September 15, 2010 6:30 PM - 45 attended
Social Media, Enterprise and Action
Have you ever wondered how social action networks can be used to help enhance social action or even get enterprises up and running? And do you know what help you can get if you want to develop either of these. This meetup will try to address these questions.
Analia Lemmo from Unltd will tell us about their “Better Net scheme” that they do in partnership with the Nominet Trust. This trust is one that supports distinctive and inventive Internet-related projects that can make a difference to people, primarily in the areas of education, online safety and inclusion. UnLtd is a charity which supports social entrepreneurs - people with vision, drive, commitment and passion who want to change the world for the better. Analia will also have an award winner with her as a case study of how the Internet is being used.
Andy Gibson is an award-winning social entrepreneur, campaigner and consultant specialising in the social applications of new technologies. He’s founder and director of the innovation consultancy Sociability, co-founder of “education 2.0″ start-up, School of Everything, which won both a New Statesman New Media Award and a Prime Minister’s Catalyst Award in 2008, and founder of the “5-a-day for your mind” campaign, Mindapples. In 2009 he co-authored his first book, Social by Social, a practical guide to using social technologies for social good, and in 2010 published a follow-up policy pamphlet, Local by Social, a guide to digital innovation in local authorities for NESTA and the IDeA.
Senake Atureliya started Pie Finance which has piloted a solution (international patents pending) that enables individuals to create their own top jobs and leap over the idea-2-financable gap to start their own businesses. They have created the social media platform Dealmaker Online – a platform helps individuals and businesses create a much safer delivery-to-repayment infrastructure. It is a business developed through a social media platform and involves others in developing their business idea online.
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student4life
Peter Jones, May you help me find the programme "Nurture Centres"? sounds like an interesting thing to watch!
Posted September 2, 2010 at 7:10 PM -
Peter Jones
Hi Idan, I am chasing Channel 4 for a link to the program, but not getting the responses I'd like. Having a meeting tomorrow morning with Ambassadors for Philanthropy, maybe they can pull some strings.
Please connect with me using my contact details, together we are stronger !
Posted September 15, 2010 at 12:01 PM
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Dr A.V.MATAIFull memberIt is a good idea to bring people with skills,experti
se and money together to create business enterprise with job opportunities. However to start with somebody has to come forward to invest money. This is possible either through charity organisations/ philanthropists or joint venturists.
To expedite this idea I suggest to start it based on units participation. Every participant initially buys some units in cash and some with skills. As the venture is set up and starts generating profits it may distribute dividends in form of redeemable units.
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I notice Andy Gibson is into Education. Do others, like me, think that Nurture Centres - featured in Channel 4 Dispatches months ago - was such a great idea that government should adopt it as standard, not withdraw funding?
Very quickly, disadvantaged UK kids without home support who "fall out of the school system", are taken into Nurture Centres, re-socialised (not as bad as it sounds), and re-enter mainstream ahead of those they used to disrupt. A no-brainer, long term cost saving, surely?