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The book focuses on how social innovations and associated social enterprises are or can be created. It chronicles the design journeys of 20 global social innovation design cases. In each case a detailed description of how social innovation has been designed is provided.
List of contents
1. Introduction I. Promoting Rural Economic Development 2. Honey Care, Africa, Kenya: Promoting Honey Farming 3. Village of Andavadoake, Madagascar: Increasing Octopus Farming Productivity 4. Buhoma Village Walk, Uganda: Promoting Sustainable Tourism II. Improving Infrastructure 5. Lufumbu Village Water Scheme, Tanzania: Offsetting Water Infrastructure 6. Husk Power Systems, India: Environmentally Friendly Electricity Generation 7. Waste Ventures India. Integrated Waste Management 8. Safaricom’s M-Pesa, Africa: Mobile-Based Financial Services III. Enhancing Healthcare 9. TRACnet, Rwanda: Fighting Pandemics using Information Technology 10. Aravind Eye Care System, India: Hospital Network for Vision 11. Rushey Green Time Bank, United Kingdom: Bank for Reciprocal Healthcare Services Exchange IV. Generating and/or Sustaining Employment 12. DesiCrew, India: Business Process Outsourcing for Rural Employment 13. Infosys Global Education Center, India: Organization-Specific Career-Long Learning 14. The Big Issue, United Kingdom: Income-Earning Model for Homeless People 15. WorkVentures, Australia. Sustaining Independent Employment V. Transforming Farming 16. SEKEM, Egypt: Holistic Farming Initiative 17. Cotton Stripper, India: Mechanizing Cotton Stripping 18. M-Farm, Kenya: Monitoring Real-Time Crop Market Prices VI. Addressing Climate Change 19. Tetra Pak, Sweden: Reducing Climate Impact 20. Elopak, Norway: Becoming Carbon-Neutral 21. Johnson & Johnson, USA: Reducing Carbon Emissions 22. Conclusions
About the author
Vijay K. Vaishnavi is Professor Emeritus of Computer Information Systems, as well as former Board of Advisors Professor of Computer Information Systems and Professor of Computer Science, at Georgia State University. He holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and has conducted postdoctoral work at McMaster University, Canada. His research interests cover several areas including innovation design, social innovation design, design science research methods, information integration and web mining, software development, and data structures/algorithms.
Summary
The book focuses on how social innovations and associated social enterprises are or can be created. It chronicles the design journeys of 20 global social innovation design cases. In each case a detailed description of how social innovation has been designed is provided.
