Newsletter from Ashoka today had a link of how to change behaviour overnight…how to get people to walk up the stairs rather than take an escalator and how to get people to put their trash/rubbish in a trash can/bin…all courtesy of Volkswagen! Clever!
For the last few weeks I have working with Tom Lawrence on a workshop that explores the relationship between social innovation and social institutions. For more information on the workshop check out www.si2.ca
Just finished
teaching a course on Social Innovation at SFU. Here is a summary of the course – more than happy to provide commentary if interested!
All the credit for this drawing goes to Aftab Erfan at Whole Picture Thinking.
You might also want to check out Stewart Marshall’s post (a Financial Storyteller) – one of the guests to the final class.
Social innovation in the news..