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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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Announcing the first round of speakers for the upcoming Indigenous Innovation Unconference to be held on the 29 October 2011:  

Tanya Hosch, Board Director, the Australian Centre for Social Innovation Jason Glanville, CEO of the NCIE Shelley Reys, Managing Director, Arilla [...]

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Australia’s first Indigenous Innovation Unconference will be held at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence on Saturday 29 October 2011.

There is a tendency for media to focus on the various issues and problems faced by Indigenous communities. However, there is an emerging belief that moving [...]

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What is the NCIE?

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Social Innovation Sydney are very proud and excited to be partnering with The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence for the next Unconference, on the 29th of October.

What is the NCIE? And what is their role in building Indigenous Excellence and Innovation in our community?

The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence

The National [...]

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Anthony Baxter from Google gave an awesome and inspiring talk about the work of Google’s Crisis Response Team and how we can all collaborate to help out during disasters.

We just wanted to thank Anthony for taking the time to share his ideas and experiences with us at Social Innovation [...]

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We’re delighted to announce that our keynote speaker for the next Social Innovation Sydney Unconference on 13 August 2011 is:

Anthony Baxter from the Google Crisis Response Team

Anthony is a geek who works at Google Australia. Among other things, he works with Google.org’s Crisis [...]

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It was a pleasure to have everyone there with us at COFA and to see the collaboration and development of the startup ideas. We really appreciate the trust that everyone showed in us and in each other throughout the weekend.

The feedback has been excellent (see here for the blog post).

And thanks to Lucy [...]

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Social Innovation Sydney is pleased to announce that the Sydney cloud computing startup NineFold has kindly sponsored lunch for the upcoming Social Innovation BarCamp. As Jonathan Crossfield from Ninefold said:

“Initiatives such as Social Innovation BarCamp are a fantastic way to harness the altruism, knowledge and enthusiasm of small groups [...]

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This is a guest post from Neerav Bhatt who attended the Gartner Symposium in Sydney, this post is reproduced with permission:

I had a press pass to the 2010 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo and specifically made time to attend Craig Rispin’s session “How To Think Like a Futurist” as I’d heard he had some thought provoking [...]

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THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED

The feedback we’re receiving thus far is that the day created vibrant discussion, new ideas, and actionable steps. The collaboration and shared insight from the experience and passion of the multitude of attendees is the perfect recipe for continued action.

Mark Pesce set the tone of the [...]

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