4 Tips to Master Your Waste Engagement
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), each American citizen generates an average of 4.9 pounds of waste per day. That’s a lot of waste, especially as the figure increases each year. Despite the EPA reporting a 32% recycling rate across the US in 2023, there’s more to be done to build a greener future.
2023 Year in Review
We’re back and ready for another exciting year at Hello Lamp Post! But, before we look towards the future, we’d like to take a step back and share some of our best moments from the past year. From new project launches to award recognitions, we’ll be showcasing some of our highlights and sharing a glimpse of what’s to come later this year!
The Importance of ‘Going Digital’ with BIDS
With new technologies now available to create exciting experiences for all ages, how can they contribute to cost-effective engagement and more efficient service delivery? In this blog, we’re going to discuss how organizations are using digital engagement to tackle some of these challenges and share some success stories too.
6 Top Tips to Elevate Your Visitor Experience
With tourism emerging as one of the fastest-growing and competitive industries, how can heritage, cultural and conservation sites create engaging, entertaining, enriching and educational visitor experiences? Read our blog to see how you can create memories that help drive positive brand engagement and increase overall visitor satisfaction.
An Interview with Michelle Valeri from Colfax Ave Business Improvement District
We’re excited to introduce you to one of our clients, Michelle Valeri, who has kindly agreed to share her experience of Hello Lamp Post’s product and service, and how our partnership is helping Colfax Business Improvement District to achieve their goals.
AI is Super-Powering What We Do – But We’ll Never Use it Unchecked
AI - and GPT in particular - is very much in the zeitgeist right now. It's no exaggeration to suggest, as many have, that AI as we have come to know and use it in the last few years will go down as the biggest technological breakthrough since the emergency of the internet in the early-mid 90s.
A New ‘Wave’ in Engagement: Making a Splash in the Water Sector
Community engagement has never been more important to the water and utility sector. The water sector needs to re-build relationships and transparently communicate with their consumers. How can this be achieved, in a way that’s both cost-effective and inclusive to all?
2023 highlights from our UK team
With ground breaking project launches, overwhelming responses from our customers and industry led pieces of recognition, the beginning of 2023 has undoubtedly set the stage for an exciting year ahead!
Interactive Hospitals: A Smarter Approach To Patient Engagement
Hospitals and other healthcare organisations will find many benefits associated with becoming ‘smarter’. Smart hospitals use technology to improve service delivery, provide a better patient experience and automate tasks that burden staff time. One of the ways that hospitals can adopt smarter technology is by becoming interactive.
The Importance Of ‘Play’ When It Comes To Placemaking
Let us start by asking you a question. Take a moment to reflect on your hometown or city. If you could pick any place, space or object local to you and make it interactive, what would you choose? We believe every street object has the ability to serve people – whether it’s by sharing useful information, gathering insights or simply putting a smile on their faces!
It’s Time To Put Our Communities’ Mental Health And Wellbeing First
Every place and space worldwide has a duty of care when it comes to supporting their community’s health and wellbeing. This goes for local government, cities, emergency services, healthcare providers, universities, and workplaces – the list is endless.
Celebrating 2022
It's been an exciting year for Hello Lamp Post. Celebrate 2022 with us!
How US Cities Can Win The Fight Against Trash
Waste management provides an economic challenge for every town and city in the US. And around the world, for that matter. At the end of the last decade, 82.4% of the US population lived in urban areas. That figure is expected to rise to an estimated 90% by 2050. This means that unless the government can tackle waste management now, the challenges will continue to place growing pressure on communities and the places they live.
If You’re Not Adopting Digital Community Engagement, You’re Missing Out
The way that people communicate and engage with the public sector has never been more collaborative. Digital community engagement is key to widening participation and is allowing communities to be at the forefront of public decision-making. Communities around the world are ready to collaborate with their councils. It’s time for more public sector organisations to join their counterparts who have already adopted these new technologies.
How to Spend Your Welcome Back Fund
Since the start of the pandemic, footfall in some towns and city centres have decreased by up to 70%, and our local businesses are paying the price. The Welcome Back Fund has been introduced to provide councils across England with a share of £56 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to encourage footfall back to the high street and show support to shops and hospitality businesses, who need the support of consumers now more than ever.
What Makes a Smart Campus? The Benefits And The Principles of Smart Campus Design
Higher Education Institutions compete on various levels to attract students. Finding an institution that carries a good reputation has become increasingly important to students, as more and more people hold degrees and compete for compelling jobs after graduation.
The Importance of Public Participation in Urban Planning
Urban planning attempts to organise socio-spatial relations across different scales of government and governance. The planning process typically has two functions; managing physical development and planning ahead for future growth and development. While these functions appear to focus solely on physical development, they are also concerned with economic, environmental and social needs.
Smart Governance : A Hybrid of Civic Technology IoT and Local Government
The importance of Smart Governance has been recognised as a fundamental necessity of smart cities as it creates a strong link between a government and its citizens. In the case of Hello Lamp Post we focus on how public services are delivered and better inform how governing bodies make their decisions based on the data derived from our playful and innovative solutions.
