A group of Young Public Service Leaders were lucky enough to have a first look at Spacecubed mid construction and hear about some of the great organisations and individuals that will be working in the space. The group had a complete tour of the space, and were able to ask any questions to the SiiWA team, before heading to the Supreme Court Gardens to hear a presentation from Brodie McCulloch, ‘Deliberately Co-creating Western Australia’s Future’.
During the presentation, Brodie highlighted that Western Australia is experiencing rapid growth which provides enormous opportunity to position the State as a global leader in a range of industries and sectors. But, as a state, we need to understand what the vision for the future is, where we will get it from. How we want Western Australia to be recognised in 30 years time. The group were able to ask Brodie questions, and how Spacecubed will be able to allow for this vision to be realised and achieved.
“Community, Business, Not for Profit and Government need to be working to co-design, co-create and co-deliver the mechanisms, organisations and systems that are going to meet growing demands and deliberately build a Western Australia we want to see…let’s get started now.” – Brodie McCulloch
After the presentation, the group were able to move on to Helvetica, for a chance to mingle and enjoy a drink and nibbles together. The event was organised by Institute of Public Administration Australia and we thank them for their hard work in making it happen.
TACSI initiative Family by Family is a new model for family support, which links up families who’ve been through tough times with families still facing tough times who want life to get better.
This radically different model to support families in stress was co-designed with families in South Australia and is now spreading to more places in SA.
Family by Family director Carolyn Curtis is visiting Perth and will talk about the journey taken with these families, and what they can teach us about providing family support.
Venue: Ernst & Young Lecture Theatre, UWA Business School
Below are the videos from the UN Social Innovation Summit 2011. Hosted by Landmark Ventures and the United Nations Office for Partnerships, the Social Innovation Summit is an event dedicated to connecting and inspiring a unique network of global Fortune 500 business, investment, foundation, and community leaders to create social impact and affect positive change. You can engage with the summit conversation on Twitter with hashtag #SIS11.
Mashable has a good summary if you want the short version.
MOTIVATED by a desire to get people inspired, informed, and engaged with world-shaping, life-changing ideas — TEDxWhadjuk is starting in Perth next month.
Held at the University of Western Australia on March 26th, the locally-flavoured program of events will present speakers offering free knowledge on topics as diverse as the future of social media, attitudes towards Aboriginal people and biodiversity.
Mack truck accident survivor and subsequent triathlete champion, Jasmin Dillon will be speaking from experience on the power of the mind and bodily energy to facilitate positive change.
With a catch-cry of “ideas worth spreading”, TEDx is a program of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience http://www.ted.com/ .
Western Australia’s reputation as a rapidly expanding mining and infrastructure hub has long drawn attention from social, community and government groups alike.
With this in mind, TEDxWhadjuk organisers have posed a key question – “With resources and wealth comes responsibility – so what is YOUR idea worth spreading?”
Keep following SiiWA for more updates on TEDxWhadjuk (Whadjuk is the traditional, indigenous name for the Perth region) and a full list of speakers and topics.
Looking at the different types of support infrastructure for Social Innovation is something we are going to need to do a lot of. The Canadian Centre for Social Innovation has a possible model that could be established in Western Australia.
Definitions of social innovation abound and a casual observer can quickly become entangled in a debate over meaning and nuance. We’re not too hung up about it so we’ve adopted a simple working definition: Social Innovation refers to new ideas that resolve existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges for the benefit of people and planet. A true social innovation is systems-changing – it permanently alters the perceptions, behaviours and structures that previously gave rise to these challenges.
Even more simply, a social innovation is an idea that works for the public good.
Social innovations come from individuals, groups or organizations, and can take place in the for-profit, nonprofit and public sectors. Increasingly, they are happening in the spaces between these three sectors as differing approaches collide to spark new ways of thinking about the challenges we all face.
The Centre for Social Innovation operates here, in the spaces between sectors and among individuals, projects and organizations. We’re creating new spaces to foster social innovation by bringing together a mix of people, services, strategies and ideas.
Below is an update of the Agenda for the “Unlocking and Empowering Social Innovation in Western Australia” event on the 20th. There are a number of speakers flying in to provide an interstate perspective as well as a number of local speakers to provide an up to date view of Western Australia and where we are now. The focus of the day is to see how we can progress the area of Social Innovation as well as getting people thinking about how it applies to them, their organisation and their community. Agenda
We will be releasing more information about the structure of the day soon (which is sure to be interactive and really drive where we are heading in WA) however we would like to hear what people would like to achieve on the day.
Please write a comment below or tweet to us on twitter.
Conversations have started with TACSI about bringing future speakers to Western Australia and we should have more on this in coming months so please subscribe to updates at the bottom of this page or follow us through twitter.
The Social Innovator Dialogues will bring international thought leadership and expertise to Australia through a series of events. Including cutting edge thinkers and doers on innovation in public sector policy, social justice and sustainable design. The series will address the big issues affecting decision makers across the public, private and third sector and encourage leaders in Australia to wrestle with the opportunities and challenges of innovation that are remaking the world as we know it.
During late 2009 Melbourne hosted the Social Enterprise World Forum to start looking at Social Enterprise in Australia. If you have some time it is well worth watching the above debate on “There is no Business like Social Business”.
Below are the videos from the UN Social Innovation Summit 2011. Hosted by Landmark Ventures and the United Nations Office for Partnerships, the Social Innovation Summit is an event dedicated to connecting and inspiring a unique network of global Fortune 500 business, investment, foundation, and community leaders to create social impact and affect positive change. You can engage with the summit conversation on Twitter with hashtag #SIS11. 
