Solution Focused Approaches

Regeneration in North Staffordshire offers the opportunity to develop solution focused ways of engaging with individuals.

According to the RENEW website:

RENEW North Staffordshire is a partnership of local organisations who are working together to deliver a multi-million pound investment programme called housing market renewal.

The programme - just one of nine in England to receive government funding - is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a stronger, more stable housing market for the region.

The aim of this particular network is to create a discussion space, and probably an online community, to pull together a set of principles and how-tos that would be helpful across a range of issues from inclusion and adoption of technology, to e-participation and e-democracy.

The digital manifesto aims to focus on empowering the individual by using digital tools. Again I feel this would benefit from using an approach looking at the preferred agendas of the community, fitting the tools to their needs not the other way around, this could be where SF approaches fit in.