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Introducing Casserole

Knives and forks at the ready? Good because we want to introduce you to Casserole, a community project that connects people – one good shared meal at a time. The project is being developed and piloted with Future Surrey and has just won a contract with the TSB and Design Council on their joint Independence Matters programme. It’s been a busy [...]

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Simpl opens for ideas

It’s a big day at FutureGov, as we mark the launch of Simpl, the social innovation marketplace. The result of hard work, experimenting and support, we especially need to thank our partners at Rock Creek, as well as our crack team of beta users who have given us their marvellous ideas, offers and opinions. Feedback collected and [...]

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Go London: what happened next

Way back in (a much warmer!) May, you may remember the Go London finals took place in City Hall. After NHS London sent out an open call for bright ideas to make London a more active City, we invited designers, developers and other people good with bringing ideas to life to work with the Go London [...]

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Like fine wine… Age Unlimited

Nesta’s Age Unlimited programme is looking to generate innovative new public services for people in their fifties. As part of the programme they recently had an event on ‘Seniors Cohousing’, which is an innovation in housing for older people. I went along and have to say I haven’t felt that inspired for a while…

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Using web 2.0 to safeguard children: an invitation to a round table discussion

Sat watching the case of Baby Peter unfold on the television last year, as with the vast majority of you I’m sure, I was left feeling hugely saddened, frustrated and powerless to help prevent such events from ever happening again. I am not a social worker nor do I work for any one of the numerous agencies involved in the extremely complex and challenging world of child protection. However, it did get me thinking about where I might be able to provide some support, specifically around how we might be able to draw on social technologies to contribute to safeguarding children.

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The Killer Question

We’re currently looking at the role of social media in recruitment – not only using the web to recruit, but also what we should expect candidates for public sector leadership roles to know about the world as a place where people are online and networked. There are plenty who claim to know about the web [...]

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And the winner isn’t…

Right. Sorry to be awkward everyone, but here’s the thing: we had a load of entries to the big FutureGov competition and as the newbie around here I was tasked with making one person’s lucky day and announcing them the winner right here. But the winner I lovingly selected couldn’t make the date of the Politics Online conference and no other entries grabbed me in the same ingenious way.