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The Social Innovation Europe [63] initiative, funded by the European Commission's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, was set up to map social innovation at a European level, by creating a directory of grass-roots examples of social innovation from across the 27 member states.
The publication was founded in 2003 by the Center for Social Innovation (CSI), a Hewlett Foundation grantee [3] at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Now, SSIR receives about 2.5 million total unique visitors annually. Outside of the US, the site receives the most traffic from Canada, India, the UK, the Philippines, and Australia.
The White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation seeks to facilitate social innovation by harnessing human capital and facilitating the flow of financial capital. Based on evidence that communities with higher degrees of civic health exhibit better economic resilience, lower jobless rates, and faster returns to the workforce ...
Using wiki models or crowdsourcing approaches, for example, a social entrepreneur organization can get hundreds of people from across a country (or from multiple countries) to collaborate on joint online projects (e.g., developing a business plan or a marketing strategy for a social entrepreneurship venture).
Social technology is a way of using human, intellectual and digital resources in order to influence social processes. [2] For example, one might use social technology to ease social procedures via social software and social hardware, which might include the use of computers and information technology for governmental procedures or business ...
A social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital by founding social ventures, including charities, for-profit businesses with social causes, and other non-government organizations. These types of activities are distinct from work of non-operating foundations and philanthropists who provide funding and other support ...
Although these previous examples only show a few of the positive aspects of technology in society, there are negative side effects as well. [6] Within this virtual realm, social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat have altered the way Generation Y culture is understanding the world and thus how they view themselves. In ...
A cultural invention is any innovation developed by people. [1] Cultural inventions include sets of behaviour adopted by groups of people. They are perpetuated by being passed on to others within the group or outside it. They are also passed on to future groups and generations. [2]