This is an important topic for our times! And it is an issue that has driven discussion and thinking at Social Innovation Sydney from the beginning. This film confronts the new reality facing brands in a world where transparency is there, whether they like it or not.
“Bad Companies Can’t Hide Behind Great Ads Anymore
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Continue Reading →Don’t have plans for 10th March? Why not celebrate International Women’s Day in a tangible way by joining this march in Sydney?
WHERE: First Fleet Park
WHEN: 12PM – 3PM, 10 March 2012
This International Women’s Day join your feminist community for a community picnic, live music & world-changing [...]
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Thank-you to everyone who braved the torrential Sydney rain last night to watch Miss Representation and participate in the panel session afterward.
Special thanks to our panel members who provided thought provoking discussion:
Eva Cox AO (@evacox) – highly respected feminist, academic, and activist, whose work has informed and inspired a generation [...]
Continue Reading →If you’ve signed up to attend the screening of Miss Representation and the panel discussion, here is a map of the venue at COFA.
We will be in Lecture Theatre EG02 at COFA, corner of Greens Road and Oxford Street Paddington NSW 2121.
If you aren’t able to join us please follow [...]
Continue Reading →It is important that we have a discussion about the representation of women in the media with media practitioners at the table. We’re delighted that two media practitioners, Kate Southam and John Bergin, can join us for the Miss Representation Panel at COFA on 29 February 2012 (you can [...]
Continue Reading →We are kicking off our 2012 events with a film screening – Miss Representation – which explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the under representation of women in positions of power and influence.
The screening will be at COFA in Paddington at 6pm on 29 February [...]
Continue Reading →Declan Jones has raised some important issues that arise around the lack of an agreed definition for ‘social enterprise’. The full article is worth a read.
This definitional problem has disturbed me for quite a while and we have yet to resolve the matter to any degree. Further, there is the question of social [...]
Continue Reading →This is a great initiative to see in Western Australia! Social innovation in Western Australia (aka SiiWA) just told us that:
“We are also launching the search for WA Social Enterprises in partnership with Social Traders. If you work for or know of a Social Enterprise in WA please [...]
Continue Reading →Following are some thoughts after attending the recent forum in Melbourne, hosted by Donkey Wheel House, on creating a social enterprise incubator. However, with our Talking Sydney Unconference on this past weekend it’s the first chance I’ve had to post my thoughts.
At 4.30 am Monday I was seriously questioning my sanity [...]
Continue Reading →We’re really please to announce that the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) has just launched a new campaign, Solved, which is searching nationwide to find social solutions that work.
As Sarah Stokely explained it to us:
Why Solved? Sometimes when tackling social challenges, we focus too [...]
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