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An activity portfolio tool enabling the measurement, visualisation and analysis of an individual’s transferable knowledge and skills.
Neil - 01/25/2012
Take the pain out of applying for jobs, free up time for volunteering and upskilling, and find employers the best recruits
Andrew - 01/24/2012
A location-based mobile application that exposes an individual to random career related exchanges and opportunities through out the day.
Michael - 01/23/2012
Using Facebook to help young people break down their dreams into everyday manageable steps
Lee - 01/12/2012
Solutions for older people and people who have not used computers before need to be developed from the ground up.
Tom - 05/26/2011
This idea is to develop a more accessible/ user friendly version of a webmail.
Isabel - 05/18/2011
Do you have an idea on how to improve your neighbourhood or your local services? Do you want to win the chance of getting people to turn your idea into reality?
Noel - 09/29/2011
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 :
Role : Visual Designer
Interests : Augmented Reality, AR, Applications, Marketing Solutions, Infographics, Designer, Self Education, m-learning, e-Learning, Cognitive, Instructional, Visual, Projections, Strategic, Designer, Art, arts
Organization : Southampton University
Role : Researcher / Systems architect
Interests : accessibility, adaptive methods, adaptive technology, africa, agile, apis, application, bringing old and young together, business networking, collaboration, collaborative technologies, communities, eco projects, entrepreneurship, feature extraction, health and wellbeing, innovation problem solving, international development, microfinance, open data, problem solving, project and programme mgmt, outreach, random hacks of kindness, software dev
Organization : Cornwall Council
Role : Chief Designer
Interests : public sector innovation, service design, social enterprise and giving communities voice, socialinnovation, user experience design, open data, innovation platforms, innovative social applications, design, design thinking
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
Organization : LB Redbridge
Role :
Interests : adaptive methods, access to the web as a publishing arena for elder, apps, application integration, authentic collaboration and uncommon sense, catalytic social change, channel development, citizenship, citizen engagement/voice, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative decision making, collaborative technologies, collaborative governance, collective intelligence, computers, council, content management, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, culture change, current affairs, democracy, design thinking and project management, digital campaigning, digital inclusion, digital innovation, edemocracy, emedia, government access, hackspace, hyper local content, inclusion accessibility, information architecture, information technology, innovation, internet solutions, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, networking, new technology, opendata, online consultations, opengov, pubic policy, public engagement, public participation, public sector improvement, public sector innovation, race online, social innovation, social media., social networking, social policy, software development, user experience and usability, user experience design, volunteering, web20, web design, web accessibility, web development
Email : ben@brightone.org.uk
Organization : Bright One
Role : Founding Director
Interests : applications, apps, big society, branding, business startups, business support, business value, careers, career guidance, challenge competition, change, city space, citizenship, co-design, co-creation, co-working, co-production, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collective intelligence, collaborative technologies, communication, communications, communities, community, community engagement, community management / ownership, community media, community profit, community organisation, community sector, digital inclusion, enterprise, entrepreneurship, fundraising, funding, inclusive business and architecture, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, inspiration, internet solutions, marketing solutions, media, marketing, london, mobile, open enterprise, open innovation, open source, philanthropy, social, social audio and online media, social business, social change, social enterprise, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship, social gaming, social innovation, social innvoation, social media, social venture, social venturing, startup, startups, start ups, startup consulting, strategy, tech, technology, third sector, volunteerism, volunteering
Email : ann.danylkiw@gmail.com
Organization : annlytical media
Role : information mediator, interactive digital storyteller, tummler
Interests : adaptive technology, interactive documentary, social interaction design, social media, change agency, green technology, innovation, creation, collaboration, human connection, UeX, information architecture, share economy, new economics, documentary, future of news, journalism, education, app, applications, artificial intelligence, application integration, social algorithms, socent, social cohesion and virtual learning, social collaboration, social video, space design, start-ups, startup
Email : andrewf@wcett.co.uk
Organization : NYnet
Role : Head of Product Development
Interests : Community Broadband, Rural Broadband, Innovative Social Applications