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social innovation and geezer power
Where do you find performance art, geeks, and a bunch of older people with attitude? At last week's 'On the Margins of Technology' Symposium, part of The Not Quite Yet exhibition at SPACE Media arts. I...
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Social Innovation Camp happened this weekend, and it rocked. Inspired by a mashup of netsquared, barcamps and seedcamp, it brought together a diverse bunch of hackers & social change activists to...
View ArticlegeeKyoto and the buzz
geeKyoto is the latest eclectic social-impact event with it's roots in London's digerati. Inspired by TED and last year's Interesting2007 event, Mark Simpkins and Ben Hammersley have taken the DIY...
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social startups versus strategic bankruptcy
Somewhere in the rough and tumble of April's Minibar there was a moment of alchemy. Minibar is always lively - turning the usual suspects of startups, VC's, coders and designers in to a once-a-month...
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Abstract for Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM2011)
I'll be doing the keynote talk in July at the First International Workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011). Here's my abstract - comments welcome (help make my talk better - the...
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Hopeful Hybrids: the idea of Social Innovation Assemblages
In Critical Hacktivism[1] I outlined an approach to the affordances of social technology that evades capture by existing institutional and knowledge structures. In this post I'll look at the next...
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