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iCan is website that connects people who need something done with safe, reliable young people who can make it happen.
Scott - 01/10/2012
The annual UK Children's Fine Art Competition is open to all children aged from 4 - 16 years of age. Endorsed by The Department for Education, it is an exciting, highly rewarding and all inclusive opportunity which aims to raise the aspirations of children and endow children with the best of values and principles. But it also provides significant cross-curricular learning opportunities in History, Geography, Citizenship, Religious Studies and several other subjects
Alan - 11/18/2011
A Big Society Community-based Social Care Concept which can rethink the Meals on Wheels service.
Murtaza - 07/06/2011
What if we could give people who are very good at telling stories and communicating through visuals an understanding of how they could better work with public services & civil society and give policy makers new perspectives on how they present their policies and issues they cover and make them more engaging to the public?
Noel - 04/12/2011
There is the chance to collaboratively & creatively rethink how Library services are delivered to meet the needs of local communities.
Chris - 04/06/2011
TILT designs inspiring and enabling spaces through the end users, actively involving them in all stages of the process, from the initial design to the actual making of the space. TILT believes that spaces both public and private need to better reflect the needs of their users and this can be achieved through effective collaborative design.
Dermot - 03/29/2011
The Good Gym finds meaningful ways for people to exercise, like visiting older people in their homes or helping to clear a room in a community centre.
Mark - 03/16/2011
Reinventing lifelong learning by helping local authorities create local face-to-face peer learning groups.
Paul - 01/06/2011
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
Email : yasmin@byoconsulting.com
Organization : byo consulting
Role : partner
Interests : government, technology, arts, education, arts education, public policy
Organization : Open Forum Foundation
Role : Executive Director
Interests : citizen engagement, technology, public participation, Congress, agencies, social media, collaboration, participation, culture change, event facilitation
Email : info@gotocommonground.com
Organization : commonground
Role : co-founder
Interests : service design, public service provision, transformation design, public consultation, codesign, coproduction
Organization : NESTA
Role :
Interests : Good ideas, sustainability, public service transformation, prizes
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Interests : social media, social innovation, e-participation, open government, urban planning, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, public participation, apps, arts
Email : vanessa.walker@involveinit.org
Organization : NetworkIdea
Role : Chief Executive
Interests : Harnessing public sector skills for community improvement
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
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Interests : social change, activism, pubic policy, public engagement, public administration improvement, Advocacy
Email : sarah.wixey@jmp.co.uk
Organization : JMP
Role : Associate
Interests : Social inclusion, accessibility, sustainable travel, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, equity and social justice., ageing well, anthropology, apps, book sharing, changing the way we grow and manufacture our food., cities, citizen engagement, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, collaborative decision making, community, community engagement, community mapping, connecting social innovators with great resources, creativity, cycling, deaf, design for all, disability, disabled people, entrepreneurship, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, health and wellbeing, inclusion, local food systems, local government, mental health, mapping, migrants, networking, older people, poverty, psychology, pubic policy, public engagement, public sector innovation, regeneration, schools, social entrepreneurs, social innovation and innovative policy making, sustainability, third sector, travel, urban planning, urban spaces, web 2.0, young people