With the app, children learn to overcome anxiety, shyness and a lack of confidence – problems which cause their performance at school to suffer and hold back the development of vital life skills. Parents are included in the experience, with a tips section and a report on their child’s responses.

Children take an interactive journey through the story “Mikey Helps Toot-Toot”, from child confidence specialist Kidz4Mation, with Mikey the monkey and his friends, answering questions about their well-being and hunting for hidden bananas on the way.

Kidz4Mation, the company behind the app, specialises in boosting children’s school performance and improving their behaviour by raising their confidence.

You can download the app from the App Store and best of all, it is FREE.

After a few months of preparation, we are now officially in Manchester. You can come around for a visit to Open Space, Unit 1, 41 Old Birley Street, Manchester, Lancashire, M15 5RF.

Read more on “Turning Data into Apps” section, the January 2012 UK edition.

Come and see us at the exhibition, if in town.

TubeTap let’s Londoners automatically apply for refunds for Tube Delays. The app uses Open Data from TFL to enable its service. We think it is about time that open data was used to create apps and services that not just inform but empower citizens.

The major new exhibition at MoMA, called “Talk to Me” deals with “Design and the Communication between People and Objects”, and will run until November 7, 2011.

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We travelled to New York to be there for the launch. You can check out our photos from the exhibition. And here is the hashtag for the Situationist app piece #ttmsituationist