1. Maksym Klyuchar, UNDP Ukraine
A do-it yourself approach to improved community
results
Social Innovation and
Collaborative Design
2. Themes for discussion
• Social innovation and co-design: introduction
• Let’s cheat!
• Nuts, bolts and sketches for design
3. (1) Social Innovation
• Innovation = new for this situation, location or
application. Think Home Grown Initiatives.
• Social dimension is key: by the people for the people
• Not necessarily digital
• Sometimes discover the new in the old => like…
inventing the wheel!
4. (1) Social Innovation
Benefits
• Social innovator (opportunities to build skills, “warm
glow”, funds from monetization if built properly)
• Community (better services or experiences, feeling of
purpose, stronger social fabric)
• Government (efficient utilization of resources, sharing
responsibility, image booster)
• Businesses (new markets, public-private partnerships,
devoted clientele)
5. (1) Collaborative Design
• One of the ways to engage in social innovation
• Joining efforts of government, civil society, citizens,
businesses to jointly come up with the best solution to a
problem
6. (1) Social innovation – some basics
• A good itch to scratch – you know best where your shoe
hurts you most
12. (1) Social innovation – some basics
• Please… Please? Please!!!
• Bear in mind your users… Their behavior, likes and
dislikes, as well as communication modes (do they
actually read the newspaper that you advertised in?)
19. (2) Let’s cheat!
• No matter the tool, remember the “itch”. It determines
success
• Remember the wheel? New in the old.
• Think in terms of “by the people for the people”. This is
best described by principles of human-centered design
20. (3) Nuts, bolts and sketches for design
• Toolkits and toolsets
http://www.designkit.org/ http://diytoolkit.org/
29. (3) Nuts, bolts and sketches for design
Prototyping / Co-design funnel
30. (3) Nuts, bolts and sketches for design
Some things to remember
1. Focus on the problem, not the product
2. Bridge the digital divide
3. Don’t pitch, prototype
4. Make space and allow ideas to grow – haste makes
waste