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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
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
Organization : feelancer
Role : listener/learner/facilitator
Interests : appreciative inquiry, apps, asset map, careers training and education, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, citizenship, city space, civic empowerment and deliberative democracy, co-creation, co-design, co-learining, co-working, coaching, collaboration, commons, communities of practice, community development, community mapping, community media, complexity, contemporary art and culture, counselling, creating, data visualisation, design-thinking, development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), dancing, education, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, hackspace, healing arts, interaction design, lifelong learning, life skills, life development, local, mapping, mental health, micro-volunteering, micro enterprise, motivation, neighbourhood, new forms and styles of work, open government, organisational behaviour, participative design., performing arts, personal development, pop up shops, prototyping, service design, social algorithms, social enterprises, social innovation camp, social work, sustainable social innovation and design research. specialising in consumer behaviours online and providing new collaborative environments for both corporations and consumers. following the belief that the more complex the world becomes the more creative we need to be and that for a sustainable future and business environment what is required is the ability to be creative, temporary accommodation, town centres, transparency, visualisation, volunteerism, wellbeing
Organization : Ravensbourne
Role : Student
Interests : design thinking, prototyping, programming, internet solutions, interactive design, interaction design
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 :
Role : Interaction Designer/Student
Interests : Interaction Design, User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Visualisation, Information Architecture, Illustration
Email : ann.danylkiw@gmail.com
Organization : annlytical media
Role : information mediator, interactive digital storyteller, tummler
Interests : adaptive technology, interactive documentary, social interaction design, social media, change agency, green technology, innovation, creation, collaboration, human connection, UeX, information architecture, share economy, new economics, documentary, future of news, journalism, education, app, applications, artificial intelligence, application integration, social algorithms, socent, social cohesion and virtual learning, social collaboration, social video, space design, start-ups, startup
Organization :
Role : Student
Interests : Technology, Games , Music , Reading , Internet, user interaction, business, carbon footprint, computing, computers, creation, designer