Updating Social Innovation By Design
Social innovation has stalled at a time when it is needed: How might we bring it back to life?
This is the second in a series that builds on a piece originally published on Medium.
A new dawn for social innovation could be upon us if we look closely. As outlined in an earlier article, social innovation has lost momentum and vitality. It doesn’t have the visibility it once had and, as a field, seems to have stalled. If it were because social innovation no longer had value, I’d be fine with that. That’s not a bad thing if the need for what social innovation brings is gone or if we’ve replaced the concept with something better.
Except we haven’t.
What do we do? I have some ideas. Let’s begin with what they are and then how we put them into action.
Means, Ends, and Methods
The means, ends, and methods of achieving the kind of reinvigoration that social innovation could use involve five areas connecting technology, people, projects, and outcomes:
- Reconnect with technology put into the hands of the public, leveraging the potential of AI. Social tools…
