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Transcript of Nominet Trust introduction to National Assembly of Wales
www.nominettrust.org.uk
Supporting Social Innovation through Digital Technology
National Assembly for Wales, June 2013
Dan Sutch [email protected] @dansutch @nominettrust
To seek out, galvanise and support new, effective and
widely adopted solutions that transform how we address big social challenges through the
use of digital technology.
• Social investments and grants of c£5m per year • Aim to demonstrate how digital technology can be used to redesign the way we
address persistent social challenges• Aim to support (in addition to funding) scaling the social and economic impact • Direct relationship with Nominet’s public purpose & strength of their membership
Our mission
Research and Insight
Grant making and social investment
The successful application of new ideas generated at the intersection of insight and invention, which leads to the creation of social or economic value
Insight understanding the context, histories and work of others
Invention finding and developing the best ideas
Application putting ideas into practice
Value capturing outcomes, impact and learning
Social Innovation
Redesigning our approach to social innovation
Affordances of digital Tech
Social Entreprene
urship
Designing from ‘first principles’
Consider together, the:
Affordances of digital technology
The values & energy of social entrepreneurship and social business
Look again at the challenges and redesign approaches
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore%27s_Law_-_2011.svg
Many examples of significant tech-driven/tech-enabled
changes – where for social-tech?
The use of digital technology provides remarkable opportunities to redesign how we address persistent social challenges
This requires:• Creativity and imagination for how else we might address
these issues• Risk taking and testing of these new approaches• Entrepreneurship and willingness • Aspiration, persistence and tenacity• Openness, collaboration...• Advocates to help find social-tech entrepreneurs
In addition to the technology
What does social-tech innovation look like?
Podnosh ‘Recording Real Lives’Capturing voices of disconnected people for social policy makers
Futuregov ‘Patchwork’Supporting and improving communication between key local authority workers around the family
UK Online Centres ‘Outreach programme’Helping people get online in environments where they’re already comfortable (local pub, laundrette, cafes, churches etc)
‘Memory Box’Collecting digital memories for
recollection activities for people suffering from dementia
‘Discoverables’Helping young people discover,
develop and demonstrate skills for employability
Carers UK ‘Jointly’Supporting time-poor carers to
manage caring responsibilities with busy lives
History Pin£209k investment Global intergenerational site
40,000 contributors, 600,000 app users
eg Peoria Hist Soc 1.4m hits, $14,000 sales
Make Things Do Stuff
Make Things Do Stuff
:
"Make Things Do Stuff, a collaborative effort led by Nesta, Nominet Trust, and Mozilla, marks another important step in our ambition to become the most digitally capable nation in the world. We want to inspire young people to become creators and not just consumers of digital technologies“
George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Trailed in 2003, the Technocamps project was set up in response to the continuing decline in Computer Science Education.
In September 2011 Technocamps secured £3.9 M ESF funding to deliver a programme led by Swansea University in partnership with Aberystwyth, Bangor and South Wales Universities for 11-19 year olds in Wales.
To date over 4,500 young people have attended one or more day-long workshop introducing them to CS principles from a catalogue of projects.
Technocamps is also working with the LIFE programme in the City and County of Swansea in conjunction with BOX UK, S4C and Tinopolis, running the weekly CS Talent Academy for disadvantaged young people in Swansea.
Technocamps recently secured Digital Maker funding – 3000 Primary children will be undertaking CS driven digital making activities.
Stuart Toomey, project manager
Community ownership and management of Digital Network Assets
Exploring cooperative model for sharing internet access from Merthyr Valley homes to (in pilot) provide low cost access and support to tenants for 100 homes in Gellideg
Merthyr Valleys Homes and Creative Co-ops
(Gellideg Foundation; Welsh Government; MTCBC; Coed Y Dderwen School IT dept)
Mike Owen, CEO, Merthyr Valley Homes
Get IT Together in Rhondda Cynon Taf
Supporting 1200 older people to get online for the first time
Supporting 50 young people to develop employability skills
Citizens Online and BT Wales
Nominet Trust funding of £30,000 with £70,000 investment from BT Wales and £20,000 from RCT council
Current opportunities for Welsh social-tech entrepreneurs
How digital technology can be used to support people through transitions across the lifecourse
Transitions
To discover, to help demonstrate and test the potential of a new approach that uses digital technology to address a persistent social challenge.
Nominet Trust Open Innovation Funding
Discover by bfishadow ccFlickr
Dan Sutch [email protected]
Open Innovation description
http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/how-to-apply/areas-investment/open-innovation
How to apply
http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/how-to-apply/areas-investment/open-innovation
Application deadlines
http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/how-to-apply/application-deadlines
FAQs
http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/faq/how-apply
This presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/Dannno/io-ftechnologyds
Useful linksMore descriptions of our Open Innovation programme, links to ‘how to apply’ and some further background info.