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The late Elinor Ostrom: Cooperative action by users is almost always better than private sector or state action

Submitted by Vern on 20 June 2012 - 1:48pm

Elinor Ostrom died on June 12. She received the Noble Prize in Economics in 2009 for her life's work. She showed through study after study that co-operative action by users is almost always better than private sector or state action. Her 30 minute lecture on the supremacy of self-organised systems over markets and states is here on the nobelprize site.
http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1223

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Charlie Leadbeater on users, consumers and people-powered change

Submitted by Vern on 29 January 2012 - 11:34am

In this talk, Charlie Leadbeater argues that innovation is increasingly not the business of professionals and R&D labs and companies. It is the business of passionate amateurs, service users and consumers, or as he calls us, 'pro-ams' (professional amateurs).

This talk is a major challenge to the professional and consultancy-based hi-jacking of the social innovation agenda in Australia. http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation.html#.TyPjIRbRpzE.facebook

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Who are social innovators and change-makers?

Submitted by Vern on 13 April 2011 - 1:58am
I recently had a look through the people profiled on the ASIX website as change-makers. I wanted to see how socially diverse and occupationally broad are the "change-makers".
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