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Blastbeat in a Box creates and gameifies the existing Blastbeat programme and develops an online tool kit, built around the Blastbeat programme. Blastbeat wraps the learning experience in music, dance or sport, that leverages young peoples interests and passions to engage NEETs back in the learning process and enhances their positive learning experience teaching business and life skills in a very compelling way. Blastbeat in a Box helps to empower young people to be event creators and social entrepreneurs, programming and selling out live events and creating performance opportunities for other young people that are intense yet cool and FUN. Blastbeat has a programme and an expertise that has proven very successful at engaging these young people, NEET's in particular will benefit young people NEET
Robert - 01/24/2012
When implemented, this will revolutionize the collective growth of students all across the globe. Learning should be interactive, different and entertaining. "IIBIT!" seeks to break cultural diversity and school curriculum rigidity in order to create a fresh approach to educational development.
Andy - 12/15/2011
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
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
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
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
Could you make the lives of people affected by dementia better? Would you like a share of £360,000 to do so?
Amanda - 08/26/2011
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 : Open Spectrum Studios
Role : Web designer/developer
Interests : rethinking education, social/enviro justice, creative tech, web design/dev, grassroots political 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
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 : sam.bamkin@gmail.com
Organization : De Montfort University
Role : Lecturer; Thinker
Interests : Development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Langauge, Social progress, RSA
Organization : Make Something Happen
Role : Founder
Interests : social entrepreneurship, design-thinking, citizen journalism, Africa, anthropology, education
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Role :
Interests : citizen engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, collaborative technologies, community assets / transfer, community mapping, connecting social innovators with great resources, creativity, crowdsourcing, dementia, design-thinking, design thinking, design thinking and project management, digital innovation
Organization : UNICEF Uk
Role :
Interests : intercultural communication, intercultural communication, co-creation, co-production, social design and thinking, service design
Email : panthea@thereboot.org
Organization : Reboot
Role : Creative Director
Interests : accessibility, citizen engagement/voice, civic engagement, co-design, collaboration, gov20, inclusion, open government, open source, participation, public engagement, public participation, rural, service design, strategy, technology, visual thinking, design
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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