Explore other sites with multiple resources related to Social Innovation
Below you will find a number of sites with multiple tools and resources related with Social Innovation. Click through the gallery then select the site name you wish to visit and you will be redirected to the site.
*Please, bear in mind that the tools and resources listed below have been collected from open source web pages. All trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights, personality rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in this area are the property of their respective owners.
Art of Hosting
This space is both a connection place and a place where people can deepen their practice by: Finding and posting resources (library of videos under Media, written materials under Resources); Asking questions, starting conversations and sharing experiences and stories – under Conversations; Starting or joining a group with a focus; Posting a notice of your upcoming Events in the community calendar.
Business Model Toolbox
The Business Model Toolbox offers free access to knowledge and information to design and innovate business models. The aim is to foster successful and sustainable innovation through diverse tools, methods and approaches. It offers different business model patterns as inspiration to design revenue streams, value proposition, product strategy, or other parts of the business model responsibly and also inspiring stories about well-known companies and little-known companies.
Complexity University
Complexity University is a platform that provides teams with practical, hands-on support for learning how to tackle complex social challenges. The tools and methodologies are based on a 20-year practice based on social labs. This platform is design to rapidly build widespread capabilities amongst teams for devising effective responses to complex social challenges.
Design Methods for developing services
If you’re new to service design: You can use it to familiarise yourself with a typical process that designers use when developing products and services. It will give you an idea of what to expect from working with a designer. If you’re a designer: You may be familiar with all of this already, but you may find this document useful when explaining common service design methods to others that are new to them.
Design Kit
An interactive webpage that helps to design human-centered solutions that are tailor made to suit their needs. There are three main resources: Tools for the Inspiration where you’ll learn directly from the people you’re designing for as you immerse yourself in their lives. Tools for the Ideation where you’ll make sense of what you learned, identify opportunities for design, and prototype possible solutions and finally the Implementation where you’ll bring your solution to life.
Design Thinking Bootleg
The d.school helps people develop their creative abilities. This collection of resources helps to unlock creative thinking in whatever challenge you’re tackling. The Design Thinking Bootleg is a set of tools and methods developed by teaching team members, students, as well as designers. It’s a deck of cards that can be used digitally or print the pdf and make it into a deck. There are five “modes” identified as components of design thinking: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
edX Platform- Enabling Entrepreneurs to shape a better world
A platform that offers MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in collaboration with many of the most renowned universities worldwide. More precisely, the course “Enabling Entrepreneurs to shape a better world” is a 6 weeks online course provided by the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie with an estimated effort of 4 to 6 hours per week that allows social entrepreneurs to acquired the latest tools and social impact insights to develop their own entrepreneurial potential.
Frog Collective Action Toolkit
A set of activities and methods that enable groups of people anywhere to organise, collaborate, and create solutions for problems affecting their community. It consists of an action map and activities arranged into six activity areas. These activities offer different ways to develop solutions to make change happen in a community. This toolkit is for people who want to work with groups in their community to: Solve problems, Build new skills or Gain Knowledge.
GeoFundos
A Portuguese platform that brings together all the national and international funding opportunities available to the entities and initiatives of the Social Economy. Here it can be found the information needed about the various funding opportunities that exist for entities or initiatives that need funding resources. Through a strict segmentation process, the search of these funding opportunities is simple, fast and personalised.
Hyper Island Toolbox
This Hyper Island Toolbox is a resource for anyone who wants to do things more creatively and collaboratively in their team or organization. It’s a collection of methods and activities, based on Hyper Island’s methodology. Hyper Island is a creative business school with consulting services which enables individuals and organizations to see, understand and act upon the opportunities created by digital and technological evolution.
Service Design Tools
An open collection of communication tools used in design processes that deal with complex social systems.The tools are displayed according to the design activity (WHEN) they are used for, the kind of representation (HOW) they produce, the recipients (WHO) they are addressed to and the contents (WHAT) of the project they can convey. All the about 35 diverse tools are indexed according to the above Design Activities; Representations, Recipients and Contents.
Social Innovation Academy
This course provides state-of-the-art tools, insights, frameworks and learning about how to put ideas into practice and make social change become real. The course spans the entire scope of social innovation- form becoming an active citizen to creating, funding and implementing your own solutions to the societal challenges. Seven systematic, targeted, practice-driven and simple yet comprehensive course modules will guide entrepreneurs through the entire cycle of social innovation.
Social Innovation Kit
A toolkit that takes innovators through a journey of problem definition and ideation all the way through to scaling. The toolkit covers the essential building blocks of building a social venture, structured according to the innovation spiral, covering issues such as framing a problem, prototyping, revenue generation, stakeholder engagement and communications, sustainability and impact measurement.
Strategy for Change
The project is intended to collect information about projects, training materials, case studies, resources and tools on social innovation from students and serve as a portal to view other initiatives in an interactive manner. This web page is particularly aimed at early stage projects and encompasses a suite of tools that aim to support entrepreneurs along the whole journey. Many of the projects shared are either fully developed case studies or ideas that were in their infancy and prototyping state.
Transformative Practices Platform
A platform designed to collect and connect methods, tools and individual’s expertise and interest in engaging in societal challenges in a design driven way. The tool aims to allow entrepreneurs develop their creativity and exploration skills with the added capability of collaborating virtually with other stakeholders. It has image and file sharing capabilities, personal profiles and registered interests, chat and forum capabilities so users can create groups to communicate.
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