ChangeThinking with SmithMartin

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Continuing to reflect on happiness and social capital

The Office for National Statistics have this month (May 2017) just published another edition of the research generated by The Social Capital Project. A featured article from our archive…updated 7th September 2021 The…

International Day of Happiness

Pursuit of happiness is on the global development agenda, but not enough is being done to address learner well-being. UNESCO’s ‘Happy Schools’ framework (pdf) addresses the disparity. The Global Partnership for Education has…

New ways to search in 2017

We do a lot of desk research on the web, to find protocols we can recommend to clients, as well as looking for new material and content for the web sites we produce,…

Tackling Charity Social Media?

Skillsplatform.org have just published a new, very comprehensive charity social media tookit. The work, by Zoe Amar and David Evans offers the sector a profoundly useful resource to grasp the first principles of…

Earthquake in Nepal

Bhim, the trekking guide,and his family and niece, Kalpana are alive. House destroyed and living outside in a makeshift tent with tremors still continuing. No help reached them yet! Donations please via the…

The Code Generation

‘ Learning how to program is the new Literacy,’ says Marina Bers from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. An article by Niall Firth in the New Scientist 6.9.14, shows how children are using…

Community Energy Projects

Midsummer and a far cry from the dark days of a northern winter. So maybe not the best time to think about energy and energy savings. When we heard about community and energy…

Making connections in the Storyverse

We think that our projects are about making connections. Connecting children with books, connecting people with communities, making information freely available on-line for those communities of interest…revealing new things in new ways. We…

Emotional creativity – imaginative landscapes…

  Shekhar Kapur and A R Rahman have created a new Bangalore based social network for creative expression – QYUKI. Using the internet and a web connection to set your mind and your…

BME support flowers in Cambridgeshire

We are delighted as a partnership to be the web publishers for the new information directory for ABMEC,  a Cambridgeshire based CIC, supporting the BME community in the county. ABMEC is a lottery…

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