Latest content now on our Networked City wiki, where we are exploring how London citizens, community groups and charities will face major changes in the way that they connect, communicate and support each other in future.
Current and past work by David Wilcox, Drew Mackie and colleagues. See also blogs:
Since 2012 we have explored, with Nominet Trust and then Age Action Alliance, the importance of digital technology for older people, particularly in relation to personal wellbeing and the challenges of loneliness and social isolation.
During 2015/2016 we worked on the Joined Up Digital Project with the Centre for Ageing Better, bringing together many of our ideas from the past four years. That resulted in:
Blog posts on these developments
Full reports on the explorations.
Latest papers:
Mapping and development of networks underpins a lot of our current work on localities as social ecosystems.
Latest papers:
We have archived earlier sites that includes guides to community participation, partnerships, and networking
Living Lab The Living Lab is an evolving programme of workshops and online social reporting activities, led by David Wilcox and Drew Mackie, to explore how to use digital and other media in different settings - or ecosystems. In practice we often use a fictitious town called Slipham as the setting for the Lab, and then use insights to work “for real” on various projects.
Ageing Better Innovation The original home for an exploration into how innovations, enabled by digital technology, can help support personal well being, and services for ageing better. It builds on an earlier exploration carried out in 2012-13 for the Nominet Trust. The current exploration is being undertaken with the Digital Inclusion Group of the Age Action Alliance.
Living Well and Ageing Better posts, indexed on this wiki Posts from the socialreporter blog
Socialreporter David Wilcox's blog
Socialreporters Team blog for explorations on behalf of Nominet Trust and Big Lottery Fund
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