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The aim is re-frame the super villain using Joseph Campbell 'Heroes journey' as an adapted framework. Turning the "young person" in to a superhero. The service facilitates options for young people to get involved in street art in a non illegal way.
Amy, Gin, Matt, Tanya, Maximo, Gail, Sal - 03/29/2011
Using social technology to improve information management in the public sector to support child protection professionals.
Lauren - 11/22/2010
The Design Council is looking for ten ambitious public sector organisations to take part in the next round of its Public Services by Design programme. Win £5,000 to £15,000 of match funded mentoring, depending on the scale, level and scope of your project.
Pauline - 10/07/2011
Email : stephenrice1@gmail.com
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Interests : children services, child protection, safeguarding, safeguading2.0, social work, training, risk analysis
Email : youngleithers@gmail.com
Organization : Young Leithers
Role : Youth Work Organiser
Interests : urban spaces, social networks, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social enterprise, politics, poverty, philanthropy, funding, empowerment, creativity, communities, community, children services, arts education, arts
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
Organization : Solar Family Systems
Role : principal
Interests : social networking, bureaucracy, human services, photography, child protection, children services, civic engagement, collaboration, California, Sonoma County
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
Organization : FutureGov
Role : Director
Interests : apps, children services, app store, disability, localgov, local government, government, social innovation, technology