OnTheUp is a system that allows young people to choose their goals and set their own personal challenges when working towards them and to keep records of the personal development they gained when working towards them!

OnTheUp started life as ‘Personal Development Reports’ at the Social Innovation Camp in London, April 2008. Many of the people involved in helping develop the idea met at ‘Sicamp’ and have decided to stay involved as we try to develop the idea further and eventually create a working online system!

Members of the Development Team include:

Ana Garcia: is a Designer, she likes diagrams, metaphors, logos, layouts, old people, colours, fonts, storytelling, great ideas, social connections… everyday she tries hard to represent progress visually in almost everything she does, and her current blog is available to everyone on her bedroom window in Hackney road!

Grant Kemp: is a php developer working primarily with property companies.

Kate Ettinger: is a Law school graduate specializing in health ethics and conflict resolution with over ten years of health-related experience in private, government, academic, and non-profit sectors. Driven to learn and committed to fostering success in endeavors that promote public health and human dignity

Madhava Bailey: has worked in IT for 20 years. First a coder, then a project manager, now co-director of “social web development and strategy” company Dharmafly. Madhava’s passion is social media strategy, from the forming of identity to connecting and engaging with new audiences. Madhava  chooses to only work for good causes and has recently worked with The National Deaf Children’s Society, Just Different and on a climate change awareness project with The BBC World Service.

Mike Amos-Simpson: is the founding Director of YoMo Community Interest Company. Previously Mike developed and managed the Young Movers programme for the National Communities Resource Centre where he raised nearly £1 million to support young people to organise community projects across the UK with a particular focus on the most deprived areas. Mike is the author of several training resources and books that aim to help young people make a positive contribution to society.

Ross Tweedie: Works as a web-developer for a small design agency with big clients based near Cambridge.

Tim Davies: is a independent consultant, researcher, developer and trainer with a focus on: youth policy; civic and youth participation in decision making; and social media and new technologies.

If you’d like to get involved leave us a message!