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Adelaide - Free public lecture by Dan Hill, Helsinki Design Lab

Submitted by ASIXadmin on 20 October 2011 - 8:33pm

 

Recipes for Systemic

16 November 2011 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Location

Hetzel Lecture Theatre
Cnr North Terrace & Kintore Avenue
Adelaide, SA 5000
Australia
34° 55' 17.3244" S, 138° 36' 6.6528" E
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Sydney Leadership 2012 - Information Session 1

Submitted by Social Leadersh... on 2 August 2011 - 1:26pm

CHALLENGE YOURSELF. CHANGE YOUR WORLD

Come and find out about Social Leadership Australia's flagship, award-winning Sydney Leadership program, which is now open for applications for 2012.

Unleash your true potential to lead change and create lasting social impact, in your organisation and in the world.

6 September 2011 - 7:30am - 9:00am
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What is the Point of Social Innovation

Submitted by msweeks on 19 July 2011 - 9:22am

UK innovation writer, thinker and practitioner Charlie Leadbeater was recently back in Australia.  Among his engagements he contributed to another in the series of Social Innovator Dialogues, co-hosted by CSI, the Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX) and the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI).  I didn’t get to the Adelaide and Melbourne sessions but I did help to design and host the session in Sydney where Charlie was joined by Matthew Landauer from Open Australian, Chris Quigley from digital democracy outfit Delib.co.uk and Tom Bentley, PM Gillard’s Deputy Ch

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Gathering '11: To Build Better Futures

Submitted by davidahood on 24 May 2011 - 8:26pm

 

11 June 2011 - 8:30pm - 13 June 2011 - 5:00pm

Location

Abbotsford Convent
1 St. Heliers Street
Abbotsford, VIC
Australia
Phone: 0413124427
37° 48' 7.8192" S, 145° 0' 13.6116" E
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Event with Charles Leadbeater - Dying for Change: Innovations in End of Life Care

Submitted by Kerrie on 17 May 2011 - 10:56am

"To allow people the deaths they want,

end of life care must be radically transformed..."

 

Dying for Change: Innovations in end of Life Care

13 June 2011 - 12:30pm - 6:30pm

Location

Cancer Council NSW
153 Dowling St
Woolloomooloo, NSW
Australia
33° 52' 26.4648" S, 151° 13' 13.9908" E
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Social Innovation in Indigenous Australia

A forum for ideas and actions relating to social innovation and entrepreneurship in Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander communities.

In stark contrast to the quality of life enjoyed by the majority of the broader Australian community, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders experience considerable and multiple disadvantage in terms of any and every indicator, be it livelihoods, economic development, wellbeing or social inclusion.

Area of interest: 
Community belonging and volunteering
Education and employment
Indigenous issues
Poverty, wealth
Service design and public sector
Urban and rural innovation
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Report: Learning from the Extremes

Submitted by totocol on 4 May 2011 - 9:43pm

This report written by Charles Leadbeater and Annika Wong outlines four basic strategies governments in the developing and developed world can pursue to meet these challenges: improve, reinvent, supplement, and transform schools and learning

Resource type: 
Tool/knowledge/Education
Link: 
Link to report
Area of interest: 
Education and employment
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Video: Charles Leadbeater talking about education innovation in the slums

Submitted by ASIXadmin on 4 May 2011 - 9:22pm

In this Ted Talk, Charles Leadbeater talks about his quest looking for radical new forms of education. His quest took him the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become.

Resource type: 
Tool/knowledge/Education
Audiovisual resource
Area of interest: 
Education and employment
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Last week to apply for one of six Big Green Idea $10,000 or $20,000 grants from the British Council

Submitted by Goody Two Shoes on 3 May 2011 - 4:33pm

Hi A-fullyS-IK- Xs peeps, 

Just letting you know/reminding you about the British Council Big Green Idea grants. There are six of them and some are for $20k and others are for $10k. 

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Report: How Shared Spaces are changing the world

Submitted by totocol on 3 April 2011 - 9:58pm

How Shared Spaces are changing the world is a report published by the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto describing their own experiences on how shared spaces are changing the world. 

 

 

Resource type: 
Tool/knowledge/Education
Service
Other
Link: 
Link
Area of interest: 
Community belonging and volunteering
Service design and public sector
Urban and rural innovation
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