They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Changes in the economy, the needs and wants of consumers, increased competition and new internet based technologies are having profound effects on society. Trust in business and government has fallen dramatically as the man in the street struggles to see the benefits of paying taxes into a system that increasingly seems to favour the well off.
Government and business organisations continually capture information on the way people behave, sometimes without consent, and appear more focused on meeting their own needs to turn a profit, rather than meeting those that ultimately pay their salaries – the customer. The credit crunch has exposed a system that gives jobs to the boys.
MyHomeTown sees a need to update the way these organisations act towards the man in the street and create a new way of working that provides help for communities to operate more economically, more responsibly and more justly.
MyHomeTown wants to help people to rekindle their sense of community identity and giving them a chance to financially benefit from storing valuable information about themselves – rather than others taking it off them unwittingly - will rebalance the relationship between us and those whose salaries we pay through our taxes and through the things we choose to buy and the services we consume.