by vishayapracy | Sep 7, 2017 | Coders / Hackers, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Hackathons, Social Impact, Social Innovation
We believe: Big challenges require less time to solve than we imagine Teams with focused expertise can create better solutions than committees Together, we have all the resources we need to build, test and scale the solutions to wicked problems The best time to start...
by vishayapracy | May 1, 2017 | Conferences, Digital Transformation, Events, Future of Work, Social Impact, Women
Photo credit: @georgiecel In early March, women around the world commemorated the movement for women’s liberation and voiced their right to be in control of their lives and of the future of the world. The theme for International Women’s Day 2017 was ‘Women in...
by vishayapracy | Feb 5, 2017 | Digital Disruption, Innovation, Social Impact, Startups
A few weeks ago I watched this YouTube video of a younger, Jack Ma, presenting in a non-descript room to a few colleagues. The presentation was from a time before Alibaba became the global ecommerce powerhouse that it is today. It was 1999 and Ma was setting a vision...
by vishayapracy | Nov 8, 2016 | Events, Hackathons, Social Impact, Social Innovation
In almost any field of endeavour, leaders and innovators are constantly grappling with notions of “the future” and rapidly creating new pathways for current and future generations to perceive, grasp and take advantage of opportunities. But in almost every...
by vishayapracy | Oct 19, 2016 | Coders / Hackers, Digital Disruption, Innovation, Social Impact, Social Innovation
Social innovation can refer to a range of different developments, ideas and solutions that strengthen human society. Thinkable and Hitachi have teamed up to award $15k in seed funding for ideas within the categories of Smart Cities, Connected Health, Mining and Smart...
by vishayapracy | May 7, 2016 | Handbooks, Innovation, Social Business, Social Impact
Creating innovation workshops, toolkits and processes can be hard work. It’s not just a matter of sitting down and writing out a few exercises in the hope that some kind of magic will take place. It requires planning, creativity – and empathy. It requires you thinking...
