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States of Change public innovation learning programme launches in Australia and Canada

Our 9-12 month programme focuses on building innovation capacity by working on real projects and creating culture change.

Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Brenton Caffin, Jesper Christiansen, Isobel Roberts

Is this the best civic participation innovation of the past decade?

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This month one of our grantees - Spice - launched their first ever independent evaluation. It shows some impressive results.

Mandeep Hothi

22.12.14

Can open Heritage and Culture data help create a more open and diverse sector?

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Some ideas for entries to the Heritage and Culture Open Data Challenge which closes on 9th February 2015

Ed Parkes Briony Phillips

22.12.14

Designing and testing D-CENT prototypes

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D-CENT project started in 2013. Since then, we have conducted workshops with communities in the pilot countries Spain, Finland and Iceland...

Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein Francesca Bria

19.12.14

Civic technology – what’s all that about, then?

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If civic technology's to flourish in the UK and Europe, we need to talk about it to the broadest possible audience - the people who...

Darryl Chamberlain

19.12.14

Predicting the future is easy, working out what to do about it is not

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There's been a lot of interest in this idea of collective wisdom recently, and enthusiasm for data-driven forecasting - but how do we...

Jeremy Kingsley

19.12.14

The surprising and the difficult

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Twelve months on from finding our pioneering Cities of Service in the UK, we share some of the surprising and difficult lessons we've...

Meera Chadha

19.12.14

Pilots in Iceland: boosting bottom-up municipal democracy

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The piloting in Iceland focuses on improving and upgrading the online democracy software Your Priorities and utilizing it for D-CENT. The...

Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein Francesca Bria

19.12.14

D-CENT piloting in Spain: improving participatory democracy

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In Spain, the purpose is to offer D-CENT tools for the use of citizen movements moving into the electoral arena.

Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein Francesca Bria

18.12.14

The Shortcut, Labs

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A rundown of the stories in The Long + Short's Labs season. ...

Larry Ryan

17.12.14

2015, Year of Stretch Targets

Pilot Mike Melvill with SpaceShipOne, which won the Asari X Prize

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John Elkington, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Volans, recently spoke at the Centre for Challenge Prizes 'Challenges of our Era...

John Elkington

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Is this the best civic participation innovation of the past decade?

Can open Heritage and Culture data help create a more open and diverse sector?

Designing and testing D-CENT prototypes

Civic technology – what’s all that about, then?

Predicting the future is easy, working out what to do about it is not

The surprising and the difficult

Pilots in Iceland: boosting bottom-up municipal democracy

D-CENT piloting in Spain: improving participatory democracy

The Shortcut, Labs

2015, Year of Stretch Targets

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