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Mapping Digital Makers

A new State of the Art review by Dr. Julian Sefton-Green exploring the landscape of digital making for young people. more >

Can online innovations enhance social care?

In this provocation paper, Shirley Ayres explores a number of exciting new approaches to care, as well as some of the challenges we need to address if we’re to ensure our approach to social care is fit for purpose. more >

Nudge or Compel? Can behavioural economics tackle the digital exclusion of older people?

Offering people the opportunity to ‘Return to Paper’ if they are unsatisfied with their digital experience is just one of the recommendations put forward in a new report which explores the potential of nudging older people online. more >

The Digital Edge - using technology to support young people

High unemployment. Social exclusion. Low political engagement. Fragmented communities. It’s not difficult to construct a long list of youth policy challenges. The challenges are not new, and many are shared by all generations, but against a background of economic turmoil, environmental degradation, and increasingly complex local and global communities, more >

Employment and the Internet

This document provides a baseline of data around employment and digital technology. In doing so it maps emerging employment patterns that may provide opportunities to rethink how we address current levels of unemployment and underemployment. more >

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Latest project news

Social Care transitions into Networks

22nd May 2013
Following the government’s drive to support active and inclusive communities within social care provision in the UK, Tyze Personal Networks, a secure online tool which promotes and provides a networked, rather than an individual model of care has launched in the UK.  more >

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