We think ALISS can develop a service to support self management in 3 ways
1. The ALISS Engine: to provide the technical infrastructure to collect, index and re-present information relevant to self management, making resources more visible.
2. ALISS Service: to support existing information providers who are developing resources for communities and people living with long term conditions. People have asked how ALISS can help them to find local solutions to their information needs. This has encouraged us to think about how ALISS might develop as a collaborative, providing a range of services to support people and organizations who wish to enhance their current service or develop a new resource. For example:
- A local Directory Service Data is considering testing the ALISS Engine as part of its planned technical upgrade
- A local Community Health Partnership and their LA Libraries Services want help to run an innovation workshop with a view to testing the ALISS Engine and developing ideas which emerged from the workshop series
- ‘Julia’ has asked ALISS for help to develop an idea about sharing local knowledge of a relatively rare disease
- A local Cardiac Group are keen to use ALISS to develop their service
- A local Carers group have asked how their film-based project (funded by the Self Management Fund) might benefit from the ALISS Engine.
3. ALISS Community – bringing together like-minded people, making connections between initiatives at local and national level. ALISS is becoming known as an entity which has attracted interest across a range of disciplines and provided a unique focus for discussion and innovation. ALISS has generated a rich network which could provide a range of services such as:
- service design expertise
- social enterprise mentoring and funding
- web and technical advice
- business development advice
The ALISS project team doesn’t have all of these skills, but has fostered relationships with individuals and organisations who do.
