This idea looked at how to unlock the often unrecognised potential in young people who are at risk of commiting crime/ anti social behaviour. The idea of a dragon’s den format in which young people who have shown themselves to be talented in a self-taught or informally learned discipline are invited to access unique mentoring opportunities. We match the young people with the most open minded and life-experienced CEOs who are willing to work with them to unlock and develop latent talent for future good.

This idea was around how to rejuvinate democracy from the bottom up, and how to go about doing this in a more disruptive way than through the ‘usual channels’. We looked at possibilities of supporting existing ‘lynchpin’/local activists to engage online as social reporters. This would mean arming them with the skills to interview and record their locale in a meaningful way, and to make their issues visible to others using self-broadcasting web-based approach.

You might want to check out socialreporter (David Wilcox’s blog) for further thoughts on the social reporting.

IpsosMori’s socio-political influencers work around how influence works in participative context is also relevant here.

Something previously looked at on my own (Alice Casey’s) blog here

This idea was around matching employers with new graduates in order to create more formalised work placement opportunities and recruitment pools. The premise was to enable young people to try something out for a while – to check out a number of different possible career paths in a more formalised way before embarking on the usaul rounds of graduate recruitment.