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vInspired and Sidekick Studios launch a new digital platform to bring temping opportunities to London youths

By: Kieron Kirkland
On: 18th April 2013

We recognise that the current economic climate is particularly challenging for young people. Whilst traditional employment opportunities are decreasing, young people are increasingly more prepared to take risks, embrace digital technology, and consider entrepreneurial employment opportunities. This is why we’ve started developing Task Squad.

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Open Data hack day – Life expectancy in Bristol

By: contactkev
On: 20th February 2013

About 15 people came together to look at various aspects of Bristol data as part of a HackReduce session at the weekend (South West Big Data). Here’s some charts showing life expectancy at birth gathered from Open Data released by Bristol council. The data was fetched from data.bristol.gov.uk and the Python code I used to generate the charts is included as a link in the results. more >

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Tenants on top

By: dave@kindofdigi...
On: 26th January 2013

The welfare reforms planned for April 2013 are a big upheaval. For housing associations this could mean rent loss, increasing arrears and constraints on future income growth.

In order to avert these risks, landlords will need to better understand their tenants. Resource allocation will have to be more targeted and more business intelligence (e.g. customer profiling) will be needed.

As not all tenants will be affected in the same way, housing associations will need to have in place improved systems for sharing information and identifying those who need help.

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Social Mirror: all systems GO!

By: gaia.marcus@rsa...
On: 14th January 2013

Happy New Year from the RSA Action and Research HQ everyone, and please join me in wishing a slightly belated Happy First Birthday to the Social Mirror projectmore >

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Our widget is live

By: edmitchell@tran...
On: 21st November 2012

The Transition Project Sharing Engine project is an experiment to see whether we can:

Produce a widget for webmasters to put on their own Transition Initiative websites
See whether community groups will moderate content that is shared by a wider movement
Build a growing community of webmasters in a movement to support eachother

It is going well.

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Our Digital Planet - win £500 worth of photography equipment

By: Rachael Gant
On: 12th July 2012

The internet is amazing. It has the potential to make a positive difference to our own lives, the lives of those around us and the world we live in too.

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