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An activity portfolio tool enabling the measurement, visualisation and analysis of an individual’s transferable knowledge and skills.
Neil - 01/25/2012
This idea links students with real world businesses to support their learning and eventually leads to valuable workplace connections.
tim - 12/22/2011
Reinventing lifelong learning by helping local authorities create local face-to-face peer learning groups.
Paul - 01/06/2011
Email : paul@schoolofeverything.com
Organization : School of Everything
Role : CEO
Interests : education, lifelong learning, community
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 : 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 : What's On Cupar
Role : Founder
Interests : Community management / ownership, civic engagement, and social change, co-production, collaboration, community assets / transfer, community profit, community solutions, doing more with less, environment, government, ideas, innovation problem solving, inclusion, lifelong learning, local economies, public engagement, pubic policy, public participation, public spaces, public value, scotland, socialinnovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation
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
Organization : Castlehaven
Role : Director
Interests : ageing well, children, children services, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, co-design, co-production, collaboration, community assets / transfer, community development trusts, creative industries, digital inclusion, emedia, entertainment and community events, entrepreneurship, fundraising, gardens, health and wellbeing, helping people into work, information technology, kids, knowledge management, lifelong learning, literacy, local economies, localgov, local government, mental health, music, new forms and styles of work, new technology, older adults, older people, older people services, our scoiety, photography, poverty, public sector, public sector innovation, regeneration, service improvement, social enterprise, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, socialinnovation, social reporting, startup, startup consulting, startups, start ups, strategy, tech, technology, theatre, volunteering, volunteerism, web design, web development, young people, youth
Organization : Great Lakes Protection Fund
Role : Vice President, Programs
Interests : design thinking and project management, ecology, innovation, innovators, lifelong learning, open data, social venture, environment, disruption, finance, catalytic change, transformation, game-changing