Themes + Values in Social Innovaiotn

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Africa’s ‘KINGS’ countries will drive the continent’s digital economy

Our ideal entrepreneur has Nigerian hustle, Ghanaian integrity, Kenyan smoothness, Ivorian persistence and South African diversity.

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Cincinnati's Design Impact Finding New Ways To Benefit Our Community

Design can be used for many things, but how about solving social problems? That’'s exactly what nonprofit social innovation firm Design Impact strives to

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Starbucks Canada Takes Bold Steps in Vancouver to Tackle Youth Unemployment -- VANCOUVER, Nov. 10, 2015

Company commits 10 per cent of all store new hires to Opportunity Youth in VancouverVANCOUVER, Nov. 10, 2015 /CNW/...

About Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation The Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation provides British Columbians in need with a system of supports that can help them participate more fully in their communities and achieve their social and economic potential. In 2015/16, the Ministry will invest$331 million in the Employment Program of BC, offering employment and labour market programs for all residents, including people who experience barriers to employment.

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SOCIAL enterprises will be able to bid for a share of £180,000 in the next round of Plymouth City Council's innovative Social Enterprise Investment Fund. Hot on the heels of the recent...

This is the first time a social enterprise has received this accolade in Plymouth, said Director Eloise Malone, who added it was "a wonderful sign in a city which is clearly beginning to embrace an ecology of culture, creativity and social innovation". 

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FailUp is an online social platform that allows students to connect and collaborate with others on their entrepreneurial ideas. Students can create a profile, post a detailed pitch for their venture and comment or vote on ideas proposed by their FailUp peers.  

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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has re-echoed the call to have a separate Ministry of Science and Technology so as to give prominence to the innovative spirit, which is alive among Ugandans.

The Speaker of Parliament,  Rebecca Kadaga, has re-echoed the call to have a separate Ministry of Science and Technology so as to give prominence to the innovative spirit, which is alive among Ugandans. Kadaga explained that a ministry dedicated to issues of science and technology would help promote innovation and development and address some of the challenges the country is facing. 

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Liz Ogbu, Azby Fund Lecture, In collaboration with the Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Forum Tulane - Taylor

The Taylor Center is proud to announce that Liz Ogbu, the first Taylor Fellows Expert-in-Residence, will host a public lecture on November 9, 2015 at Tulane University, School of Architecture at 6pm. A reception will be held at 5:15pm in…

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With a sustainable program structure, skilled advocacy, and targeted technical assistance, Evidence Action helped pull off the world’s largest one-day deworming event.

Delivering deworming medicine to 89 million children on India’s first National Deworming Day represents a significant victory in the global fight against soiltransmitted diseases and other parasitic worms. The government of India has demonstrated a strong commitment towards tackling the public health threat of worms. We at Evidence Action are focused on continued advocacy and technical assistance for school-based mass deworming in India and elsewhere. Perhaps our strategy can help other organizations have the same sort of outsized impact delivering proven interventions. 

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Hitachi: From a machine repair shop to world’s leading innovation giant

Hitachi was founded by mining engineer Namihei Odaira in 1910 as a machine repair shop at the Kuhara Mining Company in Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. With only five people, Odaira repaired imported machineries of European brands. It was at this point that this visionary leader thought of manufacturing his own original industrial machines. Odaira first produced the five-horsepower induction motor in 1910. From then on, there was no looking back. Using the name of its host community, Odaira nurtured Hitachi into an industrial engineering giant. Odaira, who died from a heart condition at the age of 77, has become one of Japan’s most revered engineering minds. Odaira foun

In April this year, Hitachi’s Research & Development Group launched its Global Center for Social Innovation to promote global, customer-driven R&D. The Global Center for Social Innovation in Tokyo (CSI-Tokyo) brought together designers and researchers specializing in service engineering to develop, integrate and deploy Hitachi’s advanced IT expertise into collaborative creation methodologies and tools that were cultivated using Hitachi’s unique service design.

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Hackathon seeks solutions to social problems

An online platform teaching school children how to manage money has been named as the overall winner of the Creative Minds Hackathon at the DCU Ryan Academy in Dublin this evening.

The hackathon - organised by the Academy and the US Embassy - saw 120 young people from Ireland, Northern Ireland and the US competing to find solutions to social problems.

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To ensure that its clean-water initiatives will stick and grow, Splash works with local partners that will take over when it moves on.

In turning down these offers, we have violated the old adage about never looking a gift horse in the mouth. Difficult as it can be, though, NGOs need to do that sometimes in order to keep from being distracted from their missions and core values. And by choosing not to go down some of the easier paths we might have taken in India, Splash will come away with much more robust learning and tools (research tools, programmatic models, financial forecasts and plans, and monitoring and evaluation systems) than we otherwise would have developed, to hand off to those who will continue the work there when we have departed.

In the end, at least one lesson we have learned at Splash can be boiled down to something simple: If you want truly sustainable and replicable solutions from your philanthropic work, do it the hard way.

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How to close the gap between what donors say they want to achieve and where they actually put their money.

Because of its exceptional wealth and generosity, the United States is the world’s largest philanthropic market by an order of magnitude. If donors could close the aspiration gap, billions of additional big-bet dollars would flow to the world’s most challenging problems, and millions of lives could change for the better for generations to come.

But if the social sector is to see more big bets go to the ambitious types of social change that philanthropists aspire to pursue, we need to build on the lessons that pioneering big-bet donors and recipients have learned. Making big bets on social change is genuinely hard. We must provide donors with a greater level of actual support. In parallel, media coverage must also change its focus and tone, to begin to shift the deeply entrenched mindsets that discourage big bets on risky social- change goals towards mindsets that are more like those of Doris and Don Fisher—willing to search for the right investment, willing to envision the long term, and willing to structure an optimal gift for the beneficiary organization(s), with the bigger picture in mind.

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While governments work to create the infrastructure to provide basic services, social enterprises often fill the gap through innovative solutions to reach ‘last mile’ populations. Waterlife India and GNRC Private Hospitals are two such enterprises.

" India has been a hotbed of social innovation in the past few years. Social enterprises have shown great impact in providing clean drinking water, health care, and even energy alternatives. By supporting them through the Social Enterprise Innovations program at the World Bank Group, we hope to scale these solutions within India from Madhya Pradesh to Jharkhand, and to other regions such as Africa. "Onno RuhlIndia Country Director for the World Bank Group

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