The Innovation in Giving Fund is backing a series of projects using technological platforms to make it easier to give time and money. Quite a few are supporting new kinds of exchange, including time banks and complementary currencies.
We've announced the first 15 organisations to be funded through the Innovation in Giving Fund.
Are we doomed to live in a world we can't understand? Before the modern era most people took it for granted that they were surrounded by the mysterious and capricious forces of fate and destiny. Then the enlightenment promised that we could understand our world, and for a time even things like electric lights and telephones were roughly within the cognitive grasp of the majority.
I'm very pleased to share a new publication with you today which has been created to showcase what we're learning through working with the 17 Neighbourhood Challenge projects.
We've been working over the last few months on a new programme to support effective uses of digital technology in schools. It's partly an offshoot of the Next Gen. work on games and IT, but also a response to the evidence that many new opportunities are opening up thanks to the ubiquity of technologies like smart phones.
Statistics on the UK's creative industries released by DCMS in December have provoked negative reactions. The creative industries account for only 2.9% of Gross Value Added (GVA), far lower than previous estimates have suggested, following the removal of two 'standard industrial codes' from the definition of the Software sector and a 'scaling adjustment' that the DCMS used to apply to the estimate of whole economy GVA.
I appeared recently in front of the Public Administration Select Committee, chaired by Bernard Jenkin. PASC has long been one of the most thoughtful parliamentary committees and is now continuing its inquiry into strategy, and asking some good, probing questions about government's ability to handle the long-term.
It's now two years since we first came to NESTA with our working carers network idea. Building on the services that we provide through the Employers for Carers forum, we were looking to develop a model with the London Fire Brigade for an employee carers network which could be tailored and rolled out to other employers in the future.
At a recent NESTA event, Matt Jones described Microsoft's X-box Kinect product as "military-grade surveillance".
It was inevitable that Michael Gove's BETT speech earlier this week would steal the thunder of The Royal Society's report on computing in schools which was launched today.
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