CAPS2015, the international annual event on Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation. The event theme is ‘Networked Social Responsibility’. The CAPS acronym covers a wide range of approaches, activities and paradigms, impossible to pull together without rough simplifications. Nonetheless, at Sigma Orionis we believe they all have in common a social responsibility dimension, that we define as caring for the common good and fostering societal changes as immediate objective or direct consequence of one’s work or engagement.
In the majority of the articles published in this blog, a recurring keyword is social innovation. The paradigm is not only well-known among the experts of the sector, but that is also spreading fast in the whole civil society.
In today’s society topics such as environmental and territorial issues are increasingly gaining importance. The impact that pollution has on the Planet we are living in is of central importance in many debates.
"Digital Social Innovation is a type of collaborative innovation in which innovators, users and communities co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide range of social needs exploiting the network effect of the Internet."
These leaps in technology must be surprising for some. being in the position of a citizen would you support or oppose this use of resources, and explain why.
Social: This article expresses how emerging economies can change economies by social activities. It also can enable a more collaboritive economy. it also shows that many orginazations support social innovation. Even EU policy makers support this idea.
What's actually being represented in this article is that social privileges and social economy in Europe is changing drastically, something's that we do here aren't allowed o preferred in Europe. Social media, social conflict/ confrontation , etc..
Informal, formal and collaborative (IFC) is a new DESIS thematic cluster that is being created, in order to identify potential ideas for a new generation of services that could be designed from the underserved communities’ perspective. Underserved communities are complex social ecosystems, characterized by their lack of basic services and the density of their social networks. These communities are usually – but not exclusively – placed on Informal settlements, which are urban areas that function outside or at the limits of the regulations that govern society in cities and their surrounding territories. Brazilian favelas, South African townships, North African shantytowns, Indian slums or the problematic neighborhoods of cities in the world’s North: altogether a billion people are estimated to live in such places today (and it is predicted that this figure will double in the next 15 years).
In my last post, I described how we can move from social innovation to systemic innovation, being able to understand the system the issue you’re tackling sits within and how you want to affect change within it. But should we be even more ambitious and transform the dynamics of the system altogether?
NESTA is leading a pioneering research on Digital Social Innovation (DSI) funded by the European Commission. Insights from the research will help formulating advices to the Commission on how best support grassroots innovation to grow and increase its impact. In the context of the research, the definition of DSI is ‘a type of social and collaborative innovation in which innovators, users and communities collaborate using digital technologies to co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide range of social needs and at a scale that was unimaginable before the rise of the Internet’.
The latest trend in our quest to fix the global challenges of the 21st century is to ‘lab’ complex issues. In short, a lab is a container for social experimentation, with a team, a process and space to support social innovation on a systemic level. These social innovation labs are popping up all over the world and are quickly acquiring star status among funders and governments. Zaïd Hassan coins the emergence of labs as a “social revolution” for its ability to tackle large challenges, such as dramatically reducing global emissions, preventing the collapse of fragile states, and improving community resilience.
“This book edited by Ezio Manzini and Eduardo Staszowski documents and presents some reflections on efforts of DESIS Labs in Europe, Canada, and the United States that are participating in the Public and Collaborative Thematic Cluster. It includes 11 articles that present from a critical perspective the labs’ projects and activities during the 2012-2013 period. The book opens with Christian Bason’s paper, Discovering Co-production by Design. In this paper Bason, Director of Denmark’s MindLab, proposes a broad view of how design is entering the public realm and the policymaking processes. His essay offers updated and stimulating context for the entire book.”
Tammy Lea Meyer and Katalin Hausel explore unMonastery, a social clinic for the future. It is a place-based social innovation is aimed at addressing the interlinked needs of empty space, unemployment and depleting social services by embedding committed, skilled individuals within communities that could benefit from their presence.
Fundamentally, this is what comes down to. Is this a business or its not? The social aspect is important and that is part of the value creation of the business. How do you sustain that business? If there is value creation then there should be funding and scaling.
Social innovation is one of the fastest growing trends in Europe. Its founded on the idea that social needs can be met while creating competitiveness at the same time. Business Planet went to Verona in Italy to find out more.
The resource/manufacturing economy that has sustained Western society for the past two centuries is showing signs of rust. While the champions of weathered industries like print news, traditional manufacturing and fossil fuel extraction are applying fresh coats of paint and working double-time to undermine their opponents, global leaders are looking for a new way forward.
Over 130 million images with the hashtag ‘selfie’ have been uploaded to the social media platform Instagram. In The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self-Portrait, Brooke Wendt examines the significant hold that the ‘selfie’, or the digital self-portrait, has over self and society. Media theorist Vilém Flusser observed that society could become programmed to snap pictures for the sole benefit of cameras, as though under a ‘magical spell’, if photographs continued to be undecoded. Wendt examines this magical spell by analyzing users’ self-portraits on Instagram, one of the most popular contemporary platforms for image production.
Exactly a year ago United Nation's Assistant Secretary-General Robert C. Orr declared, "We will innovate, then we will renovate." At Social Innovation Summit 2014, renovation indeed was in full swing. There was a tinge of nostalgia letting go of General Assembly Hall giving life to a metaphor as the UN rebuilds itself, so too, the financial landscape is under reconstruction as referred to from "the great disruption" toward "the great distribution."
Business people need to create ecosystems in which diverse sets of talents are induced to think like DaVinci: across disciplines and stovepipes so we can gain new insights and synthesize new solutions. Luckily, some of this is already being done in pockets, but it's still not the mainstream approach. This week, a thousand cross-disciplinary thinkers and doers from all over the world will converge on Silicon Valley to take part in the Global Innovation Summit to learn how to create effective innovation ecosystems.
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