Google’s second Interactivism event was held in London on 17th and 18th February 2012. Google and FutureGov joined forces with the RSA and Livity to deliver Interactivism: Young People’s Hack Weekend. This time, teams were challenged to come up with innovative ways of using the web to help young people get into the job they want, or onto the training or education that will help them get there in the future.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, for us, a hack is an event where computer developers, designers and people with ideas come together to build real, working prototypes (or models) of their ideas in a short amount of time.
Before the hack weekend, the RSA hosted a roundtable discussion with young people and policy influencers to help frame the challenge. This informed a framework document that you can read here. Ideas were submitted here on Simpl and a short list of 10 ideas (click here to see which ten) were selected to be developed during the two day event. The event was held in Ravensbourne, a digital media and design university sector college, and the teams consisted of people with ideas, student developers, Googlers, young people with experience of being out of work and education, designers and social innovators (you can see the full list on the Eventbrite page here.) All of our teams produced some excellent prototypes during the two days and two winning ideas were selected. If you would like to help any of our teams develop their ideas further, please get in touch through the Simpl ideas page.
Details of the first Interactivism event: Interactivism - Accessibility Hack Weekend, where participants were challenged to make the web more accesible for older people, can be found here.
You can read all of the reports from Interactivism on the Simpl blog and can keen up to date with any future Interactivism events by following us on Twitter @Simplco.
All information collected for the Interactivism competition will be held by FutureGov, Google and RSA only. All ideas submitted for the competition remain the sole property of the idea originator unless otherwise stated by the idea originator. Idea originators must be prepared to work with Google should their idea be chosen to be given further support following the Interactivism event.
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1SKILLED This idea aims to highlight the skills that young people possess to increase their confidence and to address the myth that young people don’t have the skills needed in the workplace.
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0Human Nature Consumerism Solutions. We live in a capitalist economy. People have only 1 life and there are limited resources. WE employ government to protect the former, but we have not found a solution for the ladder's distribution. Human nature is good. Perhaps we need to stop giving people from disadvantaged environments the burden of upward mobility and change the market so that the invisible hand is a helpful hand-Corny. But, if we can employ consumers with an app- of human rights and environmental reports on companies, consumers will use human nature to buy products that they view as the best for the environment and humanity. So here we begin- pass the word.
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0Learn & display literacy project Good literacy development from an early age is an important asset in every child’s life. Reading serves as the major foundational skill for all school-based learning – it is a multifaceted process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.
Our idea is a collaborative venture created to provide a new perspective, build on knowledge and develop important life skills. “Learn & display literacy project” can materialise by uniting children, young people, parents, cultural leaders and museums in Tower Hamlets, London. Participants develop a cultural storybook outside of school in order to increase literacy rates, community engagement and parental involvement in children’s reading development.
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0NEET - "platform for experience and development" Edinburgh Council has launched a Guarantee - no school leaver should leave without education, employment or training. This fits with the NEET Interactivism competition. We need a platform where people can come together with organisations to exchange information, to enable successful outcomes e.g. work, volunteering, studying
24Likely2Like An online platform that levels the playing field for both young talent looking to launch their careers and employers looking to attract the most relevant talent.
Young people leaving school and university are given access to the best information from the people that really know what they are talking about, as well as career opportunities at companies beyond the famous household names.
The employers are able to showcase their employer brand to groups of diverse and relevant young talent they would not otherwise be able to reach.
1National Enthusiasm Week (NEW) Young people face uncertain times.
With the economic storm set to continue we need to rethink what a career means to us and more importantly how we achieve it.
Nearly all of us want to find a career we will love and we don't want to sit down and talk all day about it we want to do!
We need a NEW Start. We need National Enthusiasm Week (NEW) launching October 2012.
1"One click" job applications Take the pain out of applying for jobs, free up time for volunteering and upskilling, and find employers the best recruits
2IIBIT! : "The Facebook of Education and the Twitter of Constructive Criticism" 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.
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