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The Importance of Local Knowledge
The value, transferability and creation of knowledge is a concept that is little understood. Most of our knowledge is tacit knowledge, meaning that it is difficult to articulate and expensive to share. Author Virginia Postrel discusses the difficulties of knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged acumen fund, dynamism, IDEO, local knowledge, ripple effect, virginia postrel
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Giving Thanks
Reflecting over the past year, I think I am most thankful for some of the amazing people who have entered my life since arriving in New York. (This feels a little like a book introduction, but its Thanksgiving so what … Continue reading
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The People’s Budget and Community Co-Creation
Participatory budgeting emerged in Porto Alegre, Brazil as a result severe inequality in living standards amongst city residents. Rather than putting bureaucrats in charge of budget allocation, community members identified spending priorities and then elected budget delegates to represent different communities. … Continue reading
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Tagged 49th Ward, community co-design, participatory budgeting, policy innovation
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Child Forced Labor, Visualized.
This data visualization is by the organization Anti-Slavery, and is the FastCo Design infographic of the day. A more detailed explanation of Brazilian forced child labor explains: Poor labourers in Brazil can be tricked into forced labour on rural estates in … Continue reading
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The Design Feedback Loop
From the free IDEO Human Centered Design Toolkit. A great resource for an organization creating a social innovation design intervention. Now I am just thinking about a way to add public policy into the equation…
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Public Policy Innovation
I am really excited about a link that my new friend Meena Kadri shared with me. It’s called Making Public Policy, a project of the Center for Urban Pedagogy and the project is a series of foldout posters that use graphic … Continue reading
Design Nations
In the spirit of my wasting several hours on a gorgeous day in New York City adding to the OpenIDEO platform on Global Innovation Challenge, here a great post by Tim Brown, IDEO co-founder, and design thinker / strategist, on design … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Law, Policy
Tagged Design, design thinking, IDEO, policy innovation, Tim Brown
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The World Freedom Atlas
This is an amazing interactive infographic that measures freedom around the world. Indicators are political rights, civil liberties, freedom status, electoral process, political pluralism and participation, and functioning of government. The site compiles a number of data sets (so that … Continue reading
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Paying Homage to a Truly Innovative Company
In 1998, Mexican building manufacturing giant CEMEX sent a team into the low-income community of Mesa Colorada to understand the barriers preventing families from obtaining their own home. What followed was the creation of the “Patrimonio Hoy” project, an … Continue reading
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