Hi Bricos,

Oh dear. I am posting something perilously close to self-promotion.
Ignore it if you like. However, I am attempting to provide ADDED VALUE,
in the form of some critical debate and hard data (see below) which may
help you to make sense of what's happened.

A few months ago Access Space applied to "The Observer" - a slightly
left-of-centre UK Sunday Newspaper, (The Sunday version of "The
Guardian") putting ourselves forward as one of "Britain's New Radicals".
People or organisations who were "Making Britain Better".

The 50 winners have been announced, (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2012/feb/18/50-new-radicals-britain-nesta
) and Access Space is one of them.

Fantastic! But there seems to be considerable confusion about whether
this is a list of ORGANISATIONS or PEOPLE. And some ambiguity about what
"radicalism" actually constitutes. And the website which lists the
winners (http://www.nesta.org.uk/news_and_features/britains_new_radicals
) sucks if you actually want hard data to analyse.

So I have spent the last couple of hours making a list of all the
winners and the websites featured.

(1) The list is in the order onNESTA's website, which is alphabetical,
by organisation or SOMETIMES by person.
(2) Where an organisation is in brackets, they are mentioned as
significant (eg: the originator) in the body text, but are not named as
the "radical".
(3) The list is # delimited.
(4) The list is pasted below.

Interestingly, we have worked with several of these organisations:

* We have run OpenStreetMap workshops.
* Dougald Hine has been a regular participant at Access Space.
* Lots of Access Space participants are also part of the Transition Town
Network.

...so we are quite well represented on this list. But some entries seem
just boggling. There are people who work for the government, who maybe
are really good people, but do they qualify as "radical"? CAN you
qualify as "radical" if you work for the government? There are some
"radicals" who are named individuals, and some who are organisations
with hundreds of employees.

Anyway, NESTA are hoping that this list will spark some contraversy and
debate - and I hope that we can use this publicity to give us some
leverage for Brico and IoT ideas more widespread in the UK. Eventually
we will prevail! Being featured on this list is "publicity only" - there
is no cash prize or other resource attached.

So if you have a great idea for helping us to use this publicity to
actually unlock real resource, hey, please, get in touch!

(Personally, I'm just well impressed by being on just about any list
that includes both Conrad "Mathematica" Wolfram and Rob "Transition"
Hopkins).

Cheers,

James
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#ORGANISATION#URL#Named People#

#3space#http://www.3space.org/#Henry Mason, Andrew Cribb#
#Access Space#http://www.access-space.org/#James Wallbank#
#Sidekick Studios#http://www.sidekickstudios.net/#Adil Abrar#
#Shared Lives Plus#http://www.sharedlivesplus.org.uk/#Alex Fox#
#Graphene (University of Manchester)#n/a#Sir Andre Geim, Professor
Kostya Novoselov#
#Frameworks 4 Change#http://www.frameworks4change.co.uk/#Andy Bradley#
#Includem#http://www.includem.org/#Angela Morgan#
#The Brilliant Club#http://www.thebrilliantclub.org#Jonathan Sobczyk,
Simon Coyle#
#Childreach International#http://www.childreach.org.uk/#n/a#
#Community Land Scotland#http://www.communitylandscotland.co.uk/#n/a#
#(Research Europe Ltd)#http://www.wolfram.com/#Conrad Wolfram#
#The Greenhouse#http://www.thegreenhousedingwall.co.uk/#Dave Lynch#
#Dementia Adventure#http://www.dementiaadventure.co.uk/#Neil Mapes, Lucy
Harding#
#Clinks Care Farm#http://www.carefarminguk.org/#Doeke Dobma, Iris van
Zon, (Norfolk County Council)#
#(De Montfort
University)#http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/partnerships/square-mile/square-mile-project.aspx#Professor
Dominic Shellard#
#Space Makers Agency#http://www.spacemakers.org.uk/#Dougald Hine#
#dRMM#http://www.drmm.co.uk/#Alex de Rijke, Philip Mars, Sadie Morgan#
#FairPensions#http://www.fairpensions.org.uk/#n/a#
#The Finance Innovation Lab#http://www.thefinancelab.org/#(ICAEW & WWF-UK)#
#(Swindon Borough Council)#n/a#Gavin Jones#
#Homeless World Cup#http://www.homelessworldcup.org/#Mel Young#
#i-Probono#http://www.i-probono.com/#Shireen Irani#
#CDI Europe, Apps for Good#http://www.cdieurope.eu/#Iris Lapinski#
#SB.TV#http://www.sbtv.co.uk/#Jamal Edwards#
#The Reader Organisation#http://www.thereader.org.uk/#Jane Davis#
#Sugru#http://www.sugru.com/#Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh#
#Rubies in the Rubble#http://www.rubiesintherubble.com/#Jenny Dawson#
#Spice#http://www.justaddspice.org/#(University of Wales)#
#KwickScreen#http://www.kwickscreen.com/#Michael Konn#
#Lexxic#http://www.lexxic.com/#Nicola James#
#The Liverpool Project#http://www.theliverpoolproject.org/#Dr Simon
Jackson, Dr Nick Rhead, Steve Boote#
#Livity#http://www.livity.co.uk/#n/a#
#Maslaha#http://www.maslaha.org/#n/a#
#Mind Candy#http://www.mindcandy.com/#Michael Acton Smith#
#(UK Government's Executive Director of Digital)#n/a#Mike Bracken #
#MyBnk#http://www.mybnk.org/#Lily Lapenna#
#We Are What We Do#http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/#Nick Stanhope#
#OpenStreetMap#http://www.openstreetmap.org/#Steve Coast#
#Incredible Edible
Todmorden#http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/#Pam Warhurst#
#PatientsLikeMe#http://www.patientslikeme.com/#Benjamin Heywood, James
Heywood, Jeff Cole, Stephen Heywood, Paul Wicks#
#Ideas Tap#http://www.ideastap.com/#Peter De Haan#
#Respect4us#http://www.respect4us.co.uk/#n/a#
#Transition Town Movement#http://www.transitionnetwork.org/#Rob Hopkins#
#Just For Kids Law#http://www.justforkidslaw.org/#Shauneen Lambe#
#Shift.ms#http://www.shift.ms/#George Pepper, Freddie Yauner#
#Start Again#http://www.start-again.co.uk/#Mark Peters#
#Citizens UK#http://www.citizensuk.org/#Tom Chigbo#
#UpRising#http://www.uprising.org.uk/#Alveena Malik#
#Women Like Us#http://www.womenlikeus.org.uk/#Emma Stewart, Karen Mattison#