Social Innovation

Jon Huggett Social Innovation eXchange Summer School

Adelaide, 28th November 2012

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Why Social Social Innovation?

We are here to discuss: “THE GROWING PAINS OF SOCIAL INNOVATION”

Social Innovation is growing …

… so why is this hard … what are the pains?

What might social innovation be when it grows up?

How can SIX “innovate” Social Innovation?

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My reflection from “Social-N” work with …

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Social iNNovation Social eNterprise Social iNvestment Social eNtrepreneur Social eNtrepreneurship Social iNtrapreneurship Social respoNsibility Social iNclusion Social veNtures Social fraNchising Social iNtelligence

Global interest in “Social Innovation”

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Ocean of social innovations

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Crowdsourcing Radical transparency

CSR to develop BoP products

Tough Mudder Grindr

Wikipedia Harlem Children’s Zone

Khan Academy Kunskapskolan Charter schools

Academies

Innovation in Social services

Innovation done Socially

Innovation in how we Socialize

Social Social Innovation?

TACSI Family by Family Sustainable city Curitiba

Hammarby Sjöstad eco-town

Facebook Texting

IM BBM

Avaaz Move On All Out

38 Degrees

Kiva Facial recognition

North Karelia Health

Kaboom

Twitter Web chat MySpace Skype

Mothers to Mothers

Tyze

Lonely Planet

Each kind of social innovation helps another

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“FB membership passes 1 billion”

10% pubs close each year

Car use down among young

October 2012

February 2012

Rail travel up in UK and USA

Large (personal) impact over decades

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1M

Huge systemic changes to the state

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“Protector”      

Source: Government with The People: The Outlines of a Relational State, Geoff Mulgan, 2012

“… a radical solution to the problem of declining public trust in governments: why don’t governments show greater trust in the people?”

Welfare state

“Provider”      

“Partner”      

Prey?      

“Passive”      

“Partner”      

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Big Society

Relational State

Why is this hard?

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Meritocratic leadership

Capital without revenue

Weak economies

of scale How to spread?

Can it pay its way?

Do leaders own the problem?

Michael Young coined “meritocracy” in 1950s to compare with plutocracy or aristocracy

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Predications of “Rise of the Meritocracy” went against the grain of its time

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Some 1958 predictions … 2012?

Pick for more top jobs by “merit” ✔

Increasing income inequality ✔

Falling social mobility ✔

Marginalization of working people ✔

Decline of working class politics ✔

Party of the left becomes “technocratic” ✔

Party of the right becomes “populist” ✔

House of Lord revived as “meritocratic” ✔

Do we have a crisis of “meritocracy”?

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“Meritocracy offered liberation from the unjust hierarchies of race, gender and sexual orientation, but swapped in their place a new hierarchy based on the notion that people are deeply unequal in ability and drive” Christopher Hayes, 2012

Can SIX explore “social” social innovation?

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Smart people doing

good things

Good people doing

smart things

Meritocratic

Hierarchical

Top-down

Interesting

“Growing pains”

Democratic

Fluid

Bottom-up

Systemic

“Grown-up”