Lavvu

Inspiration

Although the governmental structures are different in different countries there is the same basic need to react rapidly, scale and develop solutions to problems that arise rarely, or not at all. This requires a totally different approach to how these organisations normally manage change. Therefore they either have to rapidly develop solutions to the problem, including new processes and approaches, on the fly, or have a framework in place that can be implemented when needed.

For the last few weeks we have been rapidly building and rebuilding some of our applications to cope with both a different scale of demand, and a different way of working (as the systems we have often require in person communications). We want to design and build something from scratch that would allow a county council (UK tier of local government where a lot of the work is done) to take advantage of it's scale and rapidly deploy a set of tools to it's schools, particularly primary schools.

What it does

This takes a mixture of commonly available open source tools, as well as some from our own toolkit, and turns them into a horizontally scalable system that a council can quickly deploy across a number of schools (acting as the local education authorities) to provide multi-tenanted tools that are centrally co-ordinated, and allow the schools to immediately move to a toolkit to continue to offer education. This would allow schools to support each other as well as the pupils.

We've got a particular focus on primary schools (ages 4-11) as they find it harder to repurpose the business tools that are often used with older children.

How we built it

Challenges we ran into

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

What's next for Lavvu