AroundYou is an Australian social enterprise founded in 2009 and focused on using digital technology to promote community engagement and participation.
[2] The Bold Ideas, Better Lives Challenge was orchestrated as a national search to identify Australia’s strongest social innovations with TACSI posing the question “what do you think the big problems are facing our society and how do you think we can solve them?”.
[3] AroundYou responded by outlining the case for a digital solution to the problem of decreasing levels of community engagement and participation.
[6] From a highly competitive field of 52 submissions, AroundYou was selected as one of 16 tenants, due to its innovative approach of using digital technology to promote community engagement.
After moving into the Oxford Street premises, AroundYou gained notoriety first by establishing a City endorsed start up networking event called 66 Meetups and then later as being crowned the programmes ‘first graduate’.