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Shaped By Us - We are community-crowd-sourcing ideas that could tackle our future challenges. (check out our film).
- 07/28/2011
I want to revolutionise the way that refugees, asylum seekers and trafficked persons access rehabilitation by providing a national network of Rehabilitation Advocates, drawn from the refugee community. This is complimented by expert training for service providers. This places refugees at the heart of the solution to the problem and improves their integration prospects.
Lucinda - 04/26/2011
Can community-led childcare help parents back to work? More generally, are existing sharing schemes working to maximising benefits to the local communities that use them? Barnet Council (UK) is setting up a local innovation bank to implement big society ideas in Barnet. I often hear mention of shared childcare as an issue to be solved - but with no practical ideas attached.
Julian - 04/22/2011
Stickyboard aims to celebrate and promote local activity by providing an online neighbourhood noticeboard for each borough in London. Here local residents, groups, clubs and businesses can share their news, events and services for all to see.
James - 04/05/2011
How can we use available public resources in new ways to support the creation of great art?
Ed - 12/07/2010
Public Services by Design is a mentoring service for public service providers who want to develop and deliver more effective, efficient, and customer focussed services. The Design Council has now extended the opportunity to apply for match funding to include applications received before the end of January. If you are interested in applying and would like some further information, please contact the Programme Manager, Pauline Shakespeare, directly on 020 7420 5275 or or go to www.designcouncil.org.uk/publicsector. Applications must be received by the end of January 2012.
Pauline - 01/19/2012
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
We are looking for applicants for the Big Venture Challenge: a new programme of funding and support from UnLtd
Dan - 04/04/2011
Email : olivierschulbaum@platoniq.net
Organization : youcoop
Role : co-founder
Interests : crowdfunding, community profit, mutual education, commons
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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 : City of Westminster
Role : Principal Economic Development Officer
Interests : accessibility, arts funding, assets, asset transfer, big society, business startups, business support, business value, city space, collaborative decision making, community development, creative industries, enterprise development, innovators, long term unemployed, socail entrepreneruiship
Email : youngleithers@gmail.com
Organization : Young Leithers
Role : Youth Work Organiser
Interests : urban spaces, social networks, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social enterprise, politics, poverty, philanthropy, funding, empowerment, creativity, communities, community, children services, arts education, arts
Organization : Cambridgeshire County Council
Role :
Interests : using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, sustainable travel, sustainability, social entrepreneur, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, green technology, cleantech, EU funding
Email : themagicwillhappen@gmail.com
Organization : Rise Up UK
Role : Founder
Interests : business startups, Benefits Camp, Disability, Social Enterprise, Micro Enterprise, Disabled People User Led Organisation, development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), digital inclusion, digital campaigning, designer, FutureGov, digital innovation, disabled people, disability arts, work creation, writing, welfare reform, welfare to work, web development, web technology, web design, web accessibility, visual arts, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, social justice, social innvoation, making a difference, internet solutions, interactivism, interactive design, innovation for inclusion, innovation - through the use of technology., information technology, graphic design, government, Mental Health, Invisible Illness, crowdfunding, design thinking, design for social and economic renewal, digital literacy, digital technology, disabled, empowerment, entepreneur, enterprise development, equal opportunities
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
Organization : Islington Giving
Role : Programme Manager
Interests : and social change, citizen engagement/voice, civic engagement, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative technologies, communities, community, community development, community management / ownership, community solutions, crowdfunding, current affairs, education, empowerment, helping people into work, homelessness, ideas, inclusion, innovation, innovation problem solving, innovators, isolation, lifelong learning, local, local economies, local government, london, migrants, networks, new forms and styles of work, new technology, older adults, open data, open source, our scoiety, our society, participation, philanthropy, politics, poverty, public engagement, public participation, public service, public spaces, public value, real world and online engagement, refugees, shared understanding, social audio and online media, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social innovation, socialinnovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social media, social network analysis, social networks, storytelling, strategy, third sector, user involvement, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation
Email : ed@wedidthis.org.uk
Organization : WeDidThis
Role : Founder
Interests : Arts Funding, Philanthropy
Email : dfs@specialisterne.org.uk
Organization : Specialisterne Scotland
Role : General Manager
Interests : Autism, IT, accessibility, agile, and social change, collaboration, collaborative technologies, crowdfunding, design thinking and project management, google docs, innovation, new technology, social enterprise, visual thinking, web, web design, web20