“With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.” PeopleMaySelfAbleSocialSubjectsIdentityDependsComplexesSense Of SelfSocial Network Author:Geoff Mulgan
“All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.” WorldHelpingProblemGovernmentTodaySocialJusticeGrowingWasteFairsInnovationTradeDistanceDespiteZeroUrbanCarbonHousingFarmingReductionTacklingHospiceFair TradeSociety TodaySocial InnovationRestorative Justice Author:Geoff Mulgan
“On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.” ThinkingSocialCasesClearEnvironmentToo MuchGenerationsClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeNervousUpsetLabourSuspectsFuture GenerationTimidity Author:Geoff Mulgan
“Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.” WayIdeasSocialInterestDesignInnovationExperimentsThriveCollaborationUsersNew WaysInvolvingSocial Innovation Author:Geoff Mulgan
“The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.” RealitySocialFictionScience FictionNotionConnectedDataStreamsDigitalSocial NetworkHyper Author:Geoff Mulgan
