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Social Innovation Camp have teamed up with the NECLES HIEC to put together a one-day Express Social Innovation Camp on young people and health on Saturday, 25th February, at the Young Foundation in Bethnal Green.
Social - 02/06/2012
MeshDays offers a unique opportunity for young people to ‘taste’ their potential careers. These employer-led insight days will give individuals the chance to learn, be inspired and network.
Megan - 01/24/2012
There are approximately 1 million trustees in the UK. There are 1 million young people classified as not in employment, education or training(NEET). By supporting and mentoring one or more NEETs, charity trustees can break down obstacles preventing young people from acheiving employment, education and training.
Laura - 01/24/2012
Helping young people to find the employment, education or training opportunities that are right for them by giving young people the opportunity to create their own solutions to employment problems through starting something themselves. We will facilitate this support through a smart phone application that helps with ideas generation before turning the idea into a viable income generating business. It’s clear that young people are the solution to their own problems and with support they have the potential to innovate and come up with the next big business or idea.
SEUN - 01/23/2012
iCan is website that connects people who need something done with safe, reliable young people who can make it happen.
Scott - 01/10/2012
Building a community of IT professionals and learners who want to improve society and themselves.
Mihai - 11/28/2011
Imagine reaching not only consensus but commitment to action within one hour to achieve an idealistic objective which has a social manifestation within a week. This is the action cycle. It is super-lean business practice.
david - 11/17/2011
Shaped By Us - We are community-crowd-sourcing ideas that could tackle our future challenges. (check out our film).
- 07/28/2011
As part of the Interactivism Hack Weekend, Enabled by Design and Go Genie were invited to join forces and work together on developing a mobile phone app to support both projects. We would like to develop a mobile phone app to allow our communities to contribute to our existing websites (http://www.enabledbydesign.org and the Go Genie website which is currently being developed by http://www.peskypeople.co.uk/) more easily and while out and about. The mobile app would give people the ability to take a photo on their phone of a 'Love', 'Hate' or something they've 'Spotted', write some accompanying text and post it to the site by sending it as a text message. A bit like twitpic but for the Enabled by Design and Go Genie websites respectively.
Denise - 07/21/2011
A Big Society Community-based Social Care Concept which can rethink the Meals on Wheels service.
Murtaza - 07/06/2011
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
Enter to win a FREE Hub King's Cross Membership for all of 2012.
Rachel - 11/09/2011
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
Could you make the lives of people affected by dementia better? Would you like a share of £360,000 to do so?
Amanda - 08/26/2011
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
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Role :
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 : tom.matchett@globaldatapoint.com
Organization : Global DataPoint
Role : Account Manager
Interests : Hyper local content, social interaction, entertainment and community events, tech, innovation, access city
Organization : Housing trust
Role : IT Engineer
Interests : information architecture, information technology, innovation for inclusion, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, internet solutions, knowledge management, local, localgov, local government, local government communities, london, network society, networks, older people services, older people, old people, online learning, operating system, problem solving, public, public access computing, public administration improvement, public and voluntary and community sectors, public engagement, public participation, public sector improvement, public sector innovation, public service, public service transformation, public technology education, social media and other innovative channels of communication, social interaction design, user experience and usability, user experience design, user involvement, web, web accessibility, web development
Email : temiodear@hotmail.com
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Interests : Social Firms, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social innovation
Email : steve.dann@york.gov.uk
Organization : City of York Council
Role : innovation Officer
Interests : Innovation
Email : shrirangps@yahoo.com
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Interests : accessibility, innovation for inclusion
Organization : KAGIDER Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey
Role : MBA Intern
Interests : biomimicry, collaboration, complexity, design-thinking, empowerment, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, start ups, sustainability, transparency, project incubation, catalytic social change, cross country running, the great outdoors, laughing, languages, art history, yoga
There are a number of digital/social innovation spaces and networks in the field: Simpl, dotgovlabs, the emerging knowledge hub, SocialbySocial, with overlapping memberships and ideas. Why not get together face to face, as Sandie has suggested? A first step could be some network mapping.
David - 01/11/2011