cynthia shanmugalingam on social innovation in india
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Slide 1 The Young Foundation 2009
SIX innovators I met in India (and what we could learn from them)
Cynthia ShanmugalingamJune 2010
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Slide 2 The Young Foundation 2009
Why a non-Indian makes a 6th trip to India
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Slide 3 The Young Foundation 2009
Kicked off a research report into education in Mumbai
Advised 28 social entrepreneurs
Attended 2 national events in philanthropy and social investment
3 field trips (Gujarat, Mumbai, TN)
Wrote on my blog (!)
Lived and worked in Mumbai
What I got up to
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Slide 4 The Young Foundation 2009
1. Enormous social problems
2. Corrupt government and no public sector commissioning
3. Questionable legacy of MFI
4. Rapid and messy economic growth (=10%)
5. Fast growing consumerism and little private sector job security
6. Truly amazing social entrepreneurs
The context for social innovation in India
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Slide 5 The Young Foundation 2009
•More than social media•Overcoming distribution problems•Well-designed and delivered
Examples:
- Skymet- Comat- UK could be applied to elderly, disabled…
Recommendation 1: Hire more IT nerds
Social innovator 1: The IT nerd
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Slide 6 The Young Foundation 2009
•Effective at running an operation without the “hard-to-reach”•Calm, capable, strategic, operators
Examples:
-Source Pilani (rural BPO)-FabIndia
Recommendation 2: Understand commercial realities in sectors where we want to engage better
Social innovator 2: The commercial mind
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Slide 7 The Young Foundation 2009
•Moving beyond invention into crafted, tested, solid design•Usually expert
Examples:
- Gyan Shala- Educational Initiatives- Aravind Eyecare
Recommendation 3: Find the designers and help them disseminate
Social innovator 3: The designer
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Slide 8 The Young Foundation 2009
• Most funders throw money at under-resourced organisations and hope they will do something good with it•Very few use the money instead to buy great people and loan them out
Examples:
- Monitor Inclusive Markets
Recommendation 4: A new model of social lending?
Social innovator 4: The human banker
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Slide 9 The Young Foundation 2009
• Using real social enterprise models as a way of doing traditional activism• Moving entrepreneurship into politics and civic engagement
Examples:
- Shaffi Mather
Recommendation 5: Is there a conversation about this kind of intervention?
Social innovator 5: The entrepreneur-activist
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Slide 10 The Young Foundation 2009
• Global conversation on measurement• After MFI sure others will follow on investment, etc
Examples:
- GIIN and IRIS
Recommendation 6: Bring this conversation to the UK
Social innovator 6: The global librarian