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Human-Centered Design Toolkit. For years, businesses have used human-centered design to develop innovative solutions.

Human-Centered Design Toolkit

Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? This project, funded by International Development Enterprise (IDE) as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, sought to provide NGOs and social enterprises with the tools to do just that. IDEO, in collaboration with nonprofit groups ICRW and Heifer International, developed the HCD Toolkit to help international staff and volunteers understand a community’s needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet those needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind.

The HCD Toolkit was designed specifically for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The HCD toolkit has been used by organizations throughout the developing world, including Acumen Fund, AyurVAID, Heifer International, ICRW, IDE, Micro Drip, and VisionSpring. Spigit Enhances Social Innovation Platform to Increase Engagement. Assima - Cloud based environments for collaborative e-learning. Staff training is vital to the professional development of any organisation, and is often a marker of a company's ability to achieve competitive advantage and growth.

Assima - Cloud based environments for collaborative e-learning

The social computing environment of today allows for a new, more collaborative approach to training and interaction between peers and trainers, as well as allowing improved access across geographic locations. Such collaboration allows for an exchange of ideas to take place, and a chance to learn new information leading to greater understanding, not just between departments, but to the greater audience as well. A good example of this is the NHS South Central's e-Learning programme team who have estimated savings of approximately £4 million through collaboration as opposed to individual trusts commissioning and developing e-Learning modules. Collaboration uniquely allows for an exchange of ideas to take place, and a chance to learn new information. Assima is a technology solutions provider. Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation. In a perfect world, scientists share problems and work together on solutions for the good of society.

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

In the real world, however, that's usually not the case. The main obstacles: competition for publication and intellectual property protection. Is there a model for encouraging large-scale scientific problem solving? Yes, and it comes from an unexpected and unrelated corner of the universe: open source software development. That's the view of Karim R. What he and his coauthors discovered: "broadcasting" or introducing problems to outsiders yields effective solutions. People often think about open source as a special case, as if such openness can only happen in software. The study and its findings are described in his paper "The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving," coauthored with Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Thanks to broadcasting, nearly one-third of the previously unsolved problems found successful solutions. "Innovations happen at the intersection of disciplines.

Karim R. Social Enterprise & Social Innovation Programs. Social innovation. Introduction Social innovation is an overarching term for a variety of practices that aim to address social problems, and provides a new lens to understand the role of the social in innovation.

Social innovation

Social innovation takes the form of products, processes, services and models that meet social needs. The concept has special appeal in policy and not-for-profit circles based on the promise of transformative change for the good of society using innovative means. Examples of successful social innovations include Alcoholics Anonymous (1935), Open Source Software (1998), Microcredit (1976), the National Health Service (1948), Open University (1969), Fair Trade Labelling (1988), Participatory Budgeting (1989), The Big Issue (1991) and Wikipedia (2001).

Lack of clear definition for social innovationSocial innovation is a bit like United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of pornography: ‘I know it when I see it’. Key theme: a new way of thinking about innovation 1. 2. 3. References.