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Making a Generation of Digital Makers
@kieronkirkland @nominettrust
To seek out, galvanise and support new, effective and widely adopted solutions that transform how we
address big social challenges through the use
of digital technology.
• Social investments and grants of c£5m per year • Aim to demonstrate how digital technology can be used to redesign the way we
address persistent social challenges• Aim to support (in addition to funding) to scale the social and economic impact • Foundation charity of Nominet – the .UK domain registry (10m+ .uk websites)
Our mission
Grant making and social investment
Research and Insight
Redesigning our approach to social innovation
Affordances of digital Tech
Social Entreprene
urship
Designing from ‘first principles’
Consider together, the:
Affordances of digital technology
The values & energy of social entrepreneurship and social business
Look again at the challenges and redesign approaches
Digital Makers – partnership with Nesta and Mozilla
What does it mean to be a ‘digital maker’
... to participate in cultures and communities of digital makers?
... to actively participate in cultures and communities that privilege
digital making and production?
An aspiration to increase participation and access to digital making activities, developing a generation of digital makers
Context: economic, social, personal...
Economic – Growth of Creative industries, under filled
digital skills, rapidly growing economy, new business
models
Education - computer in schools, learner centred approaches
Social technical trends: distributed workplace, networked society, new forms of participation,
Critical literacies – Creators not users Creativity
Types of engagement
Confident users of digital technology
Making sense of information online (Bold Creative)
Publishing and presenting (RadioWaves)
Making with and through the web (Hackasauarus)
Coding and programming
Creating physical digital products (Printcraft)
Computer science, network literacy
Civic engagement
Critical, digital and web literacies
Design, content, interaction
Digital conduct (personal, professional, legal)
Online business
Challenges to address
The catalysts and disconnects as young
people engage with digital making?
The productive capabilities needed for
digital making and the signposts across non-
linear progression/development?
How can we ‘loosely tie together’ efforts
across the wide range of digital maker
activities to greatest effect?
Mapping Digital Makers
http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/articles/mapping-digital-makers
#digitalmakers
The Digital Makers Programme
http://goo.gl/maps/2nioj
Digital MakerApplicants
#digitalmakers
Digital Making Champions
http://youtu.be/SfBeLvy4IpE
#digitalmakers
:
"Make Things Do Stuff, a collaborative effort
led by Nesta, Nominet Trust, and Mozilla,
marks another important step in our
ambition to become the most digitally
capable nation in the world. We want to
inspire young people to become creators
and not just consumers of digital
technologies“
George Osborne, Chancellor of the
Exchequer
Our values
• Digital technology is a tool to change the world, knowing how to harness it is a fundamental literacy for the 21st century
• We learn through making and sharing
• We work better together This is an open movement. Collaboration and sharing are key to its success
Join Us!• Committed to supporting young people to
become digital makers
• Want to extend your reach
• Work with amazing partners
http://socialtech.nominettrust.org.uk/
How digital technology can be used to support people through transitions across the lifecourse
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