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MentaPeep is about finding the right people to guide you onto your career path through 1st hand support and advice. By putting people in touch with those currently in the environment they wish to pursue, they can gain an insight to how, why and what is required as part of the job or training.
Mohammed - 01/26/2012
Good literacy development from an early age is an important asset in every child’s life. Reading serves as the major foundational skill for all school-based learning – it is a multifaceted process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Our idea is a collaborative venture created to provide a new perspective, build on knowledge and develop important life skills. “Learn & display literacy project” can materialise by uniting children, young people, parents, cultural leaders and museums in Tower Hamlets, London. Participants develop a cultural storybook outside of school in order to increase literacy rates, community engagement and parental involvement in children’s reading development.
- 01/25/2012
When implemented, this will revolutionize the collective growth of students all across the globe. Learning should be interactive, different and entertaining. "IIBIT!" seeks to break cultural diversity and school curriculum rigidity in order to create a fresh approach to educational development.
Andy - 12/15/2011
The annual UK Children's Fine Art Competition is open to all children aged from 4 - 16 years of age. Endorsed by The Department for Education, it is an exciting, highly rewarding and all inclusive opportunity which aims to raise the aspirations of children and endow children with the best of values and principles. But it also provides significant cross-curricular learning opportunities in History, Geography, Citizenship, Religious Studies and several other subjects
Alan - 11/18/2011
A package of stories and materials aimed at encouraging generations to connect together using modern technology in a fun, informative way via the internet.
Vivian - 06/03/2011
I reject the notion that apathy is the reason the rebellions of the Middle East have not spread to the west. Where I am from, US, the workforce must endure longer and longer hours for less and less pay. By the time people get home from work, so they can support their families, they have barely enough energy to think let alone educate themselves on the facts and their rights as individuals, citizens of the world. My idea would bring resources together to deliver truth where all others fail.
relay73 - 05/25/2011
The single most valuable thing we can do for vulnerable children is to ensure that the professionals in their lives have the training to notice that they are vulnerable, and to help them. We have the knowledge, but the training is not accessible to the children's workforce. I want to build the skill and confidence of every professional working with vulnerable children, by providing an accessible, meaningful, and useful module based teaching programme.
Stephen - 04/14/2011
Qykno, Careerspotting 4 Kids - using video storytelling & social gaming to make Career Day, Every Day for 12-21 year olds.
Kalimah - 04/06/2011
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
Imagine having the power of realtime collaborative editing integrated with a full-fledged social networking site.
Matt - 01/20/2011
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
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Interests : social media, social innovation, e-participation, open government, urban planning, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, public participation, apps, arts
Email : hello@ecomodo.com
Organization : Ecomodo.com
Role : co-founder
Interests : collaborative consumption, design, problem solving, collaborative technologies, design-thinking, digital inclusion, environment, fundraising, green technology, grassroots projects to empower communities, hyper local resources, innovation platforms, microfinance, networking, new economics, people, re-use, service design, sharing, share economy, sharepoint, social change, social enterprise, sustainability, user experience design, community engagement
Email : regant1@me.com
Organization : Catalyst Psychology
Role : Managing Director
Interests : Children's Services
Organization : Children's Scrapstore
Role : Funding Manager
Interests : Environment, Children and Youth Employment
Email : stephenrice1@gmail.com
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Interests : children services, child protection, safeguarding, safeguading2.0, social work, training, risk analysis
Email : robert@blastbeat.org
Organization : Blastbeat Education UK
Role : Director General
Interests : Education, Music, Youth Social Enterprise creation, At Risk children, NEETs, Empowering young people, Insirping people to be their best and to become change-makers, music and entertainment's business.
Organization : TheGivingMachine
Role : Founder, Managing Director
Interests : collaboration, community solutions, consumer research, education, Fundraising, learning, local economies, public spending data, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneur, social media, social networking, social networks, social venture
Email : rgsmedley@gmail.com
Organization : Cuprium
Role : Making it happen
Interests : openmoney, freesoftware, permaculture, hackspace, accessibility, affordable homeownership for low income households, aikido, biodiversity, collaboration, digital divide, digital inclusion, drupal, gardens, microfinance, philosophy, programming, project management, public service transformation, public spending data, race online, re-use, regeneration, regional economies, local economies, local food systems, renewable energy, rural, social enterprise, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, software development, sustainability, sustainable travel, transition towns, urban spaces, allotments, urbangardening
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Organization : Boston City Hall
Role : Co-Chair, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Interests : work, 21stcc, access city, accessibility, action, adaptive technology, affordable homeownership for low income households, ageing well, agencies, and social change, a new govxo-driven republic!, anthropological studies, anthropology, apis, arts education, arts, app store, apps, assistive equipment, assistive technology, authentic collaboration and uncommon sense, autism, big society, change, channel development, children, cities, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, city space, civic engagement, co-design, co-creation, collaboration, co-working, co-production, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, web development, web design, web 2.0, visual thinking, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, user experience design, 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, tech, technology, startups, start ups, startup consulting