IDEAS IN PROGRESS
The Art of With : draft of my essay for Cornerhouse, Manchester can be downloaded here
The Art of With is about whether the web is creating a more open, participative and collaborative approach to culture and art, and whether that is a good thing.
You can also download the essay, comment on the draft and make your own point at the Cornerhouse site - www.cornerhouse.org/theartofwith
My long draft response to the British government's Digital Britain report can be downloaded here
The Search for a New Capitalism: a speculative essay for The Spectator, can be found here
Five Futures for the Internet: Notes for my talk to the British Library on September 23rd - The Internet and Society in the 21st Century - can be found here.
Understanding Social Innovation: rough text for my talk at the new Centre for Social Impact in Melbourne on September 16th can be found here.
Are you a Boulder or a Pebble? Notes for my talk to Ingenious Media on the future of the Media on September 12th can be found here.
Draft notes for my talk to the Engage Conference in Glasgow on September 11 about culture and collaboration can be found here.
Notes for my recent talk to the World Social Enterprise Forum in Edinburgh on September 4th can be found here
Slides I used to close the Young Foundation's Summer School on social innovation in San Sebastian in July can be found here
With: A draft of an article about seeing public services through the lens of relationships - a theme of What's Next? - can be found here. A work in progress.
WHAT'S NEXT: 21 IDEAS FOR 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION ?
What's Next? my report for the Innovation Unit on the future of learning was launched July 10th at an event with Andrew Adonis the schools' minister. You can download a text of the report here and copies of the slides a used at the launch event here. What's Next is based on case studies of six innovative schools and sets of schools and interviews with local authorities around the country.
You can read an article from the New Statesman magazine based on the report here, an article from the Guardian Education supplement here, since picked up in the Taipei Times, and coverage from the Times Educational Supplement here.
The Innovation Unit website has some more detail and links here.
WE THINK
We Think was published by Profile in March 2008 after a long period of development which included sharing a draft of the first elevn chapters online. This was downloaded thousands of times and I got hundreds of comments from people, most of them very helpful and some that changed the way the book was written.
I will be talking about the book at events in the Netherlands, Australia and the US as well as the UK in the course of the summer and Autumn.
You can download the first three chapters of the book from the We Think section of this website and leave a comment.
This video based on the illustrations done by Debbie Powell and animated by Tim Cowie explains the main ideas in the book.
You can find video of me talking about the ideas behind the book here and here.
My TED talk on collaborative innovation is here
This is a selection of the commentary on the book.
Spectator Interview with Matt D'Ancona here
Pat Kane's Review in the Independent here and Andrew Keen's response to the book here and Management Today here
Some of my other recent publications include:
The Completely Creative City is the working title for a project I am starting with the British Council and a network of north and central European cities to explore and experiment with what makes them creative. The project kicked off with a creative workship in Warsaw in March. You can find the draft paper circulated for this conference here
Making It Personal an exploration of the case for self directed public services based on personal budgets. Making It Personal looks at the rise of personal budgets in social care and examines the potential for self-directed services to spread to other areas. You can download a copy of the report here. And you can get presentations from the launch conference on January 18th addressed by Ed Miliband, Cabinet Office Minister here. Details of our next projects exploring how to scale up and extend personal budgets will be available from the Demos website soon.
The Difference Dividend argues that immigration and diversity are vital to Britain's capacity for innovation, especially in services, cultural and creative fields. This Nesta Provocation draws together research on the role of diversity in innovation and creativity with research on immigration. A copy can be downloaded here
Remixing The City argues that successful cities enable a mass of collaborative innovation and that new public service infrastructures for cities will have to enable mass participation in problem solving, using Web 2.0 style organisational models to reform systems for learning, transport, health, care and community safety. City Remix is an agenda for cities to lead social and public innocation in a new way, drawing on open soruce models of development. Download the report, published by the US group Ceos for Cities here
Social Software for Social Change is a report for the UK Government Office of the is Third Sector on the potential for social software to bring about social change by enabling new kinds of campaigning and citizen activism. One outcome from this project will be a Social Innovation camp run by the Young Foundation in conjunction with Nesta in early April. A copy of the draft report can be downloaded here
Social Enterprise The Next Ten Years another report for the Office of The Third Sector exmaining some of the forces that might shape the future of social enterprise is available here
Atlas of Ideas II: following the successful launch of our Atlas of Ideas report on the rise of science and innovation in South Korea, China and India, the second phase of the Atlas project was launched in late 2007 with flagship projects on science in the Islamic world, Brazil, and new roles of super regions in the world economy. Find our more here.
