catalyzing innovation for all, by all: innovation for inclusive development

Catalyzing innovation for all, by allInnovation for Inclusive Development

Grace SantosProgram Manager, UNIID-SEAAteneo School of Government

Delivered to students of COM104: Designing Media that Matters

Innovation

New or improved ways of thinking or doing things in a place where or by people for whom they have not been used before.

New ideas, perspectives, technologies, and meaningful social arrangements and relationships.

Innovation and Development

Integral to innovation is the successful combination/ integration of technical devices and practices (hardware), knowledge and modes of

thinking (software) and social institutions and forms of organization (orgware). -- Smits, 2000; Aarts and Leeuwis, 2011

Innovation and Development

Innovation and DevelopmentEvident advancement of societies

Innovation and DevelopmentTHE REAL SCORE: Emerging Economies, Rising

Inequality

More than a billion people still living in multi-dimensional poverty.

In SEA, Gini coefficients of SEA countries range from .34 – .44.

INNOVATION FOR WHOM?

A 2011 report from Oxfam International-Philippines identified Filipino fishermen and farmers as the poorest sectors of Philippine society.

“The great paradox is that they are surrounded by the means to produce food, and yet they are the most vulnerable to hunger.”

FOR WHAT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT?

In reality, there is a DISCONNECTION between INNOVATION and DEVELOPMENT

• Social justice, equity and human rights are not deeply embedded in innovation systems and processes.

• Development equated with economic, industrial growth; human development only secondary.

Shift to Innovation 2.0Innovation from

Below“Bottom of the Pyramid Innovation” (Prahalad, 2002)

“Below-the-Radar Innovation” (Kaplinski, 2010)

“Grassroots Innovation” (Gupta, 2003)“Social Technologies”

(Fressoli, Smith et.al, 2011)

In essence, pertains to innovation that harnesses and builds on local and indigenous knowledge, skills and resources, and actively engages non-traditional innovators -- indigenous communities, poor and vulnerable sectors, marginalized groups.

A new perspective: Innovation for Inclusive Development

(IID)

“innovation that reduces poverty and enables as many groups of people,

especially the poor and vulnerable, to participate in decision-making, to

create and actualize opportunities, and to share the benefits of development.”

Solution seeking Creative

Open & Engaging

CommunityCentered

A new perspective: Innovation for Inclusive Development

(IID)

IID provides opportunities not only to overcome physical,

social, financial, and technical barriers

but also to foster transformation in systems and

institutions, and ultimately, improvement

in the quality of life of all.

GOVERNMENT

UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY / FIRM

Inclusive model of innovation

CIVIL SOCIETY, POOR & VULNERABLE

COMMUNITIES

• Regional initiative supported by IDRC from 2008-2011.• Documented and assessed the potential of S&T-based innovation as a means to effectively address socio-economic needs of those at the BoP in SEA.• Illustrated various levels of engagement with those at the BoP.

Illustrative Cases

26Projects

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5Intermedia

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INTERMEDIARY-PARTNERS 2008-2010

Action for Economic Reforms(Philippines)

WATER & SANITATION

Aqueous Solutions(Thailand)

A Single Drop for Safe Water(Philippines)

HEALTH

ENERGY

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

WARECOD(Vietnam)

Gadjah Mada University(Indonesia)

Live & Learn(Cambodia)

WAND Foundation(Philippines)

MicroVentures, Inc(Philippines)

University of Padjadjaran(Indonesia)

Don Bosco Technical College(Philippines)

EcoAgri Foundation, Inc.(Philippines)

University of Indonesia(Indonesia)

Institute of Policy and StrategyFor Agriculture and Rural Development (Vietnam)

Kahublagan Sang Panimalay(Philippines)

Philippine Rice Research Institute(Philippines)

SETARA/NTFP Indonesia(Indonesia)

TRICOM, Inc.(Philippines)

ICT & BUSINESS AGRICULTURE & FOOD

Computer Professionals Union(Philippines)

(Singapore)

Institut Teknologi Bandung(Indonesia)

Philippine Business for Social Progress(Philippines)

VIETNET-ICT and CommunicationCenter (Vietnam)

WorldFish Centre (Philippine Office)

Philippine Rice Research Institute(Philippines)

Sub-Plant Protection DepartmentAn Giang Province (Vietnam)

INTERMEDIARY-PARTNERS 2008-2010

ISDA.MOBI: Mobile phone interface for small-scale fishers WorldFish Centre, PHILIPPINES

• Prototyping and pilot-testing of a mobile phone interface that enables fisherfolk and the Bantay Dagat in the Verde Island Passage, Batangas to contribute information to the FishBase database of the WorldFish Centre.• Level of community engagement: Proactive

Illustrative Cases

SnT IN A BOXComputer Professionals’ Union, PHILIPPINES

• Development of a free and open-source software teaching aid (www.opensciencebox.org) for basic science and math teachers in public schools.• Level of community engagement: Interactive

Illustrative Cases

ECOLIFE VILLAGE CAFEVietnet-ICT and Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development, VIETNAM

• Designing and setting up a community enterprise and information center that promotes eco-tourism and resiliency to climate change.• Level of community engagement: Community Mobilization

Illustrative Cases

WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM for FLOATING COMMUNITIES Live & Learn Environmental Education, CAMBODIA

• Prototyping and pilot-testing of a floating waste management barge in Tonle Sap that enables reuse of human waste into organic fertilizer. • Level of community engagement: Community Mobilization

Illustrative Cases

Importance of community engagement Facilitating deep dialogue Building shared commitment Capability development Management of risks

Key Insights

Key Insights

Critical role of innovation intermediaries Enabling active engagement of grassroots communities, informal/excluded groups in innovation and development initiatives and processes. Connecting them to recognized institutions, systems and markets to gain access to technologies, services and resources that address their specific needs.

Key Insights

Policy as catalystPolicies (institutional, national, regional) that will enable open innovation, sectoral collaboration, and empowerment at the grassroots.

IN A NUTSHELL:

Community Engagement + Intermediaries + Supporting Policy

are the pillars that support IID, and are key to ensuring the appropriateness, accessibility, scalability and sustainability of such innovation efforts.

Key Insights

IID Advocacy, Capability- and

Partnership-building

• Teaching• Research• Extension

UNIVERSITIES• Setting R&D agenda• Grant-making• Policy development

RESEARCH COUNCILS

A follow-up program that will run 2012-2014 that aims to:

UNIID-SEA’s work with universities is primarily focused on IID RESEARCH and FIELD-BUILDING.

What we are doing now

RESEARCH & CONVENINGResearch studies, talks, conferences and workshops on

IID

CURRICULUM

Development of Undergraduate and Graduate

Courses/ Programs on IID

Open COURSEWAREDevelopment of an

IID knowledge sharing hub

FACILITATE DISCUSSION, SHARING, COLLABORATIVE

LEARNING of IID

What we are doing now

Current work with universities

Ateneo School of GovernmentDevelopment Studies ProgramDepartment of Information Systems and Computer ScienceAteneo Innovation Center

Graduate Program on Technopreneurship and Innovation Management

Department of Science and Technology Studies

International Relations Office

School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development

What we are doing now: University Partners

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