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Organization : Enspiral
Role : Connector
Interests : action, activism, apps, asset transfer, change, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-working, collaboration, collaborative consumption, communication, communities, communities of practice, communications, community development, community engagement, culture, design, design thinking, Conscious Consumers, disruption, digital, e-learning, bio-mimicry, energy, enterprise, entrepreneurship, enviroment, filmmaking, graphic design, infographics, innovation, innovators, inspiration, internet solutions, local, local food systems, open innovation, open enterprise, organic, participative design., community sector, emancipation, regeneration, service delivery, social, social business, social change, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social gaming, social innovation, social media, social venture, sustainability, technology, tech, transition towns, transformation, user experience design, volunteering, web design, web development, youth
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Role : Projects
Interests : action, and social change, anthropological studies, anthropology, apps, app store, art, arts, arts education, arts funding, asset transfer, big society, career guidance, challenge competition, change, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, city space, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, commissioning, commons, communications, communities, communities of practice, community, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community management / ownership, community mapping, community media, community solutions, complexity, connecting social innovators with great resources, consumer research, consumption, creative industries, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture, culture change, democracy, design, design thinking, digital tech, disruption, doing more with less, empowerment, enabling spaces, empty buildings, engagement, entertainment and community events, entrepreneurship, event facilitation, forecasting, get togethers, government, graphic design, helping people into work, high/low/sub/all culture, human services, incentive structures, innovation, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, intercultural communication, local, local economies, local food systems, localgov, local government, local government communities, london, london 2012, mapping, mutual education, networks, network society, new forms and styles of work, nudge, olympic legacy, opengov, open government, open innovation, open source sharing, organically grown public services, our society, participation, participative design., participatory budgeting, politics, poverty, public engagement, public participation, public policy, public sector, public service, public sector innovation, public service reform, public services, public spaces, public value, real world and online engagement, service design, shared understanding, social app store, social business, social change, social design and thinking, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, social interaction, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, social practices, social reporting, visual thinking
Organization : Great Lakes Protection Fund
Role : Vice President, Programs
Interests : design thinking and project management, ecology, innovation, innovators, lifelong learning, open data, social venture, environment, disruption, finance, catalytic change, transformation, game-changing
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
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Organization : Hull City Council
Role : Stakeholder Engagement (Building Schools for the Future)
Interests : access city, civic engagement, citizen engagement/voice, co-creation, co-design, co-production, collaboration, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, collaborative, communities, community development, community mapping, community management / ownership, community development trusts, crowdsourcing, design for all, democracy, digital inclusion, disruption, doing more with less, drupal, e-participation, economic development, edemocracy, film, government, google docs, heritage/history, high/low/sub/all culture, homelessness, hyper local resources, innovation problem solving, innovation, innovators, international development, local government, localgov, mapping, mobile, museums, new technology, open data, open government, open innovation, open source, organically grown public services, our society, participative design., participation, philanthropy, public engagement, public administration improvement, public participation, public policy, public sector, public sector innovation, public service, public spending data, public spaces, real world and online engagement, refugees, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social innovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social media, social networking, social networks, social practices, user experience and usability, user involvement, usability, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, travel, transport open data, transformation, truth, third sector, volunteering, volunteerism, web 2.0, web design, web development