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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Innovation' (52)

Learn One

I found Amy Smith’s “Rules for Design in the Developing World” compelling. Instead of choosing one innovation, I’d like to combine two of Amy Smith’s. I think that her first: “Listen to the Right People” and her third: “Create Transparent Technologies” go hand in hand. I like the idea that in order to help people outside of our own immediate world, we must listen to what their day to day experience is like. No, I definitely cannot imagine what it is like to carry fifty pounds of firewood on my… Continue

Added by Karen Anderson Griscom on April 7, 2011 at 6:56pm — No Comments

LEARN1: Understand the Problem

Sometimes, when we are asked to help somebody, the issue to be solved is one in which we are not very used to. This is a problem because we don't know the real magnitude of the problem and what exactly the other part needs from us.

If we don't experience by ourselves the true nature of the problem, we won't be able to help in the correct way. Moreover, if we go and and try to solve it with the tools we know, and that we think are the best, we could make a big mistake and aggravate the…

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Added by Luis Wong on March 30, 2011 at 3:00am — 2 Comments

Imagine 1

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Added by A.V.Koshy on April 29, 2010 at 2:54am — No Comments

Learn 1- Hunger & food.

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Learn 1 -Ewoks are small but play a significant role.

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Added by A.V.Koshy on April 29, 2010 at 2:41am — 4 Comments

ACT 1

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Learn 1

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Innovation Secret

http://www.urgentevoke.com/page/social-innovation-learn

Personally, I feel that the seventh secret from Amy Smith is the most situation-changing facet of innovation in a developing country in the long run.

"Provide skills, not just finished technologies. The current revolution in design for developing countries is the notion

of co-creation, of teaching the skills necessary to… Continue

Added by Jeremy Heng on April 23, 2010 at 11:23am — No Comments

LEARN1Do the hard work needed to find a simple solution. As Leonardo da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”—and it is the key to this type of design workI am a firm believer in si…

LEARN1

Do the hard work needed to find a simple solution. As Leonardo da Vinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”—and it is the key to this type of design work

I am a firm believer in simplicity. A simple and clean solution to a complex problem takes real genius. Anyone can build on top of each other to create complex and… Continue

Added by paul on April 18, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Driving the miniaturized internal combustion engine vehicle

IMAGINE1

10 years from now, I… Continue

Added by paul on April 18, 2010 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments

ACT 1 -- Alchemy -- a mad impossible angel

I read a book a while back -- can't remember much about it, but one description stuck -- one of the protagonists was described as a "mad, impossible angel". In thinking about this mission and the characteristics I admire in social innovators, these three words kept echoing in my head -- Mad. Impossible. Angel. Of all of the innovators I could think of, Alchemy seems to fit this bill.

Mad -- social innovators see the world differently. Where some see challenges, innovators…

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Added by Robert Hawkins on April 17, 2010 at 1:29am — 4 Comments

Practical Social Innovation

I am a free-market technologist/hacker... in my quest for social innovation, the following ideals resonate with me::…

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Added by Stormstrong on April 14, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Social Innovation (1)

Well, that's the thing, isn't it: know the world and you know its weaknesses. One, of course, cannot introduce a thriving parasol market in Wales, and one cannot introduce charity-pressure to a poorer community. Work with what we have, but make it better. Nothing's magically going to improve, nothing is magically going to get worse though either: and single actions…

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Added by Samuel James Perry on April 12, 2010 at 5:15pm — No Comments

Social Innovation, 33 secrets-Learn

My favorite was number 6, "What you have matters more than what you lack (If you’ve got a bicycle, consider what you can build based on that, rather than worrying about not having a car, a truck, a metal shop.)" This is because it is incredibly realistic, and beneficial at the same time. If people are constantly working towards improving current things based on what they have to work with, small improvements will happen over time and acc**ulate to a big change. This is something many people… Continue

Added by Hardy Chen on April 12, 2010 at 4:43am — No Comments

ACT1 – Creative and Entrepreneurial Hero

ACT1 – Creative and Entrepreneurial Hero

(Can't get the formatting right on this thing! Sorry guys!)

Richard Saul Wurman…

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Added by Coffee_Clubber on April 11, 2010 at 7:57am — 4 Comments

Re-search

Paul Polak: "[If] somebody already invented it, you don’t have to."

I remember my first college class. It was an English class. And as it was a class geared toward writing, we got started right away. This was my first time really learning the finer points of research. It was at this time… Continue

Added by Kenneth Curnow on April 5, 2010 at 8:01pm — No Comments

[Social Innovation: Act] People who inspire me

This mission tells me to follow someone who is making a change in the real world so that (I assume) I can emulate them. There are many people that I follow who inspire me, and after going on a walk to collect my thoughts, I thought I'd write them down here.

TheAmazingAtheist: This guy is from youtube, and while he may be fat and crass and silly, he is also very outspoken about things he feels is unjust.…

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Added by LunarLight on March 30, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

[Social Innovation: Learn] My favorite secret

My favorite secret to being a great social innovator is number 5 on the third list: think like a child – children have no limit to their thinking. It's sort of true. X3

Added by LunarLight on March 30, 2010 at 5:43pm — No Comments

[Social Innovation: Imagine] Back off because things are about to get crazy

Ten years from now...

*ring ring*

"...Yes, what is it now?"

Erin pulls herself out from underneath her half finished product for collage, a fustrated look on her face. She doesn't like being disturbed when she's working. It appears to be some sort of green energy vehicle.

"Yes, yes? Hello?"

A shocked look comes over her face.

"Tokyo? Now? Are you kidding me? ...OF COURSE I'LL…

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