A 21st Century solution for a 21st Century Digital agenda

Project Gamerz (Pgz) is a unique interactive project designed to engage with disenfranchised youth groups across London through interactive gaming, e-learning and digital engagement, and representing e-sports in UK as well.?
The intention has always been to deploy in five Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) wards across London in ²⁰¹⁰⁄₁₁. Project Gamerz uses interactive software to bring young people into specially equipped digital hubs where they can learn new skills and engage with community projects and their local Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNT). Project Gamerz offers an avenue to engage with key young persons/groups (Male & Female aged 10-16) within London and will provide a unique socially responsible strategy, intended to actively bridge the digital divide. It will provide mainstream press exposure through the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and associated stakeholder PR’s thus providing a London wide promotion of a more robust and measureable Corporate and Social Responsibility budget spend.?
In 2008 Project Gamerz launched with Phase 1 in the Riverside Ward of the London Borough at the new multi million pound Salmon community Centre. Phase 1 offered young people the chance to play the latest interactive software games twice a week in a hotspot area in London for juvenile anti-social behaviour (ASB). The resulting success of Phase 1 was measured with a decrease in juvenile related incidents week on week throughout Phase 1.
? Phase 2 was set to launch in 2010 with five locations. The project plan is to seamlessly roll Phase 2 into Phase 3 ? before moving into Phase 4 which is a wider integration across everyone MPS Ward locations in Greater London.
The intranet platform, designed, built and paid for by the MPS and additional support from the corporate sector ? was completed in March/April 2009, and is awaiting activation by the installation and support of kit in multiple locations. The code is intact, in storage, and awaiting activation. The system was designed modularly, which means that functionality can be activated / deactivated at will.
? In addition to the above Southwark have two small mobile mini buses that are equipped with computers (10) that are linked and enable the police to promote PGz into estates and locations that have no access to digital hubs. Both these vehicles are in high demand and offer an opportunity for young people to try out all the latest interactive software and at the same time be engaged and diverted into other projects thereby minimising their involvement in ASB and crime.