Yesterday I was on the north Norfolk coast, on a beautiful sunny day with the beach full of happy families. Yet the beautiful beach huts by the side of the sand were all locked up and unused. What a missed opportunity. How nice would it be for the families to be able to use the beach huts for the day - lock them up again therefore not subject to vandalism..? So we need a very small system of accountability and trust, and some sort of feedback system. It shouldn't be very difficult.
- How about a database you could log into (maybe with facebook) that would give you the 4 number code for the combination lock on a beach hut.
- To lock it up after use you would sign back out (maybe using foursquare) to say you had left.
- And you could leave feedback on the exchange like couchsurfing.
You could apply this method to more vulnerable thing longer term; holiday lets, caravans, bicycles etc..
Let's get more use from the things we have. Collaborative consumption has a long way to go. So if you could increase the sum of human happiness on a North Norfolk beach really easily, think about putting that into health and social care..
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