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Public Services by Design is a mentoring service for public service providers who want to develop and deliver more effective, efficient, and customer focussed services. The Design Council has now extended the opportunity to apply for match funding to include applications received before the end of January. If you are interested in applying and would like some further information, please contact the Programme Manager, Pauline Shakespeare, directly on 020 7420 5275 or or go to www.designcouncil.org.uk/publicsector. Applications must be received by the end of January 2012.
Pauline - 01/19/2012
Creative Councils is a new programme from NESTA, working with the Local Government Group, to support local authorities to develop and implement radical innovations that meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Lauren - 04/14/2011
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
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
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 : 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
Organization : NWEGG and Tameside Council
Role : Partnership Director
Interests : Innovation, adoption of innovations, service redesign, mobile, project and programme mgmt, technology, change, transformation
Email : mark.smitham@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Organization : Home Office
Role : Project Manager
Interests : Project Management, IT, modern languages, digital innovation, languages, local government, networking, open data, public sector improvement, public sector innovation, public service transformation, social enterprise, social media, technology, theatre, transparency, volunteering, web, web 2.0, web design, web development, youtube, yoga
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
Email : jon.king@shropshire.gov.uk
Organization : Shropshire Council
Role : Innovation & Digital Media Officer
Interests : Innovation, Transformation, Social Media, Social Gaming, Consultation
Organization :
Role :
Interests : Arts, city space, digital tech, sound-based work, visual thinking, urban spaces, transformation, storytelling, politics, new technology