European Social Innovation Competition - Industrial innovation - Enterprise and Industry. The Second European Social Innovation Competition is closed since 11 December 2013. Take a look at the best ideas selected. The Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, invites Europeans to come up with new solutions to reduce unemployment and minimize its corrosive effects on the economy and our society both now and in the future. Social innovation is not only desirable, it is necessary. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t found the right investor for your ideas yet. We can help you bring your project to life as part of our Social Innovation Academy. But there's more. Don’t keep your great ideas to yourself. News & Video: The Innovation Debate 2012. Networking by numbers. RSA Connected Communities has started a new project with Nathan of the MIT Center for Civic Media to create a new, cost-effective way to measure the social impact of public services and civic interventions and to allow people to see their own personal networks.
We’re designing a mobile and tablet app for recording real-life social networks: your friends, families and contacts. The open source software we build will also be useful to journalists, ethnographers and anyone trying to make sense of rapidly changing social phenomena. Here I illustrate how we are currently recording this data, and why I think it is important that we change the way that we do it. What is data? A community researcher goes door to door. Back at the RSA HQ a data entry scribe enters these reams upon reams of human data. We have found that allowing people to see their own networks and understand them allows them to feel they can change them.
And so what? So over to you. Comments.
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