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ashley - 05/30/2011
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
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
Organization : Qykno
Role : Co-Founder
Interests : education, innovation, social enterprise, social innovation, social networks, social venture, start ups, storytelling, strategy, web design, web development, young people, user experience and usability
Email : jworona@sfpl.org
Organization : San Francisco Public Library
Role : Digital Initiatives Manager
Interests : Digitization, Discovery, Mobile, Live Streaming, Online Learning, Accessibility, Language Support, User Experience and Usability, Social Media, Public Technology Education, Public Access Computing, Text Message Services, eBooks, eMedia
Email : tech4health@gmail.com
Organization : tech4health
Role : Director and Occupational Therapist
Interests : access to the web as a publishing arena for elder, adaptive technology, adoption of innovations, ageing well, ageing, allotments, agile, applications, apps, aspirations, befriending, change agents, citizen engagement, civic empowerment and deliberative democracy, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, coaching, collaborative, collective intelligence, commons, connecting people, connectivity, coproduction, creating shared value, digital, digital inclusion: esp. middle-aged upwards, digital innovation, digital literacy, digital technology, disruption, educational technology, elder, entepreneur, ethical business practice, game-changing, grassroots projects to empower communities, hackday, hackspace, hack, hackathon, harnessing public sector skills for community improvement, health, healthcare, health and wellbeing, inclusion accessibility, inclusive design, innovation - through the use of technology., innovation and team work, innovation for inclusion, innovative social applications, interface design for older people - inclusive design, job creation, lean, mentoring, mobile working, networking for grandparents, older people, older adults, participation, participative design., participatory decision making, peer2peer, professional, public and third sector innovation, public sector innovation, risk analysis, service delivery, service delivery online, service design, service redesign, service improvement, social business, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social inclusion, social media, social networking, social return on investment, startup, startups, strategy, telecare, text message services, usability, user experience and usability, user involvement, volunteering, web accessibility, web 2.0, wellbeing, crochet, MOOC, Massive Open Online Course, distributed, networked, virtual learning environment, distributed networked virtual learning environment
Organization : LB Redbridge
Role :
Interests : adaptive methods, access to the web as a publishing arena for elder, apps, application integration, authentic collaboration and uncommon sense, catalytic social change, channel development, citizenship, citizen engagement/voice, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative decision making, collaborative technologies, collaborative governance, collective intelligence, computers, council, content management, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, culture change, current affairs, democracy, design thinking and project management, digital campaigning, digital inclusion, digital innovation, edemocracy, emedia, government access, hackspace, hyper local content, inclusion accessibility, information architecture, information technology, innovation, internet solutions, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, networking, new technology, opendata, online consultations, opengov, pubic policy, public engagement, public participation, public sector improvement, public sector innovation, race online, social innovation, social media., social networking, social policy, software development, user experience and usability, user experience design, volunteering, web20, web design, web accessibility, web development
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Organization : Hull City Council
Role : Stakeholder Engagement (Building Schools for the Future)
Interests : access city, civic engagement, citizen engagement/voice, co-creation, co-design, co-production, collaboration, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, collaborative, communities, community development, community mapping, community management / ownership, community development trusts, crowdsourcing, design for all, democracy, digital inclusion, disruption, doing more with less, drupal, e-participation, economic development, edemocracy, film, government, google docs, heritage/history, high/low/sub/all culture, homelessness, hyper local resources, innovation problem solving, innovation, innovators, international development, local government, localgov, mapping, mobile, museums, new technology, open data, open government, open innovation, open source, organically grown public services, our society, participative design., participation, philanthropy, public engagement, public administration improvement, public participation, public policy, public sector, public sector innovation, public service, public spending data, public spaces, real world and online engagement, refugees, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social innovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social media, social networking, social networks, social practices, user experience and usability, user involvement, usability, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, travel, transport open data, transformation, truth, third sector, volunteering, volunteerism, web 2.0, web design, web development
Organization : Leicestershire County Council
Role : Website Development Officer
Interests : arts, collaborative technologies, communities, cultural industries, culture, e-participation, drupal, digital inclusion, doing more with less, libraries, learning, online learning, open source, open data, public libraries, public sector, public sector innovation, socialbysocial, social media, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, startup, technology, user experience and usability, web 2.0, web accessibility, web design, web development, wedidthis, Museums