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What if we could give people who are very good at telling stories and communicating through visuals an understanding of how they could better work with public services & civil society and give policy makers new perspectives on how they present their policies and issues they cover and make them more engaging to the public?
Noel - 04/12/2011
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
Email :
Organization :
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
Email : k.barr@ljmu.ac.uk
Organization : Liverpool John Moores University
Role : Business Development Manager
Interests : waste reduction, arts, carbon footprint, desirable and valuable commercial services, doing more with less, eco projects, facilitation, health and wellbeing, public sector innovation, sustainability
Organization : What's On Cupar
Role : Founder
Interests : Community management / ownership, civic engagement, and social change, co-production, collaboration, community assets / transfer, community profit, community solutions, doing more with less, environment, government, ideas, innovation problem solving, inclusion, lifelong learning, local economies, public engagement, pubic policy, public participation, public spaces, public value, scotland, socialinnovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation
Email : james.sweetman@stickyboard.co.uk
Organization : Stickyboard
Role : Marketing & PR Manager
Interests : Social Enterprise and Giving Communities Voice , citizen engagement/voice, communities, community, community development, doing more with less, localgov, local government, london, london 2012, marketing, our society, social enterprise, social change
Email :
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
Organization : Events Northern Ltd
Role :
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
Email : andrew@21apps.com
Organization : 21apps
Role : Founder and CEO
Interests : SharePoint, Rightshifting, Agile, Lean, Doing more with less
Organization : Leicestershire County Council
Role : Website Development Officer
Interests : arts, collaborative technologies, communities, cultural industries, culture, e-participation, drupal, digital inclusion, doing more with less, libraries, learning, online learning, open source, open data, public libraries, public sector, public sector innovation, socialbysocial, social media, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, startup, technology, user experience and usability, web 2.0, web accessibility, web design, web development, wedidthis, Museums