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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
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Interests : adaptive technology, affordable homeownership for low income households, aikido, web 2.0, subscription, telecare, academics, actionability
Organization : IRISS (Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services)
Role : Developer
Interests : social work, innovation, change, web 2.0, technology
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Organization : Boston City Hall
Role : Co-Chair, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Interests : work, 21stcc, access city, accessibility, action, adaptive technology, affordable homeownership for low income households, ageing well, agencies, and social change, a new govxo-driven republic!, anthropological studies, anthropology, apis, arts education, arts, app store, apps, assistive equipment, assistive technology, authentic collaboration and uncommon sense, autism, big society, change, channel development, children, cities, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, city space, civic engagement, co-design, co-creation, collaboration, co-working, co-production, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, web development, web design, web 2.0, visual thinking, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, user experience design, 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, tech, technology, startups, start ups, startup consulting
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
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Interests : change, channel development, cities, citizen engagement, citizen journalism, co-creation, co-design, collaboration, collaborative governance, council, crowdsourcing, crisismapping, datasets, democracy, ebooks, gov20, innovation, local government, nudge, open data, open government, open innovation, open source, public engagement, public participation, public sector innovation, public service, reading, scotland, service improvement, social innovation, social media, social networks, social reporting, transport open data, web 2.0, web development
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Interests : environment, sustainability, consumption, energy, ecology, web 2.0, social practices
Email : info@littlefishmediacompany.com
Organization : Little Fish Media Company Ltd
Role : Founder
Interests : social change, community engagement, collaboration, community engagement; design; youth leadership; personal development; sustainability, community managed libraries, community organisation, digital inclusion: esp. middle-aged upwards, digital inclusion, e-learning, ebooks, elearning, empowerment, big society, engagement, enterprise, entrepreneurship, event facilitation, google docs, google, gettogethers, getting fit, grassroots projects to empower communities, harnessing public sector skills for community improvement, health and wellbeing, helping people into work, hyper local content, hyper local resources, iphone, ipad, local economic development, local economies, live streaming, local government, local government communities, london 2012, marketing solutions, mobile, participation, philanthropy, philosophy, public and voluntary and community sectors, self education, socal care, social business, social audio and online media, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social inclusion, social innovation, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, social ventures, startup consulting, sustainability, third sector, training, young people, yoga and the arts of creating peace through personal well being., web development, web accessibility, web 2.0, walking, local business
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 : LexisNexis
Role : User Experience Design
Interests : innovation, design thinking, social media, user experience design, knowledge management, innovation platforms, open government, civic engagement, collaboration, collaborative governance, crowdsourcing, edemocracy, game-changing, gov20, localgov, local government, open innovation, storytelling, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, visual thinking, web 2.0, web20