the role of the crowd in social innovation

Our

grandparents

generation

Our

parents

generation

- Our -

generation GAME OVER?

What-s the role

of Business?

Through we can achieve the triple bottom line:

Economic Viability

Environmental Quality

Social Equity

Prof. Muhammad Yunus

• Nobel Price Winner

• Board at the Grameen Bank

• Expert in Microcredit

CSR activities? Non Profits? Green Business? 1043 methods to assess Social Return of Investment

Vs.

DKK – Eastern Germany

What is the role of OPENNESS ?

Entrepreneurs NGOs Incubators Scholars GovernmentCitizens

Stakeholders Participation

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3 social entrepreneurs

40 Mentors from 23 countries1 month program

Crowd Mentoring for Social Change

The Shortlisted Projects

Coffee shop dedicated to social entrepreneurs in Cyprus.

▼ Nicosia, Cyprus

Making Spirulina a part of daily diets and utilizing otherwise unusable space

and land to cultivate healthy food.

▼ Bangkok, Thailand

An innovative social enterprise that produces the Village Ambulance to address

the medical transportation needs of rural communities.

▼ Kampala, Uganda

Step 1 - Hangout

Step 2 – Social Business Modeling

Step 2 – Social Business Modeling

Mentors have contributed with plenty of ideas,

feedback and solutions to the projects

Step 3 – Update on the Progress

The challenge shifted from the distribution channels

to the organic certification requirements

Continuous Improvement and faster iterations

Business

Modeling

Lean

Testing

Report

Progress

New

Challenges

Hangout

«The crowdmentoring helped me

to be more structured, and more

accountable: I liked the fact of

having deadlines and I received

precious help from the mentors»

MOOC on social Entrepreneurship

• 20.000 participants from 45 countries

• Combine theory with practice

• Prize to fund the best projects

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s t r a t e g i e s a n d

c o n t i n u o u s

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S k i l l s a n d r e s o u r c e s

w e r e a l l o c a t e d

a c c o r d i n g t o

p a r t i c i p a n t s ’ s k i l l s

a n d a t t i t u d e

What’s NEXT?

Piloting

Internal stakeholders

External Stakeholders

The role of the crowd in transforming Democracy

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