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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
Sustainaville is a seriously fun game where players are empowered to play themselves to a sustainable future. Sustainaville aims to make it as FUN to "save" the world in real life, as it is "saving" the world in online gaming. With the increasing number of gamers all around the world; games have become the number one medium to influence youth. Our innovative modes of play have been specifically designed to capture a wide audience of gamers. The modes of play are PLAY.REDESIGN.ACT.
Neo - 01/09/2012
My idea is for there to be a climatenet run on similar lines to mumsnet and gransnet for discussion about how to address or combat climate change. Currently Idea of the Week - click on blog (RH corner of home page)
Maureen - 06/08/2011
The Future I Choose is a project brought to you by radical think tank: Think Act Vote (?!X) that brings together citizenship, sustainability, digital, creativity and culture. A space online where how you dream the world and how you see it come together. A place where all people can share inspiration and be inspired.
Amisha - 05/01/2011
Organization : NESTA
Role :
Interests : Good ideas, sustainability, public service transformation, prizes
Email : hello@ecomodo.com
Organization : Ecomodo.com
Role : co-founder
Interests : collaborative consumption, design, problem solving, collaborative technologies, design-thinking, digital inclusion, environment, fundraising, green technology, grassroots projects to empower communities, hyper local resources, innovation platforms, microfinance, networking, new economics, people, re-use, service design, sharing, share economy, sharepoint, social change, social enterprise, sustainability, user experience design, community engagement
Organization : KAGIDER Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey
Role : MBA Intern
Interests : biomimicry, collaboration, complexity, design-thinking, empowerment, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, start ups, sustainability, transparency, project incubation, catalytic social change, cross country running, the great outdoors, laughing, languages, art history, yoga
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
Organization : Enspiral
Role : Connector
Interests : action, activism, apps, asset transfer, change, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-working, collaboration, collaborative consumption, communication, communities, communities of practice, communications, community development, community engagement, culture, design, design thinking, Conscious Consumers, disruption, digital, e-learning, bio-mimicry, energy, enterprise, entrepreneurship, enviroment, filmmaking, graphic design, infographics, innovation, innovators, inspiration, internet solutions, local, local food systems, open innovation, open enterprise, organic, participative design., community sector, emancipation, regeneration, service delivery, social, social business, social change, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social gaming, social innovation, social media, social venture, sustainability, technology, tech, transition towns, transformation, user experience design, volunteering, web design, web development, youth
Email : russell@preselipartnerships.com
Organization : Preseli
Role : Director
Interests : collaboration, coaching, community development, complex and multiple needs, entrepreneurship, ethical business practice, health and wellbeing, mentoring, open source, open space, participatory decision making, problem solving, realising potential, social innvoation, solution focused, startups, sustainability, strategy, usability, Making a difference, new ideas, social entrepreneurship
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
Organization : Self-employed
Role : Designer of Food and Services
Interests : Food, Sustainability, ethics and behavioural change, collaborative consumption
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