Australia Blog
News and notes from Google Down Under
National Homelessness Week 2018: Using Ask Izzy to help understand and address homelessness in Australia
Friday, August 10, 2018
Guest blog from David Spriggs, CEO of Infoxchange for
Homelessness Week 2018
It’s a devastating reality that thousands of Australians don’t have anywhere to sleep tonight. The latest census recorded a
14 per cent
increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness over the past five years.
For people experiencing homelessness, finding the services and support they need is a daily struggle. In 2016, we launched
Ask Izzy
– the mobile site developed at Infoxchange in partnership with
Google.org
, realestate.com.au and News Corp Australia that connects people in need with services such as housing, food, support and counselling and more.
In the last 12 months there have been more than 680,000 searches for help on
Ask Izzy
, and more than 1 million since the site was
launched
by Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull in 2016.
Most of these searches are for food and housing. The average daily demand for food-related services on
Ask Izzy
has tripled over the past year, reflecting cost of living pressures on Australians as they struggle to feed themselves and their family.
Ask Izzy’s top 10 categories nationwide
Loading...
Using data for positive social change
These searches on
Ask Izzy
provide an unprecedented view of the demand for services across Australia. We want to use this data to help inform service delivery and decision making - that’s why we’ve developed the new
Ask Izzy Open Data Platform
, with support from Google, to make this information available to policymakers and service providers.
Using data from Ask Izzy, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the platform will be able to show us exactly where and what the demand is for services such as housing, food, health and more across Australia.
The Ask Izzy Open Data Platform is currently in the beta testing phase and will be available more widely later this month.
If service providers and policymakers can see exactly what help people need, and where they need it, they can better plan and make decisions around how homelessness and support services are delivered.
We hope this will help people who are struggling throughout Australia to get better support to meet their needs.
The Ask Izzy Open Data Platform will be available later this month – if you’re interested in finding out more or seeing a preview, please
get in touch
.
What can you do to help?
We know that almost 80 percent of people who are homeless own a smartphone but often they don’t have anywhere to charge it. Find out how you can
help solve this problem
and learn more about Ask Izzy
here
.
Posted by David Spriggs, CEO of Infoxchange
Labels
20%
3D
AdSense
AdWords
AdWords Express
Agencies
agencies adwords TV
Analytics
android
announcements
antarctica
App Marketplace
apps
art
Australia
Australian IT
big data
Big Query
blogging
blogs
books
broadband
business
calendar
campaign management
careers
CeBIT
chrome
Chromebox
cloud computing
competition
computer science
conversion tracking
creativity
currents
cyber safety
cycling
dashboard
Developer Day
developers
digital advertising
digital economy
Display
display ads
Doodles
drive
ebooks
education
Election
energy
enhanced campaigns
Enterprise
entrepreneurship
environment
Equatorgate
Fairfax
film
filtering
G'day Google
Getting Aussie Business Online
Gmail
gone google
gonegoogle
google
Google App Engine
Google Apps
Google Apps for Business
Google Apps for Education
Google Art Project
Google Australia
Google Chrome
Google Code
Google docs
Google Drive
Google Earth
google maps
Google Places
google play
Google Search
Google Serve
Google Sites
Google Talk
Google Trends
Google+
Googlers and culture
government
green
Guest blogger
guest speakers
Hangouts
HR
iGoogle
information
innovation
internet
internet industry
IT
Julia Gillard
language
life
local
maps
measurement
media industry
mobile
Moderator
movies
music
navigation
NBN
netball
new features
news
NGEN
non-profit
online advertising
online safety
open government
open source
Partnerships
picasa
play
Policy
politics
prime minister
privacy
prizes
PSI
publishers
puppies
real estate
Reception
recruitment
removals
rentals
reporting
research
Running
scholarships
schools
science
search
search ads
Security
shopping
sitelinks
sketchup
small business
smartphones
SMB
street view
student programs
students
Stupid Google employee tricks
Summer of Code
Support
survey
sydney
symphony
tablet
technology
Themes
tips
training
transit
translate
transparency
transport
Universities
vault
voicesearch
Wave
women
workplace culture
YouTube
YouTube Live
zeitgeiest
Archive
2019
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2018
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2017
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2016
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2015
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
2014
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2013
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2012
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2011
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2010
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2009
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2008
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2007
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Feed
Follow @googledownunder
Give us feedback in our
Product Forums
.
