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🚀The Assist catalogue has been updated!

👀It’s super quick to scan through and you can browse by topic - https://t.co/KPcHP5p5JY

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📨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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🚀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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Great thread 👇

[John Amaechi OBE @JohnAmaechi]

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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@sportanddev @sportanddev this looks like a great opportunity. I can’t find a salary on the JD - is it a paid position?

[Martin Sinclair PLY @MartinSinclair1]

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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📩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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[Elizabeth CJ Pike @Elizabethcjpike]

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 https://t.co/0mPC2U0Q8P and https://t.co/pDHpMRnJVE.

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📚| Something to read 👇

[Jacob Naish @munchenbikkies]

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: https://t.co/IBd1PYEuiU

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#71: Building a startup using AI, 'Another' Football, and Sport & Human Rights 101
https://t.co/WKyZLU0Uc1

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📩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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A MUST read discussion starter by @evolvefooty that looks at creating an alternative version of football with web3 technology and communities⚽️

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Our discussion starter for a Game B football: https://t.co/m87M4tvreA

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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 🧵

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⚽️ A football that has this type of disruptive innovation at it’s core👇

https://t.co/0sFa0L4jBt

[Evolve Football @evolvefooty]

If you could change anything about Football, what would it be?

[Evolve Football @evolvefooty]

Do you like the football you have now?

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@LouisMoustakas @PetBerisha @sportanddev No probs! A really valuable piece for anyone developing or delivering sports-based programmes aimed at improving social cohesion.

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📩 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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@PetBerisha @LouisMoustakas @sportanddev No probs! Sporting Crypto has some great insights that can definitely be utilised by people wanting unlock Web3 tech in the 'sport for social change' space!

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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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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 🧵

[Players' Tribune Football @TPTFootball]

'Without them, you wouldn't even know me.'

Raheem Sterling's sister and mum.

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...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...