Following Carrie’s post on “Five lessons in crowdfunding innovation”, we wanted to share a crowdfunding campaign that is illustrating many of the lessons contained in the post, as well as being close to home. Very close to home in fact, as the campaign is being run by Shoreditch Works, where FutureGov’s offices are based. Shoreditch [...]
This is a guest post from Hannah Nicklin, Research Associate at Hide&Seek. There is a revolution happening in local government and in health and social care. You might not have noticed yet, because it’s one of the quiet kinds, one of the kinds of revolution that makes useful, reactive change that works. For the most part, and [...]
Nesta tweeted about its crowdfunding directory yesterday. Crowdfunding, where members of the public can donate money to make bright ideas happen, has been around for a while and over time a bunch of specific sites have emerged, the most well-known of which is Kickstarter. Nesta’s site is an umbrella of umbrellas – a directory to all [...]
Over 50 local residents, council officers and people from local organisations and businesses joined us in Camden City Learning Centre last Thursday to learn “How to be a Changemaker.” The event was held to mark the launch of the Camden Challenge, an open innovation competition, being run on Simpl Challenges, by Camden Council and FutureGov. There are [...]
We’re into transparency here at FutureGov, cajoling local public services to be as open as possible with what they’re up to and where their residents’ money is going. But that has to include those of us inventing new kinds of local public services, meaning FutureGov has to walk our talk and be as open with [...]
Today is Food Revolution Day, a global day of action for people to make a stand for good food and essential cooking skills. It’s a chance for people to come together within their homes, schools, workplaces and communities to cook and share their kitchen skills, food knowledge and resources. Jamie Oliver, who’s Better Food Foundation is behind [...]
Our food sharing project Casserole Club is looking for a Community Engagement Intern to help promote and support our work in Tower Hamlets and Barnet. Casserole Club is a community food-sharing initiative encouraging people to” do something great with an extra plate”. The project connects enthusiastic Cooks who don’t mind making an extra portion of dinner [...]
The team over at Shift Surrey have been blogging about their Election Dashboard, which was developed in-house using an “agile” process (more on that process in the post). In a Q&A with the development team - Chris Spring, Sue Shoesmith and Drew Daruval – the post looks at the background to the project, what the design process was and what [...]
It’s T-20 days until the food-sharing highlight of the year. On 2nd June, it’s World Food Sharing Day AND The Big Lunch. A foodie serendipity. To make the countdown even more exciting, and mark the launch of our new Casserole Club, we’ve set a challenge for the good people of Tower Hamlets. In the next 20 days, can [...]
The Camden Challenge has launched today and is now open for entries! Following Camden Council’s Data Hack Day that took place on Friday, with Google and the Big Innovation Centre, Camden have teamed up with FutureGov to ask people to come up with great ideas in response two important questions: – “What can we do [...]