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Alexa Clay,
Ashoka's Changemakers
What do pirates, terrorists, computer hackers, and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Vall...
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What do pirates, terrorists, computer hackers, and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Valley? Innovation.
In this talk, you’ll be exposed to emerging forms of underground innovation happening in the informal and black market economies. The “deviant entrepreneurs” that make up the black market are not mere threats to our social and economic stability, but also present us with real best practices that can be applied to business thinking.
Global / International Issues Black Market, Social Innovation
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Keith Hammonds,
Ashoka
The world is moving rapidly from centralized, hierarchical organizations to a network of networks. B...
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The world is moving rapidly from centralized, hierarchical organizations to a network of networks. But much of our information remains holed up in silos determined by professional expertise, economic motive, or simply inertia. How do we liberate this information such that it is freely available and easily shared? Hail the emerging “information commons” – an online solution rooted in the conceit that information has more value shared than hoarded. Jake Shapiro and Stephen Friend are building the information commons from disparate perspectives, with very different stakes. Jake’s context is public media, dominated by a few producers and distributors; Stephen’s is scientific research, where data typically is trapped in academic labs. If Jake succeeds, more people will get more diverse, and higher quality, media. Stephen’s model ultimately would deliver better medical outcomes. Both depend on vanquishing the “tyranny of experts.”
Content / Content Strategy democratization, Information commons, information networks
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Benjamin Wald,
Ashoka Changemakers
All entrepreneurs live and breathe a core set of principles that propel them to success. From Adam S...
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All entrepreneurs live and breathe a core set of principles that propel them to success. From Adam Smith’s insights into specialization to emerging concepts of Lean Thinking, rapid iteration, and Zen entrepreneurship, philosophies provide vital frameworks for entrepreneurs to approach value creation. In this panel, we explore leading entrepreneurs underground philosophies, paying specific attention to the disruptive Open Growth philosophy being pioneered in the field of social entrepreneurship. Moving beyond crowdsourcing, Open Growth reflects the next frontier for fostering entrepreneurial community and marketplace.
Greater Good / Charity / Nonprofit Entrepreneurship, Innovation methods, Social Entrepreneurship
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Delyse Sylvester,
Ashoka Changemakers
How can your company attach its profile to a transformational trend?
By rejecting CSR for a co-des...
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How can your company attach its profile to a transformational trend?
By rejecting CSR for a co-designed experience with consumers that involves them in creating and disseminating the brand's social strategy.
Ashoka's Changemakers has helped companies like Nike and National Geographic to accelerate their sectors and activate communities of changemakers around their brand.
During this workshop, you will learn how to:
Form long-term values-driven relationships with consumers;
Build communities of problem solvers around your brand's core assets; and
Move consumers from a point of awareness to one of action.
Ashoka Changemakers has run more than 50 community-driven, global competitions with partners including Google, eBay, Nike and National Geographic, which have sourced 10,700 innovations and leveraged $600M in funding.
Greater Good / Charity / Nonprofit community engagement, open source, Social Innovation
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