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Inspiring young citizens to co-create social impact in their communities.
Yogesh - 01/09/2012
The idea takes its roots from my in-progress PhD research, which title is "Questa casa non รจ un albergo" (literally "This house is not a hotel").
angela - 11/21/2011
Your Town is an open platform for over 60's to get involved in community projects, through both online and offline engagement.-
Amy - 05/24/2011
An online space designed to facilitate connections between public and private asset owners, community entrepreneurs, social investors and professional supporters.
Sarah - 04/12/2011
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 : Open Forum Foundation
Role : Executive Director
Interests : citizen engagement, technology, public participation, Congress, agencies, social media, collaboration, participation, culture change, event facilitation
Email : toby@urbanforum.org.uk
Organization : Urban Forum
Role : CEO
Interests : citizen engagement/voice, empowerment, digital inclusion, social media, open data
Email : ted.fowler@bristol.gov.uk
Organization : Economic Development, Bristol Futures Division, Bristol City Council
Role : "Officer":- team worker
Interests : appreciative inquiry, asset transfer, citizen engagement, co-creation, economic development, entrepreneurship, equity and social justice., placemaking and leadership, civic entrepreneurship, Partnership: risk and trust, Problem solving, commons
Email : sarah.eustace@locality.org.uk
Organization : The Place Station
Role :
Interests : community buildings, enterprise, collaborative consumption, asset transfer, citizen engagement, community management / ownership
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
Organization : Marsh Farm Outreach
Role : Director
Interests : activism, affordable homeownership for low income households, asset transfer, big society, catalytic social change, changing the way we grow and manufacture our food., change, citizen engagement/voice, citizen engagement, citizenship, civic engagement, civil rights, collaboration, co-working, collaborative, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, communities, community activism, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community development trusts, community engagement, community engagement; design; youth leadership; personal development; sustainability, community hosts, community management / ownership, community media, community organisation, community solutions, conscious consumers, doing more with less, emancipation, enterprise development, grassroots projects, grassroots projects to empower communities, helping people into work, inclusion, innovation for inclusion, local economic development, local economies, new economics, organisation, outreach, participative design., participatory budgeting, permaculture, public and voluntary and community sectors, renewable energy, self education, social business, social change, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social inclusion, social innovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social innvoation, social interaction, unemployment, urban co-production, volunteer, volunteering, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship
Organization : Saith
Role :
Interests : Graphic Design, arts education, access city, apps, asset transfer, assistive equipment, bid of first., child protection, cities, citizen engagement/voice, usability, urban spaces
Organization : Slivers of Time
Role :
Interests : Adult social care, volunteering, timebanking, citizen engagement, web technology, unemployment
Organization :
Role :
Interests : citizen engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, collaborative technologies, community assets / transfer, community mapping, connecting social innovators with great resources, creativity, crowdsourcing, dementia, design-thinking, design thinking, design thinking and project management, digital innovation
Email : panthea@thereboot.org
Organization : Reboot
Role : Creative Director
Interests : accessibility, citizen engagement/voice, civic engagement, co-design, collaboration, gov20, inclusion, open government, open source, participation, public engagement, public participation, rural, service design, strategy, technology, visual thinking, design