Gates Foundation

These days I have had the opportunity to present our movement building work at the Gates Foundation in Seattle. It was an internal meeting of their summer weeks and super interesting guests, including Steve Banks (Lean startup) were invited.

Gates Foundation is collecting the existing narratives of American teachers in order to build a reform movement. We will continue learning from each other and exploring collaboration opportunities. Thanks to Vicky Phillips, Jennifer Aguilar, Carina Wong and the rest of the team. These are some pictures I took in the city.

Mondragon in London

A delegation from LKS-Mondragon Cooperative Corporation visited The Young Foundation last week aiming to explore a long term partnership. Connecting Basque and British social innovation leaders.

Cities as Innovation Engines. NESTA Labworks 2015

Cities are proving particularly fertile territory for innovation, from i-teams inside municipalities to civic hacking movements of citizens working collaboratively cross sector to transform their city. What methods and tools are emerging – from open data through civic technology – that allow cities to tap into their collective intelligence and what role can labs play as catalysts in cities’ innovation engines?

Moderated by: John Gibson, Director of Government Innovation, Nesta, UK

• Ben Hecht, President & Chief Executive, Living Cities, USA
• Namrata Mehta, Director, CivicLabs, India
• Carolina Pozo, Secretary General – Planning and Open Government, Quito Municipality – City Government, Ecuador
• Gorka Espiau, Director, Cities and Regions, The Young Foundation, UK

LabWorks 2015. 9 July 2015 at St. Paul’s, London

-See more at: http://www.nesta.org.uk/labworks-2015-programme#sthash.z93VvJvX.dpuf