Rewired State

The hacks

Rewired State: UK Online centres

Young Rewired State 2010

  • UniSearch

    A search tool for Universities. Where there was only doubt and boring numbers on a screen, there ...

  • Postcode Lottery

    Enter 1 to 5 postcodes and get back a table or list of comparisons on various categories from the...

  • TubeSmart

    Many tube stations are too busy to use much of the time, partly because there is uneven demand ac...

  • GovSpark

    Power data is reported real-time online for many government departments, including BIS, DCMS, HRM...

  • NatuSearch

    NatuSearch is a service to help allow people easy access to usually large and complex data sets a...

  • CycleHubs

    CycleHubs is a Windows Phone 7 application used to find the nearest Barclays Cycle Hire Stations ...

  • Psych Survival Chances

    If you, or someone you love, are due to be admitted to a Mental Health Institute, the thing that'...

  • Cool Broadband

    We started with the hypothesis that colder countries tended to have faster broadband connections ...

  • Pick My House

    The aim of Pick My House is to make it easy for people to find details about the areas in which t...

  • Manchester | Images through time

    An on-this-day style application which conjures up images from the past 100+ years from the manch...

  • WhatBLOCK

    WhatBLOCK is an http-accessible application designed to test the internal networks of schools and...

  • Live London Leisure Locations – iPhone App

    Live London Leisure Locations is an iPhone application designed to show you the nearest leisure c...

  • iWanted App - iPhone App (based on iWanted web app)

    The iWanted app is an iPhone application with which you can take photos of people whom you believ...

  • Criminator

    This was an attempt to compare crime statistics to media reports of crimes, but was not particula...

  • "Live" Manchester Busmap

    Using the newly released GMPTE bus timetable data, this map shows where all the buses in manchest...

  • Manchester Bus Times Webapp

    A simple webapp targeted at mobile devices for finding the bus times for a particular route at a ...

  • Jobber

    Jobber is a job search web app; It divides a list of jobs by qualification level. Choose a qua...

  • Notlate

    **Notlate** was a concept for a smartphone app, in which one could enter a location and time of a...

  • SocialLibrary

    SocialLibrary combines existing Library location and catalog data with social media. To try and r...

  • Gimmie 5

    **Gimmie 5** is a web and android app. Its purpose is to show the user, who is about to choose th...

  • Better off In Bed

    Better off in Bed is essentially a benefits calculator to see wether you are better off on benefi...

  • Tax Man

    A Basic Income Calculator - As Simple as That Just put in how much you earn in Days, Weeks, Mont...

Rewired State: Culture

  • Government Art Collection Explorer

    It's an iPad app prototype made on a custom API built out of data provided by the Government Art ...

  • HMRC Artworks

    List artworks registered with HMRC for tax purposes. Enable easier methods for contacting in orde...

  • Cultural Segment locator

    Get the unusually high density cultural segment for a postcode according to http://www.artscounci...

  • Mapping events from Visit Britain

    We reviewed as many of the provided datasets as possible, looking for common data points such as ...

  • LandingZone

    Crop circles. Yes, Crop circles. This app is the ultimate* tool for crop circle enthusiasts aroun...

  • Awesometer

    Awesometer is a reply to Jeff Gilfelt's ASBOrometer. Rather than spreading fear and distrust it g...

  • TAPCulture

    In essence: *Oyster cards for art* ...or... *World of Warcraft for museums*. Young people don'...

National Hack The Government Day 2010

Rewired State: DotGovLabs

  • FixMyHospital

    FixMyHospital makes it easy to report problems in hospitals. When you spot a specific, fixable...

  • Registry office locator

    Provide a machine readable API for finding a list of the registry offices nearest to a given loca...

  • Hospital locator

    Provide a machine readable API for finding a list of the hospitals nearest to a given location. ...

  • TellUsOnce

    Working prototype/proof-of-concept for a simple, user-friendly service to alert all of government...

  • NHS Toolbar

    A browser extension providing links to accurate information about newspaper health stories. Th...

  • The Bump Game

    The Bump Game is a cooperative two-player trivia game designed to help newly expectant parents an...

  • UK Business Portal

    Website that allows you create your business profile and have it suggest events, contacts, compet...

  • todo.gov.uk

    Checklists are a common element across many different government sites, and so are service locato...

  • Pregnancy Helper

    During pregnancy there are many forms to fill in, people to officially tell, and things to apply ...

  • Legends of Paternity

    Legends of Paternity is a fun iPhone game designed to help young fathers & potential fathers ...

  • NHS pregnancy tips for Android

    Android mobile phone widget showing relevant tips during pregnancy period, which directly links t...

  • Mum's Aid Kit

    A mobile widget app to simplify life during pregnancy. The NHS provides rich information around ...

  • Get Me A Dentist

    A simple site for finding dentists in your area, and booking appointments with them. The origina...

Rewired State: Justice and Home Affairs

  • Better Crime Maps

    Crime maps with no maps. Lets a member of the public see the actual crime in their ward compar...

  • Accessible Data

    Exemplar publication of data following not being able to easily engage in freakonomics, correlati...

  • Police Complaints Visualiser

    Takes the nearly unreadable police complaints data and presents it graphically, allowing you to d...

  • BBC + Data.gov.uk mashup

    Publishes links to relevant data.gov.uk datasets next to news articles on the BBC website. Provid...

  • Safer Journeys

    Used the TFL journey planner API to extend their results with information about the crime at each...

  • Crime Stats Facebook Quiz

    A fun and quick quiz to test people's perception of crime with the actual statistics. Althoug...

  • Helicoptr

    Where are the police helicopters? ==================== Application that uses the 'Merseyside ...

  • How's My Town

    A brutally honest postcode rating system with ultimate snob value *UPDATE* How's my town will...

  • Met Complaints

    Beginnings of a Met Complaints mobile web application was put in place, in the same style as the ...

Young Rewired State

  • How's My Train?

    A service to collect and present statistics on train punctuality for individual services, as oppo...

  • School Routr 2.0

    Project that aggregates news sites from Google/Yahoo using YQL and then strips data like roads, t...

  • Engage

    Engage is an exciting new project run by young people to promote clubs and activities within the ...

  • Will Work For Peanuts

    "Get tech experience. Help people" A website to help trained coders with little or n...

  • Un-transport Direct

    The Next Step up from the Governments Online Journey Planner.

  • AgeVerifier

    An OpenID like system hosted by the government that would be able to verify the person's name and...

  • free the theory

    free the theory does two things. 1. Lets learner car drivers take unlimited, free, practice th...

  • Crime statistics in your county

    Showing correlations (if any) between crime statistics and exam results in different areas. Usi...

  • Uni Cloud

    Look for courses and see which Universities offer that course.

  • Blab To Betty

    Blab to Betty is a confidential, non-patronising sexual health advice service which uses modern w...

  • TFHell

    Buses in London are tracked by radio and GPS, yet Londonders are seeing no benefit. Some bus s...

  • HTML5 Wheels

    Built using the latest cross platform, standards compliant HTML5 technology, these revolutionary ...

National Hack The Government Day 1

  • ONS Graphs

    Generate graphs in the browser for timeline datasets on the Office for National Statistics websit...

  • Openly Local

    Started as a scraper/parser for Greater London Assembly, since turned in to a TheyWorkForYou for ...

  • Job Centre Pro Plus

    search/email alerts and rss for new jobs near you

  • One Click Organisations

    There are thousands of situations when people need to set up a legal structure. Forming a new clu...

  • Voxpomp

    Statements made by MPs during Parliamentary debate cross-referenced with news stories of the time.

  • Who voted which way?

    This has been vandalised by spammers. Could someone please update it?

  • TFL Statistics

    Using the http://tubeupdates.com/ API to work out uptime statistics for the London Underground. T...

  • Moving There

    enhancing property search websites with area statistics

  • ChoroplethUK

    Choropleth or heat maps are a useful way to visualize statistics collected by region, be that con...

  • Section 44

    For people to log when and where they have been stopped and searched under Section 44 of the Terr...

  • Find Me A Dentist

    Because teeth hurt! Scans the NHS database for dentists near your postcode for the nearest that i...

  • MCC-Work-For-You

    Part of the

  • Active Places Reloaded

    <a href="http://activeplaces.com" title="Active Places">Active Places&l...

  • Crime and Punishment 1707 versus 2007

    A slight but delightful project mashing up "The Old Bailey online - 1674-1913" and &quo...

  • foafcorp uk

    Reviving foafcorp, an interactive SVG app by Dean Jackson which shows you links between companies...

  • What's On Their Minds?

    Creates tag clouds from MPs written questions. The TheyWorkForYou API is used to find an MP'...

  • TransparencyMachine

    The Transparency Machine is an app to encourage more local-government interaction. The app reads ...

  • Tracking Council Tax

    Scraping per-council electorate and council tax histories out of DCMG and National Statistics, an...

  • Cycling accidents

    Visualise and geographically search 3 years of DfT data about road accidents involving cyclists. ...

  • One Stop Shop

    A single page you can visit that will scrape / api-use all manner of places to tell you everythin...

  • UK Parliament Chatter

    This was really part of the Open Companies House project, but it never saw the light of day. We w...

  • StateAware

    Aims to collect government data through APIs and screen scraping, and enrich it through public da...

  • Biz.Gov Events

    Project to query businesslink.gov.uk's events database to draw out details of the events. The ...

  • A simple API for schools

    Government shouldn't build websites, especially not ones for short term issues such as schools af...

  • Computerisation Of Administrative Legislation

    State computer systems are specified by legislation. Rewiring the state involves changing the und...

  • Fix My Site

    Like FixMyStreet for websites, or like GetSatisfaction for the UK Government online. If you wa...

  • mycounciltax.org.uk

    mycounciltax.org.uk puts together the council tax bands and the annual council tax change for eve...

  • UK Online - Get Online Now Booth

    Concept/Front End: The idea behind the get online booth is to get clubs and societies and the lik...

  • Sharing UKO Pages - Quick Win

    Just a quick mockup around possible improvements to the existing site to enable sharing of conten...

  • Data Visualisations for Rewired State

    Three data visualisations created using Tableau for Rewired State : Culture. 1. Rewired State ...

  • Epic Bin

    A service that reminds you the day before your greenbox and bin collections take place, and what ...

  • Companies Open House

    The government's www.companieshouse.gov.uk website doesn't have a permanent URL for each register...

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