DEMOS

• Web I'm 64 (past) The expansion of the internet has distributed itself unevenly across the generations. Around 70% of people over 65 do not use the internet, compared to 30% of the overall population. Elderly people also experience some extreme forms of social exclusion; for example, 300,000 older people have gone a full month without speaking to family or neighbours.
  
  Will the ‘age based digital divide’ fade away or is it here to stay? The connections between old people‘s digital and social exclusion remain unclear. Exactly what does the internet do for old people? Can it help make for a better old age? Researchers: Celia Hannon Peter Bradwell 6 Bookmarks 10 Themes
• Children of Europa New Europe is not a place, it’s a young person. Committees, constitutions and commissions may hold Europe together as a political project, but it is people that hold it together as a cultural entity. This project will look at the aspirations of geographical Europe’s youngest generation, focusing particular on the way they make and exchange new-media with one another. Researchers: Celia Hannon Charlie Tims 32 BlogPosts 256 Bookmarks 92 Themes
• For Your Information (past) We live in an information age. Libraries, radio and television have been supplemented by the Internet, email and mobile technologies.  But we seem to have quickly generated a state of collective angst about what new levels of openness, and an environment rich in information, mean for the protection of personal data – for where it is stored, who sees it, what it is used for, and what it might say about us. Researchers: Peter Bradwell 52 BlogPosts 282 Bookmarks 84 Themes
• Private Lives? This Demos collection will highlight new thinking about privacy in the UK, and seek to address the future challenges of the privacy agenda in an increasingly open society. Researchers: Catherine Fieschi Charlie Edwards 5 BlogPosts 8 Bookmarks 11 Themes
• Recruitment 2020 (past) A project with the Guardian and the The Recruitment & Employment Confederation Researchers: Duncan O'Leary Grahame Broadbelt 33 Bookmarks 29 Themes
• Cool Tools for Government (past) We're looking at 'cool tools' that allow us to re-think public services. Who are the people seeing the gaps between individuals and institutions, and how are they filling them? How do we close feedback loops? Researchers: Molly Webb 10 BlogPosts 7 Bookmarks 21 Themes
• As You Like It (past) This work examines the implications of current trends in the English Language for policy agendas. Run in association with Cambridge Assessment, and ESOL Examinations at the University of Cambridge, it will identify not only areas in which policy makers will have to change to meet the challenges posed by the emergence of variants of English - Englishes - but also how government and others can work with providers to take advantage of the many opportunites that 'Englishes' present... Researchers: Kirsten Bound Peter Bradwell 21 BlogPosts 24 Bookmarks 29 Themes
• Digital Curriculum - Their Space (past) The way young people use technology outside school is changing and so are the ways they learn. This project, funded by the NCSL, aims to explore how schools should respond to children's informal learning with digital media such as games consoles, the internet and mobile phones. Researchers: Celia Hannon Hannah Green 8 BlogPosts 40 Bookmarks 38 Themes
• Atlas of Ideas 2.0 The Atlas of Ideas is mapping changes in the global geography of science and innovation - pinpointing where innovation is coming from and where it is heading.
  
  So far our work has focused on China, India and South Korea, but Phase 2.0 sees Demos extend this work to include an ambitious study of science in the Islamic world; a focus on the innovation potential of Brazil; a closer look at 'knowledge nomads'; and the prospects for a low-carbon China. Researchers: Charles Leadbeater Jack Stilgoe 87 BlogPosts 126 Bookmarks 39 Themes

Demos Greenhouse