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Lack of interest and motivation or/and lack of knowledge of how to achieve desired goals, are some of the most important reasons for unemployment and illiteracy. A personal tutor and motivator is exactly what young people need in such situations; to help them fix things up and get back to the track. Young people require personal tutors who are ready wherever they are, whenever they need some help.
mahmoud - 01/22/2012
Software designed for teaching and learning on the web. Free education and qualification for anyone with the Internet.
Michael - 01/22/2012
NOISE Passion Finder is a free online aggregator of existing social platforms, presented with a mix of bespoke input from insiders, celebs and those in the know; to curate and create tailored, purely relevant content to answer the unique, specific needs and requests of each young user. All in one central place. Created by the award-winning national charity NOISEfestival.com
Victoria - 01/21/2012
Using Facebook to help young people break down their dreams into everyday manageable steps
Lee - 01/12/2012
We are inspired by the power of using real-life entrepreneurship as a learning tool. Meet Market is a platform and support network for young people not in education, employment, or training to take a hands-on approach to professional (and social) development through entrepreneurship. It provides an online and offline platform, giving young people the tools and support to launch micro-enterprises within the familiar context of street markets. Markets provide an unique opportunity to develop a wide range of skills, with exposure to procurement, profit margins, time management, relationships and marketing within a low-risk environment. Meet Market will help NEETs to explore this by providing micro-finance and support, enabling participants to essentially manage their own business as a learning process rather than purely an enterprise.
Tom - 01/12/2012
Training, mentoring and facilitated learning to leverage the benefits of social media and social networking for professional development.
Stephen - 11/11/2011
Minutebox is a social way to trade buy and sell expertise. We are driven by our vision to make human expertise accessible and affordable, and we aim to be the best facilitator of real-time knowledge sharing. Individuals are able to use MinuteBox as a gateway to access expertise in a timely and cost-effective manner, while experts can monetise their expertise online in small units of time.
Josh - 06/21/2011
You have to have a reason to want to be online if there are barriers like mouse use or having never typed to getting online. And once you've learnt the skills, they're no use if you have no reason to come back & use them. So what do the older gen want to do & how can we help remind them how to get to the sites they want to visit?
louise - 05/25/2011
Older people starting out on the internet often have no idea where to click next. This idea would involve the use of anonymous metrics from others' browsing histories in order to help guide the user through the site.
Peter Faraday - 05/20/2011
Remove the pain of creating a legal entity for your organisation, and benefit from a democratic decision-making platform that you can run your entire organisation on.
One Click Orgs - 03/24/2011
Is the data we need for new and useful mobile apps currently available, or do we need to lobby the appropriate organisations to make this data available?
Stephen - 11/11/2011
We need a space to communicate, collaborate and share knowledge on best practice and ideas for visualisation tools and techniques.
Stephen - 11/11/2011
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 : tim@intellitics.com
Organization : Intellitics, Inc.
Role : Founder and CEO
Interests : public participation, online consultations, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, participatory budgeting, ncdd, iap2, iap2 usa, public engagement, crowdsourcing, edemocracy, education, gov20, open government, social media
Organization : Southampton City Council
Role : Communities Support Officer
Interests : Online information
Organization : Chinwag
Role : Founder
Interests : Social, Events, Data, Learning, Export, Online Community
Email : rgsmedley@gmail.com
Organization : Cuprium
Role : Making it happen
Interests : openmoney, freesoftware, permaculture, hackspace, accessibility, affordable homeownership for low income households, aikido, biodiversity, collaboration, digital divide, digital inclusion, drupal, gardens, microfinance, philosophy, programming, project management, public service transformation, public spending data, race online, re-use, regeneration, regional economies, local economies, local food systems, renewable energy, rural, social enterprise, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, software development, sustainability, sustainable travel, transition towns, urban spaces, allotments, urbangardening
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
Email : neil@herdcomms.com
Organization : Herd
Role : Director
Interests : digital technology, drupal, social innovation, online video, collaboration, islington, camden, kings cross
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
Email : Lucy.peck@futuresnn.co.uk
Organization : Futures Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Role : Passportfolio Coordinator
Interests : Online careers guidance and helping young people into jobs and education