
    EDIT an offer or request
    EDIT personal info
    WRITE a cheque
    HOW TO use your system
    SEND a piccy of yourself for the about me page
    VIEW my page
    ENTER group diary
    SURVEY, INPUT AND VIEW RESULTS of being a little bit democratic

    Each user manages their information and can transfer LETSystem money to other users of any LETSystem which both use. This can be done by writing and posting an online cheque.

    See also www.thefew.net and www.letsystems.net

• Online secure display & management of accounts in:
  Multiple LETSystems, Credit Unions and similar;
  LETShares for groups of project developers;
  Community Way for cash input into not-for-profit initiatives.

  An initial Multiple LETSystems display is at "LETS look around" at http://www.redbricks.org.uk/lets/ for an example for multiple LETS trading accounts. The visibility of the information is too open for all viewers. In practice each user would only see details of individual transactions that have involved them.
  "reg" and "m15" provide effective displays of the LETSystem accounts.

  View

  • Users balance against time
  • Users total trading against time
  • Users balance against turnover to be included
  • System measures such as "number of users against time"; "turnover of each user, and all users, i.e. the system, against time"

  Credit Union account display and management, yet to be detailed.

  A LETShare account display, yet to be detailed, would be similar to a number of spreadsheets, detailing the initial shared business plan, this compared with actuals as the project is progressed. Returns from the shared project are distributed as agreed in documents associated with the LETShare account records.

  Description and accounts display for "Worcester Community Way", to create cash input into not-for-profit initiatives http://www.letsystems.net/worc1cw/
  Including "thermometer style" display of progress of business engagement, funding and the project activities.

• User created and managed surveys with results of surveys displayed online if the creator wishes. http://www.redbricks.org.uk/redbricksdirectory/user/builder/dobuild.asp?id=38

• Virtual Neighbourhood Watch with control over visibility to any individual. Automatic monitoring, with paging of alarms possible.

• PKI, public & private key management infrastructure for recognised digital signatures, encryption, and time stamping for statements, agreements and contracts.

• Information management and utilization services for ongoing protection from attack by virus or other agents to the communications systems, be that by ignorance or malice, by users or external parties.
  Information protection, storage, backup, redundancy, and utilization services for individuals, groups, and commercial organisations.
  Privacy and Data Protection services, providing management of contracts for information gathering and usage for individuals and organisations.

• Geographical Information Systems (GIS) combining location related data from local authorities and other bodies, with input by local people. A searchable index of all types of GIS information in use, and the location of that use, supports the development of best practice by all.

• Always-on environmental monitoring and management using the neighbourhood network to combine location related data from analogue sensors, video cameras etc.
  Real time data, and a variety of automatically generated analyses are available within the neighbourhood or more globally, as prefered. Sensors can be combined, such as movement sensors and the recording of video camera output, sending of alarms, etc.
  Systems can be arranged to be able to be adjusted from a remote location, with appropriate security controls, if that is required

• Entertainment & Games
  • Consumpion of entertainment
  • Gathering, cataloguing, editing existing entertainment and re-presenting it
  • Co-creation of entertainment through games, challenges and other shared group online interactions.

• Always-on, and mobile networking
  
  • Bluetooth and other short-range radio and wireless technologies, such as Infra Red for moving connection
    
  • Medical monitoring in real time.

• Network traffic & performance monitoring and management
  
  • Routers & Gateways for management of usage and users. In LINUX.
    
  • Hubs and switches in copper, fibre, and wireless networks
    
  • Internet backbone connection and peering arrangments with other users.
    
  • Management of traffic within the high speed neighbourhood network, and any relevant metropolitan area network.