Innovation workshop

1. Innovation for System
Change and Reform
Partners in Recovery
Sydney North Shore and Northern Beaches
Anne-Marie Elias
Twitter: @ChiefDisrupter
ChiefDisrupter@anne-marieelias.com

2. Social Innovation
"A social innovation is a novel solution to a Social problem
that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than present
solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to
society as a whole rather than private individuals."
Stanford, Centre for Social Innovation.

3. Innovation
Resourceful
Reflective
Creative
Responsive
Adaptive
Collaborative
User designed
Disruptive

4. PIR doing it
 Celebrate your successes
 Innovative user centred projects and programs
 Pet therapy
 Greenway wellbeing clinic
 Hording
 Carers coordination
 Crowd funded data collection
 Time to leverage more
 Data visualisation (NICTA)
 Hackathon (Hack for Mental Health )
 Meet Ups
 Social Innovation pitch

5. Barriers to Innovation
 Process
 Bureaucracy
 Insular – doing it alone
 Tai Chi in cement
 Overcoming resistance to change
 Change performance measurement system
 Willingness to collaborate (across sectors and disciplines)
 Create tolerance for failure

6. Innovation is a mindset
 Change the culture
 Courage to bring outside talent, new voices
 Mavericks step up to the plate
 Disruptive Innovation
 Simple, more accessible and affordable
 Transform existing markets – points of frustration in the market
 Gaps like employment, isolation, activity, psychological distress
 Person centred, user design

7. Innovation
 Flip the way we look at a problem
 Collaborate broadly
 Leverage untapped resources and social capital all around us

8. Social Innovation Pitch Event Format
Digital
Inclusion
Wilcannia
Work readiness
Menindee
 We need help with….
 This will solve a local problem by ……
 To make this happen we need …..
Community Pitches
Community Building teams around pitches
NGOs, 3 levels of government, Business
We commit our TME, TALENT, RESOURCES and MICROFUNDS to
support social innovation projects
OUTPUTS/OUTCOMES
Teams to support
projects
established

9. WINGS YOUTH CENTRE, WILCANNIA NSW
Social Innovation Pitch Event, Broken Hill, NSW
CALL OUT
What we need…
1. Desktop computers and tablets – 10 x each
2. Cabling, modems and accessories
3. Apps and programs for the children and teenagers, ranging from games,
safety in the home, nutrition, cyber safety, to sex education
Issue for our region : Connectivity for digital inclusion
OFFERS SO FAR
Twitter call out:
- one 11 inch MacBook Air (base 64GB)
- two laptops
- 6x desktop PC's, PC with power and network cables etc,..(no Screens) -
- Premier and Cabinet and FACS may be able to help with computers
- Shout Out to Australian Independent schools for computers and tablets
- Ongoing advocacy on digital access
THE GOAL #RemoteDigitalInclusion
• To support children and young people in
Wilcannia to access health, education and
vocational information and games.
• To aim for digital inclusion of remote
communities for economic opportunities.
CAN YOU HELP?
1. Freight transport for donated computers and
equipment from Sydney to Wagga, Wilcannia or
Broken Hill
2. 10 Tablets
3. Cabling, network connection
4. Programs, apps and games for health and
education.
@ChiefDisrupter
www.Anne-MarieElias.com
THE PITCH
Outcomes
CALL OUT

10. Rapid prototype – Capacity Building
 GROUP WORK
 Apply Innovation
 Pitch the idea
 Vote on the best model

11. Rapid prototype
 Time limited process – minimise the time to try Tom Chi
 Not too much thinking
 Collaborative
 Resourceful
 Disruptive – start with the vision
 You are not trying to improve what is, you are trying to create new ideas

12. The Pitch
 Time limited process – minimise the time to try Tom Chi - Google
 Not too much thinking – just do it
 Collaborative
 Creative
 How can this support and innovate system change

13. Thank You
 Anne-Marie Elias, Social Change Connector, Innovator, Strategist
 Associate, UTS Centre for Local Government and Centre for Design Innovation
 ChiefDisrupter@anne-marieelias.com
 0418236546
 www.anne-marieelias.com
 Blog: https://disrupter4change.wordpress.com/
 Twitter: @ChiefDisrupter