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Supporting Social Innovation through Digital Technology National Assembly for Wales, June 2013

Dan Sutch dan.sutch@nominettrust.org.uk @dansutch @nominettrust

Our mission

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 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

Research and Insight

Grant making and social investment

Social Innovation

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

Redesigning our approach to social innovation

Consider together, the: Affordances of digital technology

Affordances of digital Tech

The values & energy of social entrepreneurship and social business

Designing from first principles

Social Entrepreneurship

Look again at the challenges and redesign approaches

Many examples of significant tech-driven/tech-enabled changes where for social-tech?

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In addition to the technology

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

What does social-tech innovation look like?

UK Online Centres Outreach programme Helping people get online in environments where theyre already comfortable (local pub, laundrette, cafes, churches etc) Discoverables Helping young people discover, develop and demonstrate skills for employability

Podnosh Recording Real Lives Capturing voices of disconnected people for social policy makers

Carers UK Jointly Supporting time-poor carers to manage caring responsibilities with busy lives

Futuregov Patchwork Supporting and improving communication between key local authority workers around the family

Memory Box Collecting digital memories for recollection activities for people suffering from dementia

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

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"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

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

Merthyr Valleys Homes and Creative Co-ops

(Gellideg Foundation; Welsh Government; MTCBC; Coed Y Dderwen School IT dept) Mike Owen, CEO, Merthyr Valley Homes

Current opportunities for Welsh social-tech entrepreneurs

Transitions

How digital technology can be used to support people through transitions across the lifecourse

Nominet Trust Open Innovation Funding

To discover, to help demonstrate and test the potential of a new approach that uses digital technology to address a persistent social challenge.
Discover by bfishadow ccFlickr

Dan Sutch dan.sutch@nominettrust.org.uk

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

Open Innovation description http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/how-to-apply/areas-investment/openinnovation

How to apply http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/how-to-apply/areas-investment/openinnovation

Application deadlines

http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/how-to-apply/application-deadlines