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www.nominettrust.org.uk

Supporting Social Innovation through Digital Technology

National Assembly for Wales, June 2013

Dan Sutch [email protected]

@dansutch @nominettrust


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To seek out, galvanise and

support new, effective and

widely adopted solutions that

transform how we address big

social challenges through theuse of digital technology.

Social investments and grants of c5m 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 Nominets public purpose & strength of their membership

Our mission


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Research and Insight


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Grant making and social investment


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The successful application of new ideas generated at theintersection 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 ideasApplication putting ideas into practice

Value capturing outcomes, impact and learning

Social Innovation


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Redesigning our approach to social innovation

Affordances ofdigital Tech

SocialEntrepreneurship

Designing fromfirst principles

Considertogether, the:

Affordances of digital technology

The values & energy of social

entrepreneurship and social business

Look again at the challenges and

redesign approaches


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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?


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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


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What does social-tech innovation look like?


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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

theyre 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 JointlySupporting time-poor carers to

manage caring responsibilities with

busy lives


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History Pin209k investment

Global intergenerational site

40,000 contributors, 600,000 app users

eg Peoria Hist Soc 1.4m hits, $14,000

sales
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Make Things Do Stuff
https://vimeo.com/67463449


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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 creatorsand not just consumers of digital technologies

George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
https://vimeo.com/67463449https://vimeo.com/67463449https://vimeo.com/67463449https://vimeo.com/67463449


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Trailed in 2003, the Technocamps project was set up in response to the continuingdecline 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


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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 Homesand 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


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Current opportunities for Welsh social-tech entrepreneurs


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How digital technology can be used to support people through transitions

across the lifecourse

Transitions


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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


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Dan Sutch [email protected]


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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

Useful linksMore descriptions of our Open Innovation programme, links to how to apply and some further background info.
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