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10 Nov 2022
🚀The Assist catalogue has been updated!
👀It’s super quick to scan through and you can browse by topic - a-s-s-i-s-t.notion.site/a-s-…
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29 Apr 2024
🚀Sport for [insert transformational idea]
❓What ideas are there that the 'power of sport' could support?
Some ideas🤔:
🍩Sport for Doughnut Economics [@DoughnutEcon]
💰Sport for Universal Basic Income [@UBILabNetwork]
🏛️ Sport for Citizens’ Assemblies [@democracynext]
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29 Apr 2024
📨Would love to hear any other suggestions for ideas/movements or if anyone wants experiment with some of these ideas.
#sportforsocialchange
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21 Feb 2024
Great thread 👇
20 Feb 2024
1/6 Always remember the tyranny of authoritarian language.
That way powerful people change the way they describe the same concept, but with starkly juxtaposed language for different populations🧵
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6 Feb 2023
Hi Twitter, friends 😀. I’m looking for a mixture of resources, including articles📑, studies, books📚, and videos🎥/podcasts🎤 that discuss the business case for diversity. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
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16 Dec 2022
📩The last Assist of 2022 is here:
💭| Something to think about - Building a startup using AI
📚| Something to read - 'Another' Football @evolvefooty
👀| Something to look into - Sport and Human Rights 101 @SportandRights
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The Assist Newsletter retweeted
21 Dec 2022
Interested in being paid to make a difference for women and sport? Check out three funded research opportunities to be involved with @IWGWomenSport and @wish_pathway 👇🏻. More info @UniofHerts herts.ac.uk/staff/careers-at… and herts.ac.uk/research/researc….
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21 Dec 2022
📚| Something to read 👇
20 Dec 2022
Me and @Lucy_C_Mills wrote a little 101 for Web3 x Sport x Social impact for those people curious about regen sport, but concerned by recent crypto scandals. Hope it helps: sportanddev.org/en/article/n…
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16 Dec 2022
📩The last Assist of 2022 is here:
💭| Something to think about - Building a startup using AI
📚| Something to read - 'Another' Football @evolvefooty
👀| Something to look into - Sport and Human Rights 101 @SportandRights
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16 Dec 2022
#71: Building a startup using AI, 'Another' Football, and Sport & Human Rights 101
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14 Dec 2022
A MUST read discussion starter by @evolvefooty that looks at creating an alternative version of football with web3 technology and communities⚽️
9 Dec 2022
Our discussion starter for a Game B football: mirror.xyz/jacobnaish.eth/vH…
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21 Nov 2022
A quick example from the world of football that can be used to highlight the vital ‘unpaid care & domestic' work (aka the reproductive/love/2nd-hand economy) within society/economy.
I like how @KateRaworth explains why it should be more visible within economics 🧵
21 Nov 2022
'Without them, you wouldn't even know me.'
Raheem Sterling's sister and mum.
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24 Nov 2022
⚽️ A football that has this type of disruptive innovation at it’s core👇
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24 Nov 2022
If you could change anything about Football, what would it be?
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22 Nov 2022
Do you like the football you have now?
20%
Yes
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Show me the results
15 votes • Final results
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21 Nov 2022
A quick example from the world of football that can be used to highlight the vital ‘unpaid care & domestic' work (aka the reproductive/love/2nd-hand economy) within society/economy.
I like how @KateRaworth explains why it should be more visible within economics 🧵
21 Nov 2022
'Without them, you wouldn't even know me.'
Raheem Sterling's sister and mum.
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21 Nov 2022
...community services, parental leave and youth clubs, the need for care-giving doesn’t disappear: it just gets pushed back into the home. The pressure, particularly on women’s time, can force them out of work and increase social stress and vulnerability...
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21 Nov 2022
That undermines both well-being and women’s empowerment, with multiple knock-on effects for society and the economy alike”
Source: Doughnut Economics by @KateRaworth
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21 Nov 2022
📩 Check out last week's Assist
👀| Something to look into - Sporting Crypto via @PetBerisha
📚| Something to read - Sport for Social Cohesion via @LouisMoustakas
✏️| Something to sign up to - Upping the game via @sportanddev
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21 Nov 2022
#69: Sporting Crypto, Sport for Social Cohesion, and Upping the game 👇
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