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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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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Power to the people
September 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
Going into this election it felt like a mass wave of disapproval across the country of the way the election campaign had become “a fight between 2 dogs” as Rob Oakshott so eloquently put it. The outcome, of a hung parliament, was a great way of the people demonstrating this dissatisfaction. Before voting, I worried [...]
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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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Girls Leading Social Change
June 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Social Innovation
Recently I took part and presented on a day designed to inspire young girls, our future leaders, in creating social change. I was interviewed and here is the video for the day:
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