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iCan is website that connects people who need something done with safe, reliable young people who can make it happen.
Scott - 01/10/2012
Shaped By Us - We are community-crowd-sourcing ideas that could tackle our future challenges. (check out our film).
- 07/28/2011
A Big Society Community-based Social Care Concept which can rethink the Meals on Wheels service.
Murtaza - 07/06/2011
There is the chance to collaboratively & creatively rethink how Library services are delivered to meet the needs of local communities.
Chris - 04/06/2011
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
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
Creative Councils is a new programme from NESTA, working with the Local Government Group, to support local authorities to develop and implement radical innovations that meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Lauren - 04/14/2011
Email : lucinda@remedypartnership.org.uk
Organization : Remedy Partnership
Role : Founder
Interests : Refugees, health, mental health, social enterprise, commissioning, communities, councils, entrepreneurship, equity and social justice., health and wellbeing, helping people into work, public services
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
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Interests : change, channel development, cities, citizen engagement, citizen journalism, co-creation, co-design, collaboration, collaborative governance, council, crowdsourcing, crisismapping, datasets, democracy, ebooks, gov20, innovation, local government, nudge, open data, open government, open innovation, open source, public engagement, public participation, public sector innovation, public service, reading, scotland, service improvement, social innovation, social media, social networks, social reporting, transport open data, web 2.0, web development
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 : 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
Organization : Events Northern Ltd
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Interests : ageing well, apps, app store, arts, arts funding, branding, business support, business value, challenge competition, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, classrooms, co-creation, co-working, co-production, collaboration, commissioning, communications, community development, community media, connecting social innovators with great resources, council, creative industries, creativity, cultural industries, culture, cycling, doing more with less, event facilitation, health, health and wellbeing, healthcare, innovation, innovators, mental health, networks, new technology, olympic legacy, participation, private sector, pubic policy, public libraries, reading, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social media