This just looks like a typical UK 'jobs for the boys' venture - draw a salary for three years, wrap it up, move onto the next one. Little surprise to see NESTA throwing money at it:
Bethnal Green Ventures is co-ordinated by Paul Miller. Paul has spent the last seven years learning how to start new organisations that use technology to solve social and environmental problems, primarily through School of Everything and Social Innovation Camp. Before that he worked at the think tank Demos and the sustainability charity Forum for the Future.
So basically he's a quango man, who's added a few tech names as 'advisors'.
Nothing will come out the other end. But it will keep a few Shoreditch hipsters gainfully employed.
Bethnal Green Ventures is co-ordinated by Paul Miller. Paul has spent the last seven years learning how to start new organisations that use technology to solve social and environmental problems, primarily through School of Everything and Social Innovation Camp. Before that he worked at the think tank Demos and the sustainability charity Forum for the Future.
So basically he's a quango man, who's added a few tech names as 'advisors'.
Nothing will come out the other end. But it will keep a few Shoreditch hipsters gainfully employed.