catalyzing innovation for all, by all: innovation for inclusive development
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Presentation delivered last February 9, 2013 to students of COM104: Designing Media the Matters, Ateneo de Manila UniversityTRANSCRIPT
Catalyzing innovation for all, by allInnovation for Inclusive Development
Grace SantosProgram Manager, UNIID-SEAAteneo School of Government
Delivered to students of COM104: Designing Media that Matters
Innovation
New or improved ways of thinking or doing things in a place where or by people for whom they have not been used before.
New ideas, perspectives, technologies, and meaningful social arrangements and relationships.
Innovation and Development
Integral to innovation is the successful combination/ integration of technical devices and practices (hardware), knowledge and modes of
thinking (software) and social institutions and forms of organization (orgware). -- Smits, 2000; Aarts and Leeuwis, 2011
Innovation and Development
Innovation and DevelopmentEvident advancement of societies
Innovation and DevelopmentTHE REAL SCORE: Emerging Economies, Rising
Inequality
More than a billion people still living in multi-dimensional poverty.
In SEA, Gini coefficients of SEA countries range from .34 – .44.
INNOVATION FOR WHOM?
A 2011 report from Oxfam International-Philippines identified Filipino fishermen and farmers as the poorest sectors of Philippine society.
“The great paradox is that they are surrounded by the means to produce food, and yet they are the most vulnerable to hunger.”
FOR WHAT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT?
In reality, there is a DISCONNECTION between INNOVATION and DEVELOPMENT
• Social justice, equity and human rights are not deeply embedded in innovation systems and processes.
• Development equated with economic, industrial growth; human development only secondary.
Shift to Innovation 2.0Innovation from
Below“Bottom of the Pyramid Innovation” (Prahalad, 2002)
“Below-the-Radar Innovation” (Kaplinski, 2010)
“Grassroots Innovation” (Gupta, 2003)“Social Technologies”
(Fressoli, Smith et.al, 2011)
In essence, pertains to innovation that harnesses and builds on local and indigenous knowledge, skills and resources, and actively engages non-traditional innovators -- indigenous communities, poor and vulnerable sectors, marginalized groups.
A new perspective: Innovation for Inclusive Development
(IID)
“innovation that reduces poverty and enables as many groups of people,
especially the poor and vulnerable, to participate in decision-making, to
create and actualize opportunities, and to share the benefits of development.”
Solution seeking Creative
Open & Engaging
CommunityCentered
A new perspective: Innovation for Inclusive Development
(IID)
IID provides opportunities not only to overcome physical,
social, financial, and technical barriers
but also to foster transformation in systems and
institutions, and ultimately, improvement
in the quality of life of all.
GOVERNMENT
UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY / FIRM
Inclusive model of innovation
CIVIL SOCIETY, POOR & VULNERABLE
COMMUNITIES
• Regional initiative supported by IDRC from 2008-2011.• Documented and assessed the potential of S&T-based innovation as a means to effectively address socio-economic needs of those at the BoP in SEA.• Illustrated various levels of engagement with those at the BoP.
Illustrative Cases
26Projects
6Countrie
s
5Intermedia
ryActors
/ /Illustrative Cases
INTERMEDIARY-PARTNERS 2008-2010
Action for Economic Reforms(Philippines)
WATER & SANITATION
Aqueous Solutions(Thailand)
A Single Drop for Safe Water(Philippines)
HEALTH
ENERGY
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
WARECOD(Vietnam)
Gadjah Mada University(Indonesia)
Live & Learn(Cambodia)
WAND Foundation(Philippines)
MicroVentures, Inc(Philippines)
University of Padjadjaran(Indonesia)
Don Bosco Technical College(Philippines)
EcoAgri Foundation, Inc.(Philippines)
University of Indonesia(Indonesia)
Institute of Policy and StrategyFor Agriculture and Rural Development (Vietnam)
Kahublagan Sang Panimalay(Philippines)
Philippine Rice Research Institute(Philippines)
SETARA/NTFP Indonesia(Indonesia)
TRICOM, Inc.(Philippines)
ICT & BUSINESS AGRICULTURE & FOOD
Computer Professionals Union(Philippines)
(Singapore)
Institut Teknologi Bandung(Indonesia)
Philippine Business for Social Progress(Philippines)
VIETNET-ICT and CommunicationCenter (Vietnam)
WorldFish Centre (Philippine Office)
Philippine Rice Research Institute(Philippines)
Sub-Plant Protection DepartmentAn Giang Province (Vietnam)
INTERMEDIARY-PARTNERS 2008-2010
ISDA.MOBI: Mobile phone interface for small-scale fishers WorldFish Centre, PHILIPPINES
• Prototyping and pilot-testing of a mobile phone interface that enables fisherfolk and the Bantay Dagat in the Verde Island Passage, Batangas to contribute information to the FishBase database of the WorldFish Centre.• Level of community engagement: Proactive
Illustrative Cases
SnT IN A BOXComputer Professionals’ Union, PHILIPPINES
• Development of a free and open-source software teaching aid (www.opensciencebox.org) for basic science and math teachers in public schools.• Level of community engagement: Interactive
Illustrative Cases
ECOLIFE VILLAGE CAFEVietnet-ICT and Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development, VIETNAM
• Designing and setting up a community enterprise and information center that promotes eco-tourism and resiliency to climate change.• Level of community engagement: Community Mobilization
Illustrative Cases
WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM for FLOATING COMMUNITIES Live & Learn Environmental Education, CAMBODIA
• Prototyping and pilot-testing of a floating waste management barge in Tonle Sap that enables reuse of human waste into organic fertilizer. • Level of community engagement: Community Mobilization
Illustrative Cases
Importance of community engagement Facilitating deep dialogue Building shared commitment Capability development Management of risks
Key Insights
Key Insights
Critical role of innovation intermediaries Enabling active engagement of grassroots communities, informal/excluded groups in innovation and development initiatives and processes. Connecting them to recognized institutions, systems and markets to gain access to technologies, services and resources that address their specific needs.
Key Insights
Policy as catalystPolicies (institutional, national, regional) that will enable open innovation, sectoral collaboration, and empowerment at the grassroots.
IN A NUTSHELL:
Community Engagement + Intermediaries + Supporting Policy
are the pillars that support IID, and are key to ensuring the appropriateness, accessibility, scalability and sustainability of such innovation efforts.
Key Insights
IID Advocacy, Capability- and
Partnership-building
• Teaching• Research• Extension
UNIVERSITIES• Setting R&D agenda• Grant-making• Policy development
RESEARCH COUNCILS
A follow-up program that will run 2012-2014 that aims to:
UNIID-SEA’s work with universities is primarily focused on IID RESEARCH and FIELD-BUILDING.
What we are doing now
RESEARCH & CONVENINGResearch studies, talks, conferences and workshops on
IID
CURRICULUM
Development of Undergraduate and Graduate
Courses/ Programs on IID
Open COURSEWAREDevelopment of an
IID knowledge sharing hub
FACILITATE DISCUSSION, SHARING, COLLABORATIVE
LEARNING of IID
What we are doing now
Current work with universities
Ateneo School of GovernmentDevelopment Studies ProgramDepartment of Information Systems and Computer ScienceAteneo Innovation Center
Graduate Program on Technopreneurship and Innovation Management
Department of Science and Technology Studies
International Relations Office
School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development
What we are doing now: University Partners
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