It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole month since over 130 of us gathered at Ravensbourne College to get stuck into developing ten ideas to help young people at the second instalment of Interactivism! As we mentioned in our … read more »
Exciting news from Simpl HQ! We are happy to announce the forthcoming launch of round two of Google’s Interactivism challenge – this time looking to harness the power of the web to help young people get into the work, training … read more »
A Space Race you ask? No Sputnik isn’t descending into the Simpl-sphere, nor has FutureGov decided to start innovating the solar system (now there’s an idea…) – this is something FAR more exciting! We have teamed up with Hub King’s Cross … read more »
We’ve had some busy times at Simpl HQ recently, some of which has resulted in a bit of new fangled video fun! The other week, we applied to NESTA’s Innovation in Giving fund, with an idea to develop a localised … read more »
Today’s a bit of a landmark day for Simpl. NESTA’s Creative Councils programme has begun – 17 councils have been shortlisted and NESTA is helping them to develop and refine their proposals to make their innovative ideas happen. But it doesn’t stop … read more »
Some of you might have noticed that Simpl has looked a little wonky in places at times. If that’s you, it’s probably because you’re using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to view the site (N.B. If you’re not using IE6 and … read more »
Salutations! Rachel here – one of the newest members of the FutureGov team. I’ll be working as the Community Organiser for Simpl over the next few months – matchmaking ideas with resources, getting the word out to councils to get … read more »
Yes we know, that’s the same date as Interactivism right? Well there’s plenty of room for both don’t you worry, especially with us down in London with Google and Social Innovation Camp up in Edinburgh this weekend. Social Innovation Camp … read more »
In case you haven’t heard (where have you been hiding? Some of us at Simpl HQ are jealous…) there’s some kind of wedding hoopla happening tomorrow. The bunting bonanza will attract over two billion viewers worldwide, as well as being … read more »
On the look out for Creative Councils Last week NESTA and the Local Government Group launched the search for a small number of trail blazing local authorities across England and Wales to develop, implement and innovate to meet some of … read more »
Image: Ryan Resella You may have noticed last week was a pretty big week for Team Simpl. Months in the making and thanks to the help of so many of you prodding, poking and testing our thinking, we pressed the … read more »
The search is on… “25 exceptional people 25 radical ideas 25 chances to change the world” As you may have noticed, we love matching people with great ideas to opportunities to make things happen. So last week we were pleased … read more »
Today is a very exciting day for me and the others in Team Simpl as we finally go live and open the site to the world. What started as a tiny idea has grown with the support of colleagues in … read more »
It was a match made in heaven. Last weekend Simpl sponsored Global Service Jam London, a three day event that saw teams create 20 brand new services from scratch. Here’s the video that opened the jams, that took place across the … read more »
Another week has flown by, bringing with it our idea of the week WeDidThis, a crowd sourcing platform to support the new arts. WeDidThis, who celebrated their official launch last week, aims to bring arts organisations together with their audiences and … read more »
Today is International Women’s Day 2011. Now over 100 years old, IWD is a day dedicated to inspiring women and celebrating their achievements in a world that remains vastly unequal – where violence against women remains persistent, where the pay … read more »
This week our idea is to take some UK innovation across the pond to Washington DC . The Open Cinema is a film network based in London for homeless and socially excluded people to watch the best in contemporary cinema, … read more »
London 2012 is just around the corner – so it seems the perfect time to be looking at how we can all get that little bit more active in new ways. This week we’ve decided to showcase an idea that’s … read more »
Another week, another awesome idea. This time it’s the The Social App Store, submitted by John Popham. The mission is to give tools and ideas to people in communities so they can get together and get stuff done. As you’d expect … read more »
Simpl is all about connecting social innovators with the people who have the resources to make their ideas happen. So, we thought you might be interested to learn about the small scale grants on offer from the Cabinet Office. These … read more »
Another week, another great idea pops up on Simpl. This week, it is School of Everything groups. Paul Miller, from School of Everything, is looking for “pioneering local authorities” to help create “a local network of hundreds of groups” delivering … read more »
What a month! Working hard and partying hard. Present shopping and festive eating. Snow in the UK and snow on the US East Coast. And in the midst of all of this, we have been asking 100 of you to … read more »
Simpl – the social innovation marketplace from Simpl on Vimeo. It feels like only yesterday we introduced you all to the concept behind Simpl, our social innovation marketplace. Less than 6 months ago we shared our *very* early thoughts on … read more »
After our event last week in Washington DC, Marcela Sabino shared a link with us that she thought we might like – and she was right! Steve Johnson, “best-selling author of six books on the intersection of science, technology and personal … read more »
Sign up to the event here now! Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find the right person in government (or any other organization for that matter!) to help you make your idea a reality. Fix this, tweak that, wouldn’t … read more »
As we’ve blogged about before, unlike existing government contests that ask for an answer, Simpl aims to put government agencies, businesses, individuals and non-profit agencies on equal footing when it comes to not only solving problems, but also identifying which … read more »
As we mentioned in a previous blog post, FutureGov and Rock Creek are proud to join forces to bring you Simpl, a social innovation marketplace. Simpl will connect government, business, nonprofits and individuals with ideas and resources to help them … read more »
Since we first casually started dropping it into conversations (i.e. FutureGov’s version of a ‘soft launch’), we’ve been totally overwhelmed by the positive reaction to Simpl – our upcoming ‘social innovation marketplace’. From ridiculously clever people with good ideas to very … read more »
Hello As you can see, we thought it was high time we started a blog for Simpl as we’re not far away from being able to share project timelines, some working tech and also who our early adopting project partners … read more »
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