crowdsourcing for global good - rise of student case competitions
DESCRIPTION
Crowdsourcing is an emerging trend that is now moving beyond its traditional domains powered by ease of technology, an increase in connectivity and the social media revolution. A large segment of the "Crowd" in Crowdsourcing initiatives are students that are oft ignored or underscored largely due to them being considered still-in-training. In this presentation, I argue for the importance of involving students and their fresh (unbiased) perspectives to solve some of the intractable problems that the world today faces. I call this the Student Dividend in CrowdSourcing and the time and demographic for doing global good has never been better.TRANSCRIPT
Crowdsourcing for Global Good – The Rise of Student Case Competitions
Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit- at Crowd Sourcing Week Copenhagen
16th Oct [email protected]
About Myself
• PAST – Hail from a remote region of
the North-East part of India – Shillong (also known as Scotland of the East)
– Masters in Biotechnology (IN)
– PhD in Biophysics & nanotechnology (DK)
– MBA in Sustainability (DK)– Researcher in Organizational
Innovation & Interdisciplinary Collaboration (DK)
• PRESENT– Head of Open Innovation
@AU Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
– Gamification researcher and practitioner
– University-Industry Network co-ordinator
– Entrepreneurship & Innovation Educator
– Expatriate Entrepreneurship researcher
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THE ERA of CONNECTIVITY
2020
4 Billion
Connected people
25+ Million
Apps25+
Billion Embedded &
Intelligent systems
50 Trillion
GBs of Data
Data Source: IDC, Intel, McCafe 2012
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GLOBAL PROBLEMS ARE ALSO RISING
Global Warming
Resource Scarcity
Economic InequalityMassive Unemployment
Global Poverty
Etc. Etc. Etc…….
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THE CHALLENGE OFGLOBAL POVERTY
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Total Human Population
Source: Worldmapper
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Total GDP wealth distribution
Source: Worldmapper
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Global Poverty
Source: Worldmapper
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Global Poverty map as defined by the world bank on less than US$ 1.5/day
Source: CIA Factbook 2008
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Presenting a more correct picture of poverty
Source: Alkire & Santos, 2010http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/mpi/
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Presenting a more correct picture of poverty
Source: Alkire & Santos, 2010
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BUT in HERE LIES THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL…
CROWDSOURCING enabled by TECHNOLOGY
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WHAT IS THE SINGLE THING THAT HAS
CHANGED AFRICA FOR AFRICANS TODAY MORE
THAN ANYTHING ELSE?
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Mobile tipped to grow 60% in Africa passing 1 billion subscriptions by 2016- November 2011, Informa (Matthew Reed)
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Global Poverty / Africa
Mobile in Africa is morepowerful than the west
Source: Graphic by Jon Gosier of Appfrica Labs
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Development/ Business
Development powered by Technology & people
Harassment of WomenEgypt
Source: http://harassmap.org/main?l=en_US
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CROWDSOURCING enabled by TECHNOLOGYhas the POWER to CHANGE THINGS
But WHO IS A MAJOR DEMOGRAPHIC OF THIS ”CROWD”
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BUT WAIT A SECOND…
Isn’t Education apparently the enemy of creativity?
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The Student DIVIDEND in crowdsourcing….
HIGH NUMBERS MOBILITY
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The Student DIVIDEND in crowdsourcing….
RESILIENCE
ABSENCE OF BIAS
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IGNITING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT…
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STUDENTS + ENTREPRENEURSHIP +
TECHNOLGY = WIN-WIN?
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A KEY INGREDIENT THAT IS STILL MISSING FROM THE EQUATION - PURPOSE
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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Filling the purpose gap…
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#SELFIE
Vs.
#CHARITY
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
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The data that I refer to is STUDENT CHALLENGES
i .e. STUDENT CASE COMPETITIONS WITHIN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Case competition Location Prize Started1 Hult Prize USA (Global) USD 1 Million Spring 20102 Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship Case
CompletitionBrigham Young University (National)
2010
3 Oikos case writing competition(educational case writing)
CHF 5000, 2000, 1000 2003
4 YYC Social Enterprise Case Competition
University of Calgary, Canada
Internship in Kenya 2014
5 Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition
Northwestern University (Global)
USD 5000 2007
6 VERB (Grew from DELL Social Innovation competition (DSIC) which ran from 2007 until 2013
USD 25000 2014
7 The Games for Change Challenge for students(digital game development with a cause)
Europe (Global) Invitation to series of professional events to showcase the game
2013
8 Hong Kong Social Entreprise Challenge (HKSEC) Hong Kong Implementation of the enterprise under mentorship.2 awards of upto HKD 60000
2007
9 The President’s Challenge Harvard (for Harvard school students and post-docs)
Mentoring the project in i-lab for top 10 teams. Grand prize USD 70000 and runners up share USD 30000.
2012
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A Social Entrepreneur is not a social worker!Social Entrepreneurship is not an NGO or NGO work!IT IS A BUSINESS – SOCIAL BUSINESS
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What is Social Entrepreneurship?
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Definition (Investopedia): “A person who pursues an innovative idea with the potential to solve a community problem”.
Some Notable Quotes:
“Social entrepreneurs are mad scientists in the lab,” - Pamella Hartigan, Director SCSE at Oxford University
“They’re harbingers of new ways of doing business.” - Forbes
“Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society's most pressing social problems” - Ashoka Fellows program
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“crowdsourcing brilliant solutions”For yourself (Start-ups)
“crowdsourcing brilliant solutions”For someone else (NGOs)
24/09/14Prize winner announced
29/10/14Early-Bird deadline
NEW CHALLENGE
18/11/142nd deadline
17/12/15Final deadline
9/01/15 Reg-Finalistsannounced
SELECTION SELECTION
17/12/15Regional Finals5 cities + online
01/05/15Accelerator start
01/08/15Accelerator Finish
23/09/15Final Pitches at CGI Annual
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That’s almost 1 YEAR of STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
That’s PURPOSE…
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2015 CHALLENGE
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Not a talk on Gamification (Speaker Prison alert)
Educator Version to be released in November 2014
The Entrepreneurship game – About Entrepreneurship, uncertainty and YOU