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
Tags: change·collaboration·communication·community·connection·contribution·empowerment·entrepreneur·Environment·government·growth·human behaviour·local·needs·Social justice·Sydney·technology
Change Politics in Australia
August 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Politics
Australia now has it’s first hung parliament in 70 years. The people spoke and told our politicians they were unhappy with the way they conduct themselves and the way this campaign was run. But can it change? And, if it does, can we maintain it? As many of you who follow my tweets and read [...]
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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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Sustainable Design and Ezio Manzini
July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Environment, Indigenous Australia, Social Innovation, Social Media, Social justice, entrepreneur, sustainability, technology
Everybody now acknowledges that there is a problem concerning our environment. The unfamiliar and unsure part is what we can do to solve this. Last week one of the leading thinkers in sustainable design visited Australia. Ezio Manzini shared his wisdom in helping us make this change now. He identified the tools and opportunity we have already around [...]
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Collaborative Consumption is consuming us. But what is it?
July 5th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Social Innovation
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