Library of Things: Replication Playbook for green, inclusive high streets activation

在封锁后的商业街企业和工作、气候/生态紧急情况以及系统性不平等的背景下，物联网(Lot)正在为一个项目寻求资金，该项目旨在增强其成为绿色、包容的商业街激进者的能力。**关于物联网**Lot帮助人们节省资金，减少浪费，并通过以下方式激活当地的商业街：·从活动场所或二手商店等商业街中心的售货亭租用50种优质产品，如博世钻头、斯蒂尔打孔机和兄弟缝纫机·提供DIY等技能培训计划，与当地人一起修理和缝纫**它是如何工作的**1.从朋友那里听到Lot的消息，在媒体/社交媒体上，或者只是路过2.浏览网站预订产品。按天付费租用产品--仅为购买成本的5%！3.在当地的自助服务亭收集和归还产品。在你的商业街上的一家主机中心找到它。活动空间、二手店。确保产品由训练有素的专业人员定期清洁/维护4。\[即将通过此项目：查看您的社区的影响并加入技能培训计划\]开发了一个可复制的模式，该模式现已在伦敦各地的主机中心启动和运行，并已收到来自其他城市的企业和社区的300多个请求，Lot正计划将其扩展到英国布里斯托尔、伯明翰、曼彻斯特等城市的商业街。**该项目**使这种扩展**更快、更具活力、更有影响力，Lot想要建立一个_复制攻略。_这是Lot软件的一套三部分开发：1.热图以确保想要很多的社区可以自我识别，并帮助Lot的团队识别社区感兴趣的热点和新城市的潜在主办中心2。Live Impact仪表板，清晰地向用户和主机中心传达Lot在其附近的经济、社区和环境影响3。面向批次用户的数字技能培训模块，以·通过提高技能/信心促进产品租赁；·降低计划向Lot的交付成本，使技能计划在规模上可行；·提高影响：释放更多和多样化的参与者，并在当地创造更多就业机会。**这为什么有助于新冠肺炎复苏**许多商业街的企业和工作岗位，即使在疫情爆发前也在苦苦挣扎，现在也是支离破碎。被封锁的2万家店铺将不会重新开张。2020年上半年，英国零售商砍掉了[24,000+个工作岗位][0]；专家警告称，这只是“冰山一角”。商业街迫切需要创新的服务来创造就业/人流量--外加失业人员再就业计划。通过这个项目，Lot将：·与封锁前相比，商业街社区中心的收入/人流量增加50%--额外访问7,500人次，每年收入6,000 GB。·让社区参与其自身服务的扩展、影响和技能发展，为其他商业街服务在这个转型的关键时刻开创先例·新冠肺炎也增加了碳密集型和浪费性行为，亚马逊销售额飙升至11,000美元/秒，一次性包装/个人防护用品消费增加。比以往任何时候都更重要的是，我们要扩大有效的浪费预防措施。[0]：https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2020/07/over-24000-jobs-scrapped-due-to-retail-administrations/#：~：text=New%20research%20has%20found%20that，崩溃%20%2020%某些企业20%主要企业20%。

In the context of struggling post-lockdown high street businesses and jobs, the climate/ecological emergency and systemic inequalities, Library of Things (LoT) is seeking funding for a project that increases its capability to be a green, inclusive high streets activator.**About Library of Things**LoT helps people save money, reduce waste and activate their local high street by:• affordably renting 50 quality products like Bosch drills, Stihl strimmers and Brother sewing machines from kiosks in high street hubs like event spaces or second-hand shops• delivering training programmes for skills like DIY, repair & sewing with local people**How it works**1. Hear about LoT from a friend, in the press/social media or just walking by2. Browse the website to reserve products. Pay-per-day to rent the product-- just 5% of the cost of buying it!3. Collect and return products from local self-serve kiosk. Find it in a Host Hub on your high street eg. events space, second-hand shop. Be assured that products are regularly cleaned/ maintained by trained professionals4. \[COMING SOON VIA THIS PROJECT: View your community's impact and join skills training programmes\]Having developed a replicable model that is now launching and operating in Host Hubs across London, and having received 300+ requests from businesses and communities in other cities, LoT is planning its expansion to high streets across UK cities like Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester etc.**The project**To enable this expansion to happen faster, more viably, and more impactfully, LoT wants to build a _Replication Playbook._This is a set of three pieces of development for LoT's software:1. Heatmaps to ensure communities that want a LoT can self-identify, and to help LoT's team identify hotspots of community interest and potential Host Hubs in new cities2. Live Impact Dashboards to clearly communicate to users and Host Hubs the economic, community and environmental impact of LoT in their neighbourhood3. Digital Skills Training Module for LoT users, in order to • facilitate product rental through increased skills/confidence;• reduce programme delivery costs to LoT, making the skills programme viable at scale;• increase the impact: unlocking greater numbers and diversity of participants, and creating more local jobs.**Why this helps COVID-19 recovery** Many high street businesses and jobs, struggling even pre-pandemic, are now in tatters. 20,000 shop units that closed in lockdown won't reopen. In the first half of 2020, UK retailers axed [24,000+ jobs][0]; experts warn this is the 'tip of the iceberg'. High streets urgently need innovative services creating jobs/footfall-- plus reskilling programmes for unemployed.Through this project, LoT will:• increase revenue/ footfall to high street community hubs by 50% against pre-lockdown levels-- to 7500 extra visits and £6000 revenue/year.• involve communities in the expansion, impact and skills development of its own service, setting the precedent for other high street services to do the same at this key moment of transition• COVID-19 has also increased carbon-intensive, wasteful behaviours with Amazonsales surging to $11,000/second and increased single-use packaging/PPE consumption. It's more important than ever that we scale impactful waste prevention.[0]: https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2020/07/over-24000-jobs-scrapped-due-to-retail-administrations/#:~:text=New%20research%20has%20found%20that,collapse%20of%20some%20major%20businesses.