Interestingly in relation to some work I am researching myself, I found this link to Communities of Shalom, a community development process (using ABCD) developed by the United Methodist Church in the USA but desgned to create communities of wholeness across all demographic boundaries (including faith). As the newsletter notes: The ShalomZone model of community developmentwas instigated in 1992 as a positive and holistic response to the social uprising in Los Angeles that Spring. Since then, over 360 Shalom Teams have been trained in asset-based community development.. The link is here: http://communitiesofshalom.org/index.html

updated by @adrian-pyle: 11/03/16 02:37:30AM

Wow Adrian! I only had a brief look but it looks very interesting! 360 teams? Incredible...I look forward to reading more on the site soon!Dee...

My looking into this has also thrown up the following organisation (the words are below are from my contact at Communities of Shalom). I am sure they are well known but their processes and tools seem to have such potential and relate well to what I am looking at here (not just the 'high tech" ideas which may or may not have application here). Are you aware of them? Worth more conversation I think....Also of note is the Community Connections web-based method of neighborhood building using their program known as CCAMP: http://www.ctassets.org/cc_home.htm. In my conversations with top leadership at ABCDI, Microsoft and Google, the CCAMP program is seen asa the cats meow or the quintessential GIS based high tech asset mapping program for community building. Users enter their own assets and address which are then collected in a searchable GIS database that is available to (as an administrator allows) to all users.