Because I’ve been out of circulation, I’m kinda forced to triage some stuff here. If you don’t find anything interesting from this list then you’re at the wrong blog anyway.
- This project turns prisoners into entrepreneurs. It boasts a cracking success rate on a small sample but it’s that sort of model that interests me. How to turn around people who are self-destructive and also harming society into being productive, and more importantly, rewarded for helping themselves.
- Article in The Economist: NORTHERN Ireland’s second city, once accustomed to violence, is now embracing hi-tech startups. The result is a handful of entrepreneurs intent on improving their city
- Why do consumers and kid “get” digital and yet brands and CEOs fumble with it? (especially in the public sector).
- The EU is to pump €100M into 1,000 startups. It would take some work to get one of those into Northern Ireland. Who’s game to try?
- The Arts Council of Northern Ireland Intercultural Arts Grants Programme has opened for constituted community and voluntary groups working at a local level with minority ethnic communities. The programme aims to provide opportunities for minority ethnic communities across Northern Ireland to access the arts and use artistic activities as a creative vehicle in which to explore and highlight social issues that impede access and participation in the arts.
- Mike Bithell on what the Unity Asset Store is all about. I think it’s about helping people who want to make digital models make money too.
- Video Report and Interviews – Apeldoorn British-Dutch Dialogue Conference 2013 – Eindhoven – 2013 (with a little cameo from Yours Truly on Page 2).
- Creative Skillset have just published the results from their Employment Census. Here are a couple of headlines for Northern Ireland:
- 5% (7,850) of the UK creative media workforce is now employed in NI, up from 4% in 2009;
- 31% of the workforce in NI are freelancers, down from 44% in 2009 – this is mainly because we’ve stopped counting community radio volunteers as freelancers;
- women represent 37% of the workforce here, up from 23% in 2009;
- 1.8% are from a BAME background, lower than the 2.9% across the wider working population in NI.