SupportingPipes visited Perth last week, although this time Snook were stranded in snowy Glasgow peering into the workshop via Skype. So with a sprinkle of improvisation and last minute planning the Aliss Team led the way. They were joined by Gillian Easson from Nesta’s Age Unlimited Scotland Programme.
It has been a little while since we’ve given you an update on our work with Aliss project, so here’s what happened at the second of the Supporting Pipes workshop a couple of weeks ago in Edinburgh. 20 people made the trip down the event, making up five groups of one facilitator, a service provider, a carer and a person(s) with a long term condition(s). Oh and we were joined by another member of the FutureGov family, Carrie Bishop.
FutureGov is working with colleagues Stephen Goldsmith and Zach Tumin at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government to research the “now wave” and the “next wave” of service delivery around the world. We’d like your help. In the coming weeks, leaders of these efforts from five nations – Australia, the UK, the United States, New Zealand and Canada will be gathering in roundtable at Harvard to share current best practices and understand the prospects for the next wave of service reform. And we’d like to share your examples and thinking with them…
Tomorrow sees the Supporting Pipes team lead the second of three workshops, this time in Edinburgh, as part of the Scottish Government’s ALISS ( Access to Local Information to Support Self Management ) project. The project is working closely with users to design (and off) line solutions to help people with long term conditions find local support and services. Before that though, Lauren Currie reflects on learning from the first event last Thursdy in Glasgow.
Now and again we like spread the word about projects we hear about that are looking to do something different. This week, we thought we’d let you know about a Social Innovation Camp project, Jailbrake. Katee Hui explains more…
Today we’re excited to announce the launch of the Go London Social Innovation Competition, led by NHS London in partnership with the Greater London Authority and Transport for London. The Go London Social Innovation Competition is a call for ideas to get Londoners more physically active. Great ideas can come from anywhere and we’re after either existing or entirely new and innovative bright sparks.
We seem to be in a run of telling you about new projects we’re involved in at the moment. This time round, we’re partnering with our associates Snook to work with the Scottish Government on their groundbreaking ALISS project. Here our project lead, Lauren Currie, tells more…
Congratulations! Congratulations to the team behind this huge undertaking. I apologise for not being clear enough about this up front.
Today we’re really pleased to announce the launch of the next stage of the Safeguarding 2.0 initiative. Back in August last year we hosted a round table discussion in partnership with the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) to talk about how we might use social web technologies to better safeguard children - and today we can announce that we have received initial funding from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to carry out the research phase of the project.
Talking over matters of urban design, city governance and the social web with Mark Charmer, Lorenzo Wood and Joe Simpson at lunch yesterday (as you do), I stumbled on a way of describing what we are seeing around us and what I expect we will se far more of in the coming decade, what I called the move from the privitasation of public space to the re-socialisation of public space.
