What Does Social Innovation Look Like Today

What Does Social Innovation Look Like Today2016SONAL SHAHBeeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation at Georgetown UniversityCALEB HARPEROpen Agriculture (OpenAG) Initiative, MIT Media LabSCOT CHISHOLM& PAT WALSHClassy.org

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Eating Digital : Crowdsourcing the 4th Agricultural Revolution

Lets talk about the world of food as it is today

SPEAKER NOTES : lets talk about the world of food as it is today

The countries represented in green are food secure, meaning they can produce enough food within their own countries to feed their domestic population.

The countries represented in red have varying degrees of food insecurity, meaning they can not produce enough food within their own countries to feed their domestic population.

If you layer the last two slides together you find that many countries, represented here in purple, are both food insecure and also leasing or selling land within their borders for producing food for other countries. We call this FOOD COLONIZATION.

SPEAKER NOTES: If you layer the last two slides together you find that many countries, represented here in purple, are both food INSECURE and also leasing or selling land within their borders for producing food for OTHER countries, we call this FOOD COLONIZATION

If you over lay the previous image with the global import/export relationships for food that already exist, we begin to see how future wars for foods might not be as far away as some might think, and in fact the militarization of food has already begun.

SPEAKER NOTES: If you over lay the previous image with the GLOBAL import/export relationships for food that already exist, we begin to see how future wars for foods might not be as far away as some might think, and in fact the militarization of food has already begun.

The average apple you see in the supermarket is actually 14 months old.

What is missing in agriculture is an open source platform to empower the 7 Billion to askwhat if ?

What if in the next 30 years

What if climate was democratic?

What if you could email a tomato?

Japanese agriculture has no money, no youth, no future-Hitoshi Suzuki, 57, 450-year-old family farm operatorAs of 2008 less than2 percentof the US population is directly employed in agriculture-USDA50% of the population of Africa is under 18, 80% of those young people do not want to be farmers-African Green Revolution AllianceWith no basic or minimum infrastructure, farmer families find their way into the city-K Mohan, a representative of the Rythu Swarajya Vedika.

What if there were 1B more successful farmers?

Revolutionary Personal Platforms

LINUX Foundation

Coder movement(access to hardware)

Maker movement(access to software)(access to information and markets)Network movement(access to biology, bio is the new digital)Food movement

Open Agriculture Tools:

Food Labs (create knowledge)

Food OS (create information)

Food WEB (create a sharing network)

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