Change Nation - the tech behind the scenes

Change Nation is a project that Ashoka Ireland have been developing for the last year. It, quite ambitiously, is about kicking off a series of interventions, projects, social enterprise ideas that address some of Ireland's problems, particularly as the country goes through a challenging period. I've been doing some event-based work with Boz Temple-Morris recently - I'm playing the role of a live-coder / data-wrangler / visualiser. As the creative director of the event he brought me in to think about what we could do from a digital point of view to support the idea. After a few open-ended discussions we settled on the idea of addressing the "it's not just a talking shop" issue that many events, summits and conferences suffer from. The Ashoka team had researched 50 "Proven Solutions" from around the World, and invited the entrepreneurs behind them to come to the summit for four days to see if they could get their ideas off the ground in Ireland.