Our new tag line Where Worlds Meet (credit to Anna Pearson there!) makes more and more sense to me. I mean, it always made sense, but these last few weeks when I reflected on all the conversations and meetings I had with various Point People, it was really brought to life.… Read more
At the beginning of April I attended the first of the Open Data Institute’s (ODI) Open Data In Practice Courses. I’m 10-months into two new initiatives that both have data as a core component and so I thought it would be useful to deepen my knowledge to play a better bridging role in producing them.… Read more
Our monthly horizon-scan…
Campaigning Innovation. It’s easy to lose sense of how we individually relate to major global issues when they don’t affect us directly. This month Amnesty New Zealand launched Trial By Timeline which addresses this. By taking our own personal footprint from facebook and contextualising this against the sometimes abstract issue of international human rights abuses the site is able to confront us with what our own experience of this might look like, with sound effects that engage the senses not just the rational brain. Storytelling like this is critical as the context we live in becomes ever more global and complex. Another great example of this in action is Greenpeace India’s Forest Hero Campaign.… Read more
‘The web is not tech, it is humanity linked by tech” - so said Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited as the inventor of the web as we know it. And with this thought, a day of exploring the emerging reality of the role of digital technology in creating social impact began.… Read more
This is a question which is almost impossible to answer. ‘There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding’, as said in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In this case study we’re going to tell you all about the dead ends, the mistakes, successes and what we learnt.… Read more
Systems innovation – what’s that all about then?
January saw the publication of not one, but two papers on systemic innovation, handily bundled together for easy reading. If you’re not sure what we’re talking about when we say ‘systems innovation’, this is a good place to start.… Read more
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably come here via the Point People landing page, in which case you have probably already asked yourself this question: is this a purposely female-only constituted group or is it just a coincidence?… Read more
None of us are working with just one organisation; but are linked with many and to one another in different ways. Our value comes from who we collaborate with and link to – across sectors, across worlds, operating at the edge and in the spaces in between.… Read more