European Social Innovation Competition - Industrial innovation - Enterprise and Industry. The Second European Social Innovation Competition is closed since 11 December 2013.
Take a look at the best ideas selected. The Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, invites Europeans to come up with new solutions to reduce unemployment and minimize its corrosive effects on the economy and our society both now and in the future. Social innovation is not only desirable, it is necessary. News & Video: The Innovation Debate 2012. Networking by numbers. RSA Connected Communities has started a new project with Nathan of the MIT Center for Civic Media to create a new, cost-effective way to measure the social impact of public services and civic interventions and to allow people to see their own personal networks.
We’re designing a mobile and tablet app for recording real-life social networks: your friends, families and contacts. The open source software we build will also be useful to journalists, ethnographers and anyone trying to make sense of rapidly changing social phenomena.
HBR. Cisco British Innovation Gateway. SkillsBank. Through SkillsBank Loic Menzies FRSA helped students to write and publish their own books: "[My] knowledge of schools and education meant that I had a very useful bank of knowledge to draw on when supporting him.
I hope to do a lot more of that.” Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government. 12 predictions for 2012 - NESTA. Intel to turn London into smart cities playground - 24 May 2012.