Izwe is a growing community of people passionate about participation
Izwe means ‘people power’. Its founders are Nick Nielsen and Richard Wilson. The Izwe team have spent the last decade supporting organisations across the world to improve how they engage the public; and learning a great deal about what works and what does not along the way.
Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson is the founder and director of Involve (www.involve.org.uk), the world's leading public engagement think-tank. He has designed and delivered 100's of public engagement programmes for governments and businesses across the world including: the European Commission, the BBC, most UK government departments, the French treasury and the State of California. Richard has written four books and regularly appears in the national print and broadcast media.
Nick Nielsen
Nick is the founder and director of Envision, a youth empowerment charity which enables young people to realise their capacity to make a difference. Envision supports thousands of 16-19 year olds to set up their own social and environmental projects and has offices across the UK (www.envision.org.uk). A winner of the Ernest Shackleton Leadership Award, Nick is also a professional coach and trainer for audiences in business, education, healthcare and the voluntary sector.
Development Partners:
Benoît Thieulin
Benoit is the Director of world leading web agency La Netscouade. Prior to this he was head of the multimedia department at the French Prime Minister’s office and led the Ségolène Royal internet presidential campaign in 2007, Europe’s biggest ever online campaign. More recently he advised the Barack Obama presidential online campaign. La Netscouade specialise in online opinion monitoring, consultation, participation and network analysis.
Rachel Lapota
Rachel has almost 20 years experience in market and social research across a wide range of public and private bodies holding various senior research posts including at ORC International as a UK board member and most recently as a Director at Opinion Leader. Rachel is a member of the Market Research Society and of the Local Authority Research and Information Association.
Technical team: we have assembled a line-up of leading lights in social software development to drive our work, including Paul Birch, the founder of Bebo -one of the world’s most successful social networking sites.
If you'd like to join the Izwe community, please get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.
Find out more about the services we offer.
Izwe means ‘people power’. Its founders are Nick Nielsen and Richard Wilson. The Izwe team have spent the last decade supporting organisations across the world to improve how they engage the public; and learning a great deal about what works and what does not along the way.
Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson is the founder and director of Involve (www.involve.org.uk), the world's leading public engagement think-tank. He has designed and delivered 100's of public engagement programmes for governments and businesses across the world including: the European Commission, the BBC, most UK government departments, the French treasury and the State of California. Richard has written four books and regularly appears in the national print and broadcast media.
Nick Nielsen
Nick is the founder and director of Envision, a youth empowerment charity which enables young people to realise their capacity to make a difference. Envision supports thousands of 16-19 year olds to set up their own social and environmental projects and has offices across the UK (www.envision.org.uk). A winner of the Ernest Shackleton Leadership Award, Nick is also a professional coach and trainer for audiences in business, education, healthcare and the voluntary sector.
Development Partners:
Benoît Thieulin
Benoit is the Director of world leading web agency La Netscouade. Prior to this he was head of the multimedia department at the French Prime Minister’s office and led the Ségolène Royal internet presidential campaign in 2007, Europe’s biggest ever online campaign. More recently he advised the Barack Obama presidential online campaign. La Netscouade specialise in online opinion monitoring, consultation, participation and network analysis.
Rachel Lapota
Rachel has almost 20 years experience in market and social research across a wide range of public and private bodies holding various senior research posts including at ORC International as a UK board member and most recently as a Director at Opinion Leader. Rachel is a member of the Market Research Society and of the Local Authority Research and Information Association.
Technical team: we have assembled a line-up of leading lights in social software development to drive our work, including Paul Birch, the founder of Bebo -one of the world’s most successful social networking sites.
If you'd like to join the Izwe community, please get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.
Find out more about the services we offer.
