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The ground-breaking 100,000 Genomes Project is a highly ambitious programme that has established the UK as the global leader in genomic medicine. Focussing on rare diseases and common cancers, the Project provided a proof of concept for establishing a fully integrated Genomic Medicine Service in the UK National Health Service, the first health service in the world to offer whole genome sequencing for some conditions.
The Poverty Stoplight (PS) seeks to activate the potential of families to eliminate multidimensional poverty beyond traditional income measures through a self-evaluation tool. PS is used by communities, businesses and governments to support families in assessing their poverty levels and implementing practical solutions, empowering the poor to be architects and protagonists in the process of eliminating poverty.
Better Reykjavik is a co-creation project of the Citizens Foundation, Reykjavik City and its citizens that connects them and improves trust and policy. It’s a platform for crowdsourcing solutions to urban challenges and has multiple democratic functions: Agenda setting, Participatory budgeting and Policymaking. Innovations include unique debating system, crowd-sourcing, submission of multimedia content and extensive use of AI to improve the user experience as well as content submitted.
The programme “Outreach Services: Empowering Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Their Community” empowers persons with disabilities in order to gain independence and encourage the realization of an inclusive social environment that is friendly and caring towards the people with disabilities. It takes a family and community-based social-service model, and the inclusiveness of the innovation also avoids the separation the beneficiaries from their family and community. Compared to…