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social innovation refers to new ideas that work in meeting social goals. Defined in this way the term has, potentially, very wide boundaries – new ways of usimobile phone texting, and from new lifestyles to new products and services. hard work of implementation and diffusion that makes promising ideas useful). So social innovation refers to new ideas that work in meeting social goals.
Silicon Valley and its counterparts have shown what can be achieved when intelligence and investments are devoted to innovative technology. The authors argue that over the next few decades a comparable investment and attention need to be directed to innovations that address compelling unmet social needs. Social Innovations are new ideas that work to meet pressing unmet social needs and desires all around us. Examples include distant learning. patient led health care, fair trade, Wikipedia and restorative justice. While Huge energies and resources are devoted to innovation in science and technology. But far less attention has been payed to social innovation. This manifesto examines how social innovation happens in NGO's the public sector movements and markets. It makes the case for much more systematic initiatives to tap the ubiquitous intelligence that exists in every society and to increase the chances of social innovation succeeding.
The further development of social innovation is an urgent task – one of the most urgent
there is. Currently there is a wide, and growing, gap between the scale of the problems we face and the scale of the innovative solutions offered. New methods for advancing social innovation are relevant in every sector but they are likely to offer most in fields where problems are intensifying from diversity and conflict, to climate change and mental illness, in fields where existing models are failing or stagnant from traditional electoral democracy to criminal justice, and in fields where new possibilities such as mobile technologies and open source methods are not being adequately exploited. The world today faces a serious innovative gap. In fields raging from chronic disease to climate change we badly need more effective models and solutions Simplistic accounts in which progress is caused by technology invariably fall apart on closer inspection. Instead most of what we now count as progress has come the mutual reinforcement of social, economic, technological and political innovations. Every successful social innovator or movement has succeeded because it has planted the seeds of an idea in many minds. In the long run ideas are more powerful than individuals or institutions; indeed, as John Maynard Keynes noted, ‘the world is ruled by little else’. Often what we now consider common sense now was greeted by powerful interest groups with hostility. As Schopenhauer observed, ‘every truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.’ absurd to imagine that ordinary people could be trusted to drive cars at high speed. Social innovation doesn’t always happen easily, even though people are naturally inventive and curious. In some societies social innovations are strangled at birth, particularly societies where power is tightly monopolized, where free communication is inhibited, or where there are no independent sources of money.
10 examples of world-changing social innovations
1. The Open University – and the many models of distance learning that have opened up education across the world and are continuing to do so. 2. Fair trade – pioneered in the UK and USA in the 1940s-80s and now growing globally. 3. Greenpeace – and the many movements of ecological direct action which drew on much older Quaker ideas and which have transformed how citizens can engage directly in social change. 4. Grameen – alongside BRAC and others whose new models of village and community based micro credit have been emulated worldwide. 5. Amnesty International – and the growth of human rights. 6. Oxfam (originally the Oxford Committee for Relief of Famine) and the spread of humanitarian relief. 7. The Women’s Institute (founded in Canada in the 1890s)– and the innumerable women’s organizations and innovations which have made feminism mainstream. 8. Linux software - and other open source methods such as Wikipedia and Ohmynews that are transforming many fields. 9. NHS Direct and the many organizations, ranging from Doctor Robert to the Expert Patients Program, which have opened up access to health and knowledge about health to ordinary people. 10. Participatory budgeting models – of the kind pioneered in Porto Alegre and now being emulated, alongside a broad range of democratic innovations, all over the world.
Social Diffusion Patterns in Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds
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Pervasive Computing, physical space and collaboration Nicolas Nova How the environment supportssocial and collaborative processes
http://craftsrv1.epfl.ch/~nova/space-cscw-course.pdf
==The design and analysis of social-interaction research.==
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8624143&dopt=Abstract
==A Review of How Space Affords Socio-Cognitive Processes during Collaboration==
http://www.psychnology.org/File/PNJ3(2)/PSYCHNOLOGY_JOURNAL_3_2_NOVA.pdf
“Understanding complex cognitive systems: the role of space in the organisation of collaborative work. ” by Spinelli, G., Perry, M., O’Hara, K. in Cognition Technology and Work, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 111 - 118
A Manifesto for Networked Objects — Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things
Bleecker, Julian
Abstract
The Internet of Things has evolved into a nascent conceptual framework for understanding how physical objects, once networked and imbued with informatic capabilities, will occupy space and occupy themselves in a world in which things were once quite passive. This paper describes the Internet of Things as more than a world of RFID tags and networked sensors. Once “Things” are connected to the Internet, they can only but become enrolled as active, worldly participants by knitting together, facilitating and contributing to networks of social exchange and discourse, and rearranging the rules of occupancy and patterns of mobility within the physical world. “Things” in the pervasive Internet, will become first-class citizens with which we will interact and communicate. Things will have to be taken into account as they assume the role of socially relevant actors and strong-willed agents that create social capital and reconfigure the ways in which we live within and move about physical space.