Goals: To make information more accessible to young people
Funding: Connexions London East and Havering Youth Support Service.
It's all about the technology in east London. Young people in Havering can use 15 touch-screen kiosks to access information on 10 topics including education, health, housing, justice and equality and money.
The kiosks, in sites such as schools, libraries and Connexions centres, have three pages of information on each topic, with 750 contacts, and also allow access to trusted web sites. If young people want to follow up any of the contacts given they can get a print-out from the machine.
There is also the potential for the kiosks to give an indication of what young people are actually interested in. "One unit, in a school, had 690 visits in three weeks, 580 of which we thought were valid - the others looked like mucking about," says Andy Caine, co-ordinator of the project.
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