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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
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 : shrirangps@yahoo.com
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Interests : accessibility, innovation for inclusion
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 : 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 : RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
Role : Research Associate
Interests : access to the web as a publishing arena for elder, access to the web as a publishing arena for elder activists, activist, activism, adult social care, ageing, ageing well, and ice cream, citizen engagement, cities, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, civic engagement, city space, citizenship, civic entrepreneurship, co-creation, co-design, co-production, coffee and conversation, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative consumption, communities, community activism, community assets / transfer, community blogging, community engagement, community media, community mapping, coproduction, councils, creative councils, data, datasets, design, design council, design-thinking, design for all, design thinking, digital inclusion, hyperlocal blogs, hyper local content, hyper local resources, inclusion, inclusion accessibility, inclusive design, independent living, infographics, innovation for inclusion, innovation platforms, innovative social applications, interactivism, interface design for older people - inclusive design, localism, mapping, media, older adults, older people, old people, older people services, open data, opendata, open space, our society, participative design., pop up shops, public engagement, service design, social collaboration, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social inclusion, social innovation, urban co-production, urban planning
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