Learning to change the world: the social impact of one laptop per child

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (03) ◽  
pp. 51-1617-51-1617
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
One Laptop Per Child ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

The Science of Social Impact Innovation: How to Deliver More Impact through Innovative Business Models

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvael Ortega ◽  
Nathan Furr ◽  
Erin Liman ◽  
Caleb Flint
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Design Exploration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Systemic Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Ventures ◽  
Impact Models

Rather than spend an inordinate amount of time and resources on planning what is inherently unknown and uncertain, socially-focused organizations like Panera Cares, Banco Davivienda, and Brigham Young University's (BYU) Design Exploration lab quickly map out their assumptions, run experiments to test those assumptions, and adjust their plans based on their learnings. In this article, we explain and expand on how organizations of all kinds (whether they be large corporations, social ventures, or government agencies) have bought into the idea of using innovation and experimentation for impact; and how despite recent advancements of design thinking on the social impact front, the actual implementation of innovative ideas remains elusive for many organizations. The article further presents a more systemic model for social impact innovation: social impact models, which provide one possible solution by enabling social ventures to achieve a more robust validation of their new- and not-so-new-to-the-world ideas by mapping and strategies by mapping out each assumption and iteratively testing them in the field. With this article, the authors seek to provide a practical process for how to apply the model, and how to avoid the most common illusory validation traps, which together would allow socially-focused organizations to more frequently succeed and deliver more impact with their endeavors.

scholarly journals Spreading Fake News in the Virtual Realm in Bangladesh: Assessment of Impact

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Sharifa Umma Shirina ◽  
Md. Tabiur Rahman Prodhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
National Election ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Supersonic Speed ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Acute Crisis

Fake news is ‘false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting.’ The upsurge of technological advancement, especially social media, has paved the way for spreading fake news. The virtual realm spurs fake news as per the speed of air. Nowadays, fake news has been one of the social problems in the world along with Bangladesh. Self-seeker groups use fake news as an ‘atomic arsenal’ to disseminate their popular rhetoric with supersonic speed for fulfilling male purposes. Fake news is usually rampant during any crisis, elections, and even in campaigns. The hoaxers and fakers exploit the opportunity of the wavering psychology of the social media users, and fake news becomes ‘viral’ on social media, Facebook. Recently Bangladesh has faced an acute crisis of spreading fake news during the ‘Movement of Nirapod Sarak Chai, ‘National election in December 2018’ and very recent ‘need child’s head for Padma Bridge.’ This study titled “Spreading Fake News in the Virtual Realm in Bangladesh: Assessment of Impact” seeks the reasons for spreading fake news and its’ social impact in Bangladesh.

scholarly journals Analisis Dampak Sosial Akibat Pabrik Kertas Di Desa Parmaksian Tobasa Menggunakan Paradigma Ekofeminis

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Ayu Indira Hasugian
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Paper Industry ◽  
Paper Mill ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

AbstrakDesa Siruar Parmaksian Tobasa di salah satu desa yang berada di daerah Toba mengalami perubahan sosial akibat dampak negatif berdirinya PT TPL. Dampak yang diberikan mengarah kepada kaum perempuan/ibu sehingga mengakibatkan aktivitas sehari-hari perempuan/ibu menjadi terkendala. Dampak ini terjadi di setiap harinya, sehingga akan sangat berdampak buruk bagi hubungan antara perempuan dan alam. Melihat kasus tersebut peneliti ingin melakukan penelitian terhadap kondisi  yang dialami kaum perempuan/ibu tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisa dampak sosial akibat pabrik kertas di Desa Siruar Parmaksian Tobasa kepada para perempuan dengan menggunakan paradigma Ekofeminis yang di tawarkan oleh McFague dan Warren, dan dikaji dalam bentuk studi kasus. Metode penelitian yang peneliti pakai adalah Metode Studi Kasus dari Teori E.P Gintings. Ada beberapa isu yang muncul dari kasus atau masalah ini, diantaranya : dampak sosial, dampak kerusakan alam terhadap kehidupan para perempuan, dan paradigma baru relasi perempuan dan alam atau rekonstruksi paradigma. Hal ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui Bagaimana dampak sosial akibat pabrik kertas terhadap masyarakat yang berada di lingkungan  Industri Kertas di Desa Siruar Parmaksian Tobasa yang mengarah kepada perempuan yang terdampak dan Bagaimana upaya-upaya yang dilakukan kaum perempuan/ibu di desa siruar untuk mempertahankan tanah/wilayahnya yang telah di rusak oleh perusahaan tersebut?. Hasil Analisis menunjukkan bahwa  paradigma Ekofeminis sudah menerapkan paradigma dengan istilah “Konstruksionisme”, yang disebut dengan istilah metafora dunia sebagai tubuh Allah, artinya dunia harus dipahami sebagai satu kesatuan organik, tubuh Tuhan dan bisa menanamkan sikap yang menghargai dunia.Kata Kunci: dampak sosial, paradigma ekofeminis AbstractThe village of Siruar Parm testimony Tobasa in a village in the Toba area experienced social changes due to the negative impact of the establishment of PT TPL. The impact that is given is directed at women / mothers so that it causes the daily activities of women / mothers to be constrained. This impact occurs every day, so it will have a very bad impact on the relationship between women and nature. Seeing this case, the researchers wanted to conduct research on the conditions experienced by these women / mothers. The purpose of this study is to analyze the social impacts of the paper mill in Siruar Parm testimony Tobasa on women using the Ecofemist paradigm offered by McFague and Warren, and study it in the form of a case study. The research method that researchers use is the Case Study Method of E.P Gintings Theory. There are several issues that arise from this case or problem, including: social impacts, the impact of natural destruction on women's lives, and a new paradigm of relations between women and nature or paradigm reconstruction. This is done to find out how the social impact of the paper mill on the community living in the Paper Industry in Siruar Parm testimony Tobasa Village which leads to affected women and how the efforts made by women / mothers in Siruar Village to defend their has been damaged by the company ?. The results of the analysis show that the Ecofemist paradigm has applied a paradigm with the term "Constructionism", which is called the metaphor of the world as the body of God, meaning that the world must be understood as an organic unit, the body of God and can instill an attitude of respect for the world. Keywords: social impact, eco-feminist paradigm

scholarly journals Men’s and Women’s Style of Living and Motivation to Run in Charity Events

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5287
Author(s):  
Joanna Poczta ◽  
Nuno Almeida ◽  
Mateusz Rozmiarek ◽  
Maciej Młodzik ◽  
Ewa Malchrowicz-Mośko
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Santa Claus ◽  
Standardized Interview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Goal ◽  
The Relationship

Running has been very popular for years, especially in organized mass runs. Various running events take place all over the world, at different distances and locations, including charity running events. However, there has not been any research on the social impact of these events on participants to date. This article/paper is an attempt to remedy this situation. The authors conducted their research by the diagnostic survey method using standardized interview technique during the 6th Santa Claus Run organized in Poznan on the day of Santa Claus. A sample of 136 runners: 49 male respondents and 87 female respondents participated in the event voluntarily and completed a questionnaire. Therefore, the main goal of the study was to recognize the relationship between the lifestyles of men and women in the context of participation in a charity running event, in order to evaluate the differences between them. The specific goal was to discern the motives to take part in such kind of an event, as well as to find out what influence the participation in a charity run has on the respondents, both those leading an active and passive lifestyle. The most important result and the only one statistically significant difference in the conducted study was the indication that women have more empathy and participate more often than men in charity runs.

scholarly journals Address to the World Bank Sociological Group

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Huw Evans
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Imf

AbstractI feel myself to be an outsider amongst you: I am a macroeconomist by background, having worked in the UK Treasury for many years. Yet I have become convinced in my time at the World Bank of the importance of understanding the social context of the Bank’s work, and the social impact of Bank lending, especially because of the UK ODA’s experience in this field. As an Executive Director at the IMF too, I have gained important insights into how that institution uses its Board more effectively, with more cooperation, and much greater partnership between the Board and management.

Transformation of the World Order and the Conflict Potential of Contemporary Societies

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
E. Sadovaya ◽  
V. Sautkina
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Modern World ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Cleavages between economic growth and social development have deepened in recent decades. This is expressed in the growth of multidimensional inequality and is perceived as a global violation of the social justice principles, which leads to the growth of socio-economic conflicts. These are obviously long-term trends allowing to talk about the complete reconfiguration of the existing social space. This process is largely out of control and has a serious destructive potential. The authors emphasize that the modern high-tech economy is unmanned; high quality and secure jobs with permanent contracts are becoming less affordable. As a result, we are witnessing a shift from principles of the previously established social protection institutions, where access to basic social goods is reduced for a large number of citizens. Reforming the system of state support for citizens becomes a worldwide trend, which leads to an increase in the cost of social services and brings into question the very existence of the welfare state. Thus, in the context of social landscape global transformations in the modern world, the social impact of the unemployment problem has become a key issue for researchers and policy-makers. At present, it is difficult to foresee whether the world will continue to develop within a global perspective and whether the international community will be able to produce common regulatory principles, or we are heading for a period of fragmentation and disunity. The problem is largely politically determined, and its solution depends on whether humanity will be able to overcome the difficult period of controversy and confrontation in the name of development, and if so, on what principles consensus can be reached. Acknowledgements. The research of Elena Sergeevna Sadovaya was conducted with financial support of a grant provided by the Russian Science Foundation, № 15-18-00021 – “Regulating interethnic relations and managing ethnic and social conflicts in the contemporary world: the resource potential of civic identity (a comparative political analysis)”. The research was carried out at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO).

scholarly journals EM BUSCA DE REFERÊNCIAS CONCEITUAIS PARA ENTENDER A AVALIAÇÃO DE IMPACTO

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Maria da Glória Serra Pinto de Alencar
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Este artigo traz reflexões teóricas acerca da avaliação de impacto social. Enfatiza as abordagens de Silva (2008), Lima (2008; 2009), Aguilar e Ander-Egg (1994), dentre outros, sobre as diversas concepções de avaliação como um movimento no processo das políticas públicas. Apresenta diversas tipologias e modelos de avaliação, centrando a discussão na avaliação de impacto social. Aborda o impacto social como uma função ético-filosófica, ligada a uma determinada concepção de mundo que resgata os valores do ser humano, seu desenvolvimento, sua criatividade, no contexto de um processo de aprendizagem guiado e direcionado para formas de convivência superior. Conclui que a avaliação de impacto social deve ser entendida antes de tudo como uma atitude diante da vida e das coisas e como um instrumento para construir o futuro.Palavras-chave: Avaliação de impacto, impacto social, políticas públicas.SEARCHING FOR CONCEPTUAL REFERENCE TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT EVALUATIONAbstract: This article brings theoretical reflections on the social impact evaluation. It emphasizes the approaches of Silva (2008), Lima (2008, 2009), Aguilar and Ander-Egg (1994), among others, about different conceptions of evaluation as amovement in the process of public policies. It presents various types and models of evaluation, focusing the discussion on the social impact evaluation. Addresses the social impact as an ethical and philosophical function, linked to a particularconception of the world which rescue the values of human beings, their development, their creativity in the context of alearning process, guided and directed to better acquaintanceship ways. Concludes that the social impact assessment should be understood primarily as an attitude toward life and things and as a tool to build the future.Key words: Impact evaluation, social impact, policies.

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