Creating Imagined Communities of Belonging
(or How One Institutions Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Social Innovation)
- large institutions and technology
-- especially from a major British NGO
-- addressing massive collective action problems
-- trying to let go of a need for physical presence, and the beloved patterns that require it
-- dealing with issues of digital divide (though that's a myth: people have mobile phones all over)
-- in changing others, changing oneself
- some projects
-- "skype grannies" in the UK who are recruited to coach youngsters in slums in India
-- Tierra del Fuego: keeping the city council accountable by blogging council meetings
Richard Sennett: three values that are being undermined -- narrative, usefulness, craftsmanship
- so where is the role of the British Council in all that? Supporting it with simple interventions
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