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Email : ursula.davies@designcouncil.org.uk
Organization : Design Council
Role : Programme Manager
Interests : design, ageing
Email : sarah.wixey@jmp.co.uk
Organization : JMP
Role : Associate
Interests : Social inclusion, accessibility, sustainable travel, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, equity and social justice., ageing well, anthropology, apps, book sharing, changing the way we grow and manufacture our food., cities, citizen engagement, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, collaborative decision making, community, community engagement, community mapping, connecting social innovators with great resources, creativity, cycling, deaf, design for all, disability, disabled people, entrepreneurship, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, health and wellbeing, inclusion, local food systems, local government, mental health, mapping, migrants, networking, older people, poverty, psychology, pubic policy, public engagement, public sector innovation, regeneration, schools, social entrepreneurs, social innovation and innovative policy making, sustainability, third sector, travel, urban planning, urban spaces, web 2.0, young people
Email : info@locomatrix.com
Organization : LocoMatrix Ltd
Role : Director
Interests : ageing well, business startups, augmented reality, independent living, old people, yoga, game, digital inclusion, elearning
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Organization : Boston City Hall
Role : Co-Chair, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Interests : work, 21stcc, access city, accessibility, action, adaptive technology, affordable homeownership for low income households, ageing well, agencies, and social change, a new govxo-driven republic!, anthropological studies, anthropology, apis, arts education, arts, app store, apps, assistive equipment, assistive technology, authentic collaboration and uncommon sense, autism, big society, change, channel development, children, cities, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, city space, civic engagement, co-design, co-creation, collaboration, co-working, co-production, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, web development, web design, web 2.0, visual thinking, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, user experience design, to build the skills and capacity needed for fastand social changebig societybusiness supportbusiness valuechangecitizen engagementco-creationco-productioncollaborationcollaborative governancecommissioningcommunities of practicecommunity solutionsconnecting social innovators with great resourcescreativityculture changeenterpriseinclusion accessibilityinnovation problem solvinginnovatorsopen innovationparticipationpubic policypublic sector innovationsocial businesssocial enterprisesocial enterprise and giving communities voicesocial innovation and innovative policy makingstartup consultingusing ideas and evidence to drive social innovationyoung peopleaction, tech, technology, startups, start ups, startup consulting
Organization : Centrifuge Consulting ltd
Role : Director
Interests : action, ageing well, agencies, agile, adaptive technology, anthropological studies, apps, arts, arts education, arts funding, asset transfer, assistive technology, befriending, big society, bureaucracy, business startups, business support, business value, catalytic change, change, children, children services, cities, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, commissioning, communications, communities, communities of practice, community, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community development trusts, community management / ownership, community mapping, community media, community solutions, community profit, connecting social innovators with great resources, consumer research, council, creative industries, creativity, crowdsourcing, cultural industries, culture, culture change, current affairs, customer services, democracy, design, design-thinking, design for all, design thinking, design thinking and project management, diagnostics, digital inclusion, disabled people, economic development, eco projects, editing, education, empowerment, enterprise, entrepreneurship, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, getting fit, gettogethers, get togethers, government, health, health and wellbeing, healthcare, helping people into work, heritage/history, homelessness, human services, hyper local content, hyper local resources, ideas, incentive structures, inclusion, inclusion accessibility, independent living, innovation, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, intercultural communication, international development, kids, knowledge management, lean, lifelong learning, local, local economies, local government, local government communities, mapping, marketing, networks, network society, network, new forms and styles of work, new technology, nudge, older adults, older people, older people services, online consultations, online learning, open data, open government, open innovation, open source, open source sharing, organically grown public services, organisation, our scoiety, our society, participation, ownership, participative design., participatory budgeting, people., planning, politics, poverty, private sector, private spaces, project management, pubic policy, public, public administration improvement, public engagement, public libraries, public participation, public policy, public sector, public sector innovation, public service, public spaces, public spending data, public value, real world and online engagement, refugees, regional economies, rural, schools, scotland, scrutiny, service, service design, shared understanding, social, social app store, social business, socialbysocial, social care, social change, social change., social design and thinking, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, socialinnovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social interaction, social media, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, social practices, social reporting, socialreporting co-design engagement networks, social venture, social venturing, society, software development, startups, strategy, sustainability, teachers, technology, third sector, to build the skills and capacity needed for fast, to build the skills and capacity needed for fastand social changebig societybusiness supportbusiness valuechangecitizen engagementco-creationco-productioncollaborationcollaborative governancecommissioningcommunities of practicecommunity solutionsconnecting social innovators with great resourcescreativityculture changeenterpriseinclusion accessibilityinnovation problem solvinginnovatorsopen innovationparticipationpubic policypublic sector innovationsocial businesssocial enterprisesocial enterprise and giving communities voicesocial innovation and innovative policy makingstartup consultingusing ideas and evidence to drive social innovationyoung peopleaction, transformation, unemployment, universities, urban planning, urban spaces, usability, user experience and usability, user experience design, user involvement, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, volunteering, volunteerism, visual thinking, walking, web design, work, young people, youth
Email : ken.clemens@ageukcheshire.org.uk
Organization : age uk cheshire
Role : policy & campaigns
Interests : Hyper local resources, ageing well, social change.
Organization : RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
Role : Research Associate
Interests : access to the web as a publishing arena for elder, access to the web as a publishing arena for elder activists, activist, activism, adult social care, ageing, ageing well, and ice cream, citizen engagement, cities, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, civic engagement, city space, citizenship, civic entrepreneurship, co-creation, co-design, co-production, coffee and conversation, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative consumption, communities, community activism, community assets / transfer, community blogging, community engagement, community media, community mapping, coproduction, councils, creative councils, data, datasets, design, design council, design-thinking, design for all, design thinking, digital inclusion, hyperlocal blogs, hyper local content, hyper local resources, inclusion, inclusion accessibility, inclusive design, independent living, infographics, innovation for inclusion, innovation platforms, innovative social applications, interactivism, interface design for older people - inclusive design, localism, mapping, media, older adults, older people, old people, older people services, open data, opendata, open space, our society, participative design., pop up shops, public engagement, service design, social collaboration, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social inclusion, social innovation, urban co-production, urban planning
Organization : Castlehaven
Role : Director
Interests : ageing well, children, children services, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, co-design, co-production, collaboration, community assets / transfer, community development trusts, creative industries, digital inclusion, emedia, entertainment and community events, entrepreneurship, fundraising, gardens, health and wellbeing, helping people into work, information technology, kids, knowledge management, lifelong learning, literacy, local economies, localgov, local government, mental health, music, new forms and styles of work, new technology, older adults, older people, older people services, our scoiety, photography, poverty, public sector, public sector innovation, regeneration, service improvement, social enterprise, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, socialinnovation, social reporting, startup, startup consulting, startups, start ups, strategy, tech, technology, theatre, volunteering, volunteerism, web design, web development, young people, youth
Email : tech4health@gmail.com
Organization : tech4health
Role : Director and Occupational Therapist
Interests : access to the web as a publishing arena for elder, adaptive technology, adoption of innovations, ageing well, ageing, allotments, agile, applications, apps, aspirations, befriending, change agents, citizen engagement, civic empowerment and deliberative democracy, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, coaching, collaborative, collective intelligence, commons, connecting people, connectivity, coproduction, creating shared value, digital, digital inclusion: esp. middle-aged upwards, digital innovation, digital literacy, digital technology, disruption, educational technology, elder, entepreneur, ethical business practice, game-changing, grassroots projects to empower communities, hackday, hackspace, hack, hackathon, harnessing public sector skills for community improvement, health, healthcare, health and wellbeing, inclusion accessibility, inclusive design, innovation - through the use of technology., innovation and team work, innovation for inclusion, innovative social applications, interface design for older people - inclusive design, job creation, lean, mentoring, mobile working, networking for grandparents, older people, older adults, participation, participative design., participatory decision making, peer2peer, professional, public and third sector innovation, public sector innovation, risk analysis, service delivery, service delivery online, service design, service redesign, service improvement, social business, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social inclusion, social media, social networking, social return on investment, startup, startups, strategy, telecare, text message services, usability, user experience and usability, user involvement, volunteering, web accessibility, web 2.0, wellbeing, crochet, MOOC, Massive Open Online Course, distributed, networked, virtual learning environment, distributed networked virtual learning environment