Changemakers
I am part of the team organising the first Australian Social Innovation Camp. I have worked in the areas of online community engagement for a number of years and with people from all over the world. The projects I have been involved in have taken me to some of the most remote areas of the world where I have been able to learn more about the differences that still exist in our world. I decided to concentrate my working life looking for ways to connect people that want to help others. I am very excited seeing how the interest in social innovations continues growing in Australia and around the world
Director, Centre for Civil Society
Secretary, National Federation of Parents Families and Carers
I am a lawyer and digital community builder with over 10 years experience in IP/Technology law and website application development. I hate calling myself all those "jargonish" words but I guess I would like to see myself as an innovator and change maker who wants to enable people to do things and help each other more effectively.
Manager Development & Innovation at the Northern Rivers Social Development Council, based in Northern NSW. I'm keen to see the Northern Rivers become a regional leader in social innovation.
In my day job I'm a consultant with Headshift and I'm also the president of ICT Illawarra, an ICT industry cluster for a region in southern New South Wales, Australia. I think the Australian SI Camp is a tremendously important initiative and I'll be doing my best to support it over the next months as we build up to the March 2010 camp.
I have been running participatory design processes in the UK. Although largely anchored in school design, this work has also been very much about involving communities in visioning, planning and service design well beyond the school boundary.
I've just finished studying a B Comm (Marketing & Business Strategy) at the University of New South Wales. Next year I begin working in management consulting.
I love the concept of social entrepreneurship. One of my (many) goals is to be a social entrepreneur. Still fleshing out ideas.
I'm enjoying the opportunity to be a 'sponge' - to soak up everything in the social entrepreurship space.
After living and working across several continents, in remote Outback communities and busy cities, Jason is passionate to see social innovation take hold at the grassroots in Australia.
Shaped by early exposure to the diversity of people and the ways they live, Jason’s path has provided an equally wide-ranging apprenticeship in the commercial and social economies. Joining the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs (aka UnLtd) in 2002, he experienced a paradigm shift. Here he learned the ropes of the new economy, where entrepreneurship and innovation can provide the catalyst for positive change and improved possibilities.
Since 2008, Jason has helped nurture EGO - a collaborative partner for grassroots innovation - alongside his day job at UnLtd, in the UK, and then while setting up the Australian Centre for Social Innovation, back in his hometown of Adelaide.
A consultant doing work in Knowledge translation and exchange amongst other things. www.strategyguy.com
on Twitter @thomkearney
