Making Dutch society smartersome strategies and lessons for creating social change

Joeri van den Steenhoven

Summer school on Social Innovation

29 July 2008

railway track

responses

challenges

social value

researchmaking dutch society

smarter

economic prosperity

designing change

interventions

projects

learning

vision

reflection

transfer

action

themes

NGO

17 people

thinktank

Amsterdam

1999

Network

no core funding

mixed finance

catalyst

MissionMissionMissionMissionMissionMission

VisioVisionn

InterventionInterventionLearningLearning

ActioActionn

Spin offsSpin offs

Digital Pioneers

163 projects funded

Project leader sessions

1132 applications

active learning

Digital Pioneers Academy

network

web-based social initiatives

seed capital

social investment fund

coachingcivil society

media

active learning

15 rounds

82% alive after 5 years

2 million users each month

Chatting with Kids Phone

Ouders.nl

Geluids.net

15.000 euro

32.000 euro

open source

open content

grant from Dept. of Media

onetime funding

Kafkabrigade

each institution works from its own perspective, no one sees total picture

contra-analysis

putting citizen at centre

narrative

research & intervention

action plan

personal healthcare budget

the smallest possible step with the greatest possible

result

marriage

not less rules, but smarter

fighting unnecessary bureaucracy

collective performance review

case method

multi-problem families

youth care

immigrant entrepreneurs

services for chronically ill

school drop outs

solving the case,structural solutions,transferring method

social entrepreneurship

creative economy

smart schools

current work

open content

good government

Academics without borders

Belgians do it better

Creative Challenge Call

Breakthrough Classroom

Innovators Network

Kafkabrigade

Public Access

Regional research

Memory channel

Images for the future

Creative Commons NL

Creative business models

Digital Pioneers

Mediawisdom map

Education Pioneers

Dutch Heroes

P2P Fusion

some lessons

think big

inspiration

then make it smaller

share everything (but do not give it away too

soon)

create a brand

choose your intervention

analyse the challenge

there are always more smart people outside your organisation

connection

be open

if you allow others to take credit,

you can achieve anythingnetworks

visionary

practical

it’s all about creating a dynamic that is larger than yourself

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