Change we can believe in
Change // Reform // Collaboration
Change // Reform // Collaboration
The film below discusss the past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder of Soundcloud.
Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities being enabled by technology as we enter the Networked Society. Concepts such as borderless opportunities and creativity, new open business models, and today's 'dumb society' are brought up and discussed.
For more, check Ericsson's Networked Society
Earlier this month the Center for American Progress Please join the Center for American Progress - in conjunction with the Young Foundation - released two practical innovation guides as part of their Doing What Works programme:
The guides discuss why it is so difficult to innovate in the public sector, and provide thoughts on how government can begin generating and implementing new ideas. The absence of a profit motive requires different ways of inspiring great ideas and nurturing the best of them into social transformations that improve the world. Innovation in the public sector is not, however, an oxymoron and the guides provide many examples of governments around the world that are working on projects to spur innnovation and harness the ideas of their employees.
Interview with Stephen Goldsmith - Daniel Paul Professor of Government and the Director of the Innovations in American Government Program at Harvard Kennedy School - on the Power of Social Innovation.
Spotlight Webcast: Social Innovation with Stephen Goldsmith from Spotlight on Vimeo.
The interview above discusses Goldsmith's book The Power of Social Innovation. The book describtes itself as providing "tools for civic entrepreneurs to create healthier communities and promote innovative solutions to public and social problems." It does this through detailing case studies of civic leaders and entrepreneurs and the examining the role each plays in transforming a community’s social service delivery systems.
It features illustrative case studies of change-oriented philanthropists, public officials and civic leaders. The book features established organizations such as the New York City public schools, United Way of America, the United Negro College Fund, and Teach For America, and shows how each plays a role in transforming a community’s social service delivery systems.
Social Innovation and Public Service Delivery
For more on how Social Innovation is impacting the provision of Public Services, check Dominic Campbell's research on the Next Wave of Public Service Delivery.
For more on the Power of Social Innovation follow @powerofsocinnov.
