People often ask me what Social Innovation is and my answer constantly evolves, but I strongly feel that it’s importance will continue to emerge. Social Innovation is finding solutions to the social, cultural and environmental challenges we together face. The world and our society has experienced unprecedented growth in the last 100 years. While we [...]
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What exactly is Social Innovation?
January 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation
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That’s a wrap at Social Innovation Sydney #2
November 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Social Innovation
The feedback we’re receiving thus far is that the day created vibrant discussion, new ideas, and actionable steps. The collaboration and shared insight from the experience and passion of the multitude of attendees is the perfect recipe for continued action. Mark Pesce set the tone of the day by exploring our connection with material items, [...]
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Best of both world’s, but how to integrate?
September 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, technology
Walking home this evening, after an intense day focused with workshops on social innovation and web tech, it struck me how siloed these 2 worlds are when they have such potential to integrate. Both are developing their own methodologies and frameworks to become more efficient and increase the possibility of success, yet both show possible [...]
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Everyone’s talking at Sydney’s first Social Innovation BarCamp
August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, personal development
Saturday, the 14th of August, 2010 was the inaugural BarCamp discussing Social Innovation. An interesting and diverse range of people participated in conversation and activity throughout the day. “the vision for running the Social Innovation BarCamp is to provide a place for people to engage. There are many intelligent and effective people, from various fields, across the [...]
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Why run an unconference BarCamp to discuss social innovation?
August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, technology
On the 14th of August Sydney will hold it’s first Social Innovation BarCamp. But why is this different to the multitude of other events on every week? A **Barcamp unconference is a chance for all participants to contribute, an opportunity for conversation & for collaboration. After spending some time now in the social innovation and enterprise community [...]
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