Archive for 'Independent Living'

Archive for June, 2008

Ensuring innovation is a co-production

It’s vital that the views of citizens, service-users and those who represent and support them help to shape both the strategy of Innovation Exchange and its decisions about which innovations to work with. That’s the right thing to do – people have a right to be heard about issues that affect them – and […]

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2gether08

Innovation Exchange is heading off to 2gether08 on 2nd and 3rd of July. The event will bring together 300 people to explore how digital technologies can bring us major social benefits. Their line is, ’solve bigger problems’, which I really like. Along with the Sian Lockwood from NAAPS, we are running a […]

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New Online Social Network: A Mental Health, ‘Facebook’ like, ‘gated-community’

Today, socially-minded, non-profit, MESOMOCO CIC launches its first service: a powerful, free, self-help, online social network for the mental health community. Called NET.mesomoco.org.uk, this ‘gated-community’ was set up to support mental health sufferers, carers and other socially-minded organisations, such as the mental health registered charities.
It is hoped that NET.mesomoco.org.uk will enable people in the mental […]

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Video coverage of the Festival of Ideas: Innovation for independent living event

What happens when you put innovators, public service commissioners and investors who share one interest in the same room? Well, check out the video clips below and follow this link to find out what happened at our Festival of Ideas: Innovation for Independent Living event .
Below is a clip of Cabinet Minister Ed Miliband’s thoughts on innovation.

See John Craig […]

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