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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Everyone’s talking at Sydney’s first Social Innovation BarCamp
August 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Social Innovation, entrepreneur, personal development
Tags: Australia·change·collaboration·communication·community·connection·contribution·empowerment·entrepreneur·Environment·government·growth·local·needs·Social justice·Social Media·spirituality·Sydney·technology·Web·web development
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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The green future makers & the politicians
July 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Environment, sustainability
Australia is behind the rest of the world when it comes to developing sustainable energy. Yet we lead, especially in Asia, in education and research. Why is this? How can we make progress in these areas? Monday night was an interesting mix of the Future Makers documentary ~ Australians leading the way in sustainable energy, and [...]
Tags: Australia·change·climate change·collaboration·communication·community·connection·contribution·entrepreneur·Environment·government·technology
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 [...]
Tags: Australia·change·climate change·collaboration·communication·community·connection·contribution·Environment·government·human behaviour·local·needs·technology·Web
The Hive Sydney and Bart Jellema
July 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · entrepreneur
The Hive Sydney welcomed Ross Hill and heard Bart Jellema tell his story from start-up to exit last night at the return of this monthly event. After a bit of a hiatus the Hive Sydney returned with a packed house and a great story. Ross Hill started us off by explaining why the Hive was [...]
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