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European Report: Young Foundation Gathers Global Social Innovators
Social innovation translates poorly across national borders, with different tactics supporting similar goals.One hundred and twenty social innovators from twenty four countries recently gathered in Lisbon, Portugal for a three-day conference and idea sharing session called Social Innovation eXchange (SIX). The vast majority of participants were from the EU and Commonwealth countries, with the UK and host country Portugal most densely represented.
European Report: Young Foundation Gathers Global Social Innovators
Social innovation translates poorly across national borders, with different tactics supporting similar goals.One hundred and twenty social innovators from twenty four countries recently gathered in Lisbon, Portugal for a three-day conference and idea sharing session called Social Innovation eXchange (SIX). The vast majority of participants were from the EU and Commonwealth countries, with the UK and host country Portugal most densely represented. With the exception of a small Chinese delegation, China, India and Russia were absent from the discussions, as was any developing nation from Africa, South America or elsewhere. The conference theme was 'Recovery Through Innovation,' asking the question, "how can we treat this global economic crisis as an opportunity?" In practice, the concepts of crisis and recovery threaded through the background; most presentations and the many interactive quasi-Open Space discussion...
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