In a new collection of essays published by LGiU, the Local Government Information Unit, Jonathan Carr-West argues that English local government is at a crossroads. Funding has been cut and challeng...
Social Innovation Camp (http://sicamp.org/) is an institution allowing for cooperation of ‘software developers and those with an understanding of a social problem to help them start and grow ...
The second Eastern Europe Initiatives Congress (EEIC) will be held in Lublin (Poland), 1-6 October 2013. EEIC is a meeting of the representatives of local governments, central governments, non-gove...
The need for more sustainability and responsible conduct in the finance and banking sector has moved into the focus of attention only in the last few years – not just in the aftermath of the ...
The Commission in their effort to enhance the visibility of successful Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities and to disseminate good practices, launched the European CSR Award Scheme for...
The «Social Innovation Relay» competition is the largest global educational initiative. This worldwide, interactive, web-based competition challenges young students, ages 15 through 19,...
Earlier this year, Unicef in Sweden launched a new campaign with the tagline: "Like us on Facebook and we will vaccinate zero children against Polio". It was accompanied by a video of a y...
“Just say yes” was the motto of the congress we attended the previous month in the UK city of Culture for 2013 Derry/ Londonderry. A really interesting and inspirational conference orga...
Social innovation is about new solutions that simultaneously meet a social need and enhance society’s capacity to act. Therefore, novelty is not enough. There must be a social purpose and the...
In a recent supplement to the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Francis Westley argues that social innovation and resilience are mutually enhancing. Westley is an expert on the subject and leads t...
