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

在封锁后的商业街和工作，气候/生态紧急情况和系统性不平等的背景下，物联网图书馆（LoT）正在为一个项目寻求资金，以提高其成为绿色，包容性高街激活器的能力。关于物联网图书馆 **LoT通过以下方式帮助人们节省资金、减少浪费并激活当地的商业街：·从商业街中心（如活动空间或二手商店）的售货亭租用50种优质产品，如博世电钻、Stihl缝纫机和兄弟缝纫机·与当地人一起提供DIY、修理和缝纫等技能培训计划 ** 工作原理 **1。从朋友、媒体/社交媒体或只是路过的地方听说LoT 2.浏览网站以预订产品。按天付费租赁产品-只需购买成本的5%！3.从当地自助服务亭收集和返回产品。在你的大街上的主机中心找到它。活动空间二手店请确保产品由经过培训的专业人员定期清洁/维护4。\[即将通过此项目：查看您所在社区的影响并加入技能培训计划\]在开发了一种可复制的模式后，现已在伦敦的主机中心启动和运行，并收到了来自其他城市的企业和社区的300多个请求，LoT计划将其扩展到英国城市的商业街，如布里斯托，伯明翰，曼彻斯特等。项目 ** 为了使这种扩展更快，更可行，更有影响力，LoT希望建立一个复制剧本。这是LoT软件开发的三个部分：1.热图，以确保需要LoT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中的潜在主机中心2。实时影响仪表板，向用户和主机中心清楚地传达LoT对其社区的经济、社区和环境影响3。面向物联网用户的数字技能培训模块，旨在·通过提高技能/信心来促进产品租赁;·降低物联网的计划交付成本，使技能计划在规模上可行;·增加影响力：释放更多数量和多样性的参与者，并创造更多的本地就业机会。为何这有助COVID-19复苏 ** 许多商业街的企业和工作岗位在疫情爆发前仍在苦苦挣扎，如今已是满目疮痍。两万个商店单位在封锁中关闭不会重新开放。在2020年上半年，英国零售商削减了[24，000多个工作岗位][0];专家警告说，这是“冰山一角”。商业街迫切需要创新的服务来创造就业机会/客流量-以及为失业者提供再培训计划。通过这个项目，LoT将：·将商业街社区中心的收入/客流量与封锁前的水平相比增加50%-达到7500次额外访问和6000英镑/年的收入。·· COVID-19还增加了碳密集型浪费行为，亚马逊销售额飙升至每秒11，000美元，一次性包装/个人防护设备消耗增加。现在比以往任何时候都更重要的是，我们要扩大有效的废物预防。[0]：https：//www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2020/07/over-24000-jobs-scraped-due-to-retail-administrations/#：~：text= New%20research%20has%20found%20that%20of%20some%20major%20businesses.

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.