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First name

Lucy

Last name

Hooberman

Short profile

Innovation Executive working at BBC Innovation and Research

Longer profile

I work at the BBC on a range of innovation and development projects - the last and most visible of which is the BBC's blog network. I am also writing and advising on Local to Global issues sometimes described as Glocal! I am a media, digital media and social media practitioner and innovation leader with experience of both the Independent Sector and the BBC. I also facilitate groups at the BBC particularly when several different departments need to work together. BM (before Media) I helped set up Red Wedge - a cultural movement designed to get young people to register to vote - an early project in collaboration, innvoation and cultural industries! I also produced the first video movie made by a cooperative and shown on C4 and via the BFI. My most recent voluntary work was acting as an advocate for user-centred and patient-lead innovation at the Development Forum for the Guys and St Thomas' Charitable Foundation.

Interests

Passionate about the connections between media and social change from early Channel Four contributions to web-based projects. Currently also thinking through a personal project to practise what we preach in the area of free internet tools and collaborationin the field of the global digital divide. Currently preparing a seminar for the Reuters Institute of Journalism on how an age of participation can help reinvent or reinvigorate the public sphere.