Tag: social innovation
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Canada’s crucial investment in tech and innovation
By Justin Trudeau PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA MAY 16, 2018 The world is in the throes of a huge shift to a knowledge-based economy, driven by the creation of ideas and their translation into commercial value. This shift presents us with an extraordinary opportunity. There’s the prospect of well-paying new jobs and potential solutions to…
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design techniques to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world. Businesses were the first to embrace this new approach—called design thinking—and nonprofits are beginning to adopt it too. In…
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Social Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, and Innovation in China and the United States
Blaring news headlines about a developing trade war between the governments of the United States and China lie in sharp contrast to the emerging partnerships developing between philanthropists and social entrepreneurs from the two countries. As I learned while on a recent delegation from Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) to Beijing there…
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6 Successful Social Innovation Projects
Brands with a conscience not only attract better talent and woo discerning consumers, they also wind up building communities and boosting the bottom line. As they say, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Social innovations are new strategies, concepts and ideas that meet the social needs of different elements…
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No future of work without social innovation
Labour markets have undergone significant change over the past decade, driven by a series of structural shifts: Traditional business models are being challenged by a new economic environment and emerging on-demand economy; our supply chains are now global, resulting in more outsourcing, project-based and online work; rising individualism has changed people’s attitudes to work;…
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Launch of the 2018 European Social Innovation Competition
Win one of the three €50,000 prizes for innovations empowering young people On 20th March, the 2018 edition of the European Social Innovation Competition was launched in Paris. The competition, run by the European Commission, aims to foster and showcase social innovations, ideas and projects across Europe. Under the heading RE:THINK LOCAL, this year’s edition…
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UNICEF’s Innovation Fund Backs Tech Start-Ups That Aim To Change The Lives Of Children In Need
Six start-up businesses providing solutions to improve children’s lives using frontier technologies such as data science, virtual reality (VR), drones and artificial intelligence (AI) will receive funding this year from UNICEF’s $12.6 million Innovation Fund. “Through the fund, UNICEF has the opportunity to shape the emerging technology market to benefit some of the world’s most…
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HireUp receives Government of Canada funding to combat youth homelessness
Incubated by Canada’s leading social innovation consultancy, Impakt, HireUp is now an independent social enterprise with a mission of helping to end youth homelessness by connecting employers to young people who are at-risk of or have lived experience of homelessness. The Government of Canada is funding the development of a platform to help provide economic…
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