The internet is not just an information highway. It’s an education highway with endless lanes and almost unlimited (and free) resources on everything from artificial intelligence to creating a start-up for students to drive their own learning. That’s why they’re called Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs. A massive number of people sign up. But […]
Online education: the massive debate
By Sarah-Anne Arnold
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Inside | Sarah-Anne Arnold
Sarah-Anne Arnold is the Manager of the Solution Space at University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business . In 2011, she completed an MBA at the UCT Graduate School of Business, with a thesis on Innovation Adoption in Higher Education. She’s also been a graphic designer, a lecturer and a volunteer on an expedition to live and work in the jungles of Borneo. In no particular order.
Lessons from an online innovation course
By Sarah-Anne Arnold
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Why would a man from Morocco who doesn’t have enough to eat buy a TV? How do we make schools work for poor citizens? Does foreign aid help or hinder? Without property rights, is life destined to be “nasty, brutish & short”? These are the questions asked in the introduction to the edX online course, […]
Inside | Sarah-Anne Arnold
Sarah-Anne Arnold is the Manager of the Solution Space at University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business . In 2011, she completed an MBA at the UCT Graduate School of Business, with a thesis on Innovation Adoption in Higher Education. She’s also been a graphic designer, a lecturer and a volunteer on an expedition to live and work in the jungles of Borneo. In no particular order.
Are you ready to replicate?
By Heather Parker
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Got a social enterprise you want to scale up? Dan Berelowitz, co-founder and chief executive of the International Centre for Social Franchising (ICSF), suggests this 10-point checklist for self-assessing your project’s readiness. [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] Sharing this list in UK daily newspaper The Guardian, he proposed giving a score out of 10 for each question, where […]
Inside | Heather Parker
Heather Parker is a journalist, editor, UCT MBA-graduate and lover of her home city, Cape Town. She’s also the Legacy Officer in the World Design Capital 2014 team at the City of Cape Town. The team is working with the City to identify and further develop design-thinking culture within City structures. Heather clearly loves her job.
Social franchise in a box
By Heather Parker
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In a world with no landline phones, mobile phones are a big part of life. But if there’s also no national power grid, finding ways to charge those phones can become an even bigger part of life. Another case study Among the consequences are the fact that people choose phones according to battery life, passing […]
Inside | Heather Parker
Heather Parker is a journalist, editor, UCT MBA-graduate and lover of her home city, Cape Town. She’s also the Legacy Officer in the World Design Capital 2014 team at the City of Cape Town. The team is working with the City to identify and further develop design-thinking culture within City structures. Heather clearly loves her job.
A social franchise case study
By Heather Parker
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HIPPY SA, or Home Instruction for Parents of Pre-school Youngsters in South Africa, is an interesting illustration of the process around social benefit and scalability. The organisation started in Israel in 1969 and focuses on three to five-year-old children, their parents and the broader home environment. The core philosophy is that parents need to be […]
Inside | Heather Parker
Heather Parker is a journalist, editor, UCT MBA-graduate and lover of her home city, Cape Town. She’s also the Legacy Officer in the World Design Capital 2014 team at the City of Cape Town. The team is working with the City to identify and further develop design-thinking culture within City structures. Heather clearly loves her job.
Social franchising (to KFC or not to KFC)
By Heather Parker
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Social and commercial franchising share the goal of achieving quality-consistent business quicker, easier and with less risk. But can social enterprises truly be replicated and franchised like commercial chains? And if so, will the result be (finger-lickin’) good? [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] Kentucky Fried Chicken and Nando’s are like birds that migrate to new and distant lands. […]
Inside | Heather Parker
Heather Parker is a journalist, editor, UCT MBA-graduate and lover of her home city, Cape Town. She’s also the Legacy Officer in the World Design Capital 2014 team at the City of Cape Town. The team is working with the City to identify and further develop design-thinking culture within City structures. Heather clearly loves her job.
Social Impact Bonds: What works, what doesn’t
By Aunnie Patton
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In social finance circles, SIBs are a topic of hot debate. Most debaters do buy into the concept. But, because they are still in their infancy, many are waiting for evidence as opposed to anecdotes – tested models and impact-confirming outcomes to convince them that these instruments really work. In the mean time, debate continues…
Inside | Aunnie Patton
First she was an investment banker. Then she was a social investment banker. Now she’s a Dean’s Fellow at the Saïd Business School, Oxford. She’s consulted with the UK government, Big Society Capital, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and social enterprises the world over. In June 2013, she moved to Cape Town to be a Fellow at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Aunnie’s social investment in Africa. Read more about her work at: www.apsocialfinance.com
Impact Bonds in Africa – a whole different story
By Aunnie Patton
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So far, the story of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) has been unfolding in the UK, US and, more recently, Australia. But now, as intermediaries look to bring SIB structures to Africa, Asia and Latin America, a whole new chapter of innovation is under way. [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] Recognising the pivotal role that development finance institutions, corporations […]
Inside | Aunnie Patton
First she was an investment banker. Then she was a social investment banker. Now she’s a Dean’s Fellow at the Saïd Business School, Oxford. She’s consulted with the UK government, Big Society Capital, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and social enterprises the world over. In June 2013, she moved to Cape Town to be a Fellow at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Aunnie’s social investment in Africa. Read more about her work at: www.apsocialfinance.com
How SIBs work and differ from regular bonds
By Aunnie Patton
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Peterborough – The first SIB ever Background Launched officially in September 2010 with the Ministry of Justice in the UK. The aim was to prevent recidivism by working with 3 000 male short-sentence prisoners leaving Peterborough prison. The plan UK firm Social Finance raised £5-million from 17 social investors, to be drawn over six years […]
Inside | Aunnie Patton
First she was an investment banker. Then she was a social investment banker. Now she’s a Dean’s Fellow at the Saïd Business School, Oxford. She’s consulted with the UK government, Big Society Capital, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and social enterprises the world over. In June 2013, she moved to Cape Town to be a Fellow at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Aunnie’s social investment in Africa. Read more about her work at: www.apsocialfinance.com
The anatomy of Impact Bonds
By Aunnie Patton
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Social Impact Bonds are a way for public, nonprofit, and private sectors to adapt to new economic climates and collaborate to provide sustainable solutions with a measurable impact on society. | CONCEPT BY: Dr Alex Nicholls, Saïd Business School, Oxford |
Inside | Aunnie Patton
First she was an investment banker. Then she was a social investment banker. Now she’s a Dean’s Fellow at the Saïd Business School, Oxford. She’s consulted with the UK government, Big Society Capital, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and social enterprises the world over. In June 2013, she moved to Cape Town to be a Fellow at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Aunnie’s social investment in Africa. Read more about her work at: www.apsocialfinance.com
The story of social impact bonds
By Aunnie Patton
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In 2012, Jim Clifford knew that the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (CVAA) in the UK was extremely effective at placing challenging children with adoptive parents. More effective than government programmes that wait for aspirant parents to approach them. As head of the not-for-profit advisory at accounting firm Baker Tilly, and an adoptive parent himself, […]
Inside | Aunnie Patton
First she was an investment banker. Then she was a social investment banker. Now she’s a Dean’s Fellow at the Saïd Business School, Oxford. She’s consulted with the UK government, Big Society Capital, the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and social enterprises the world over. In June 2013, she moved to Cape Town to be a Fellow at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Aunnie’s social investment in Africa. Read more about her work at: www.apsocialfinance.com
Six trends in innovisualisation
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The world is changing. And so is the way we use information to assess and describe it. That’s why today’s organisations are looking for more visual data, and today’s infographics speak more than a thousand words. Thomas shares the trends behind the change… [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] 1 Results count more… In my experience and in many […]
Info + Graphics = Innovisualisation
By Thomas Scalway
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Infographics are not just pretty pictures. The good ones, that is. They are new and innovative ways of presenting information in an increasingly visual and results orientated world. We call it “innovisualisation”. Here’s why your data needs it now.
Inside | Thomas Scalway
He’s a consultant, specialising in strategy and evaluation for public health. For more than 15 years, he’s worked with governments and UN organisations on how to use data strategically to shape or evaluate what they do. Now he has an agency called Lushomo, which finds creative ways to present and share strategic information, mainly through infographics. Lushomo means “courage” in Tonga. It’s also the name
of Thomas’ boat.
Thoughts on tech with a purpose
By Osiame Molefe
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To some people technology is not as interesting as its ability to empower, uplift and educate people. This is only done when technology is “democratised” and available more widely and cheaply. When it reaches people and so has a purpose. Let’s think about that for a moment. [wooslider slider_type=”attachments”] When Piet Strieker, a volunteer teacher […]
Inside | Osiame Molefe
Osiame Molefe is a chartered accountant who’s crunched numbers in Johannesburg, Bermuda and New York. But that was then. Now he’s a Cape Town-based writer who crafts words into news, opinion, analysis, public sector strategy and also some fiction. His interest is in, “the space where personal and societal ambitions intersect with technology, politics and economics”. Welcome to Osiame’s space. An interesting place to be.
How mobile is Africa, really?
By Osiame Molefe
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Africa’s mobile revolution is a trending topic on the continent’s ever-swelling wave of cellphone use and multi-sector apps. But is it an actual revolution that’s driving real social change? Or is it just tech-happy hype and, if so, what does this mean for Africa’s future? It took 10 years for The Economist to eat its […]
Inside | Osiame Molefe
Osiame Molefe is a chartered accountant who’s crunched numbers in Johannesburg, Bermuda and New York. But that was then. Now he’s a Cape Town-based writer who crafts words into news, opinion, analysis, public sector strategy and also some fiction. His interest is in, “the space where personal and societal ambitions intersect with technology, politics and economics”. Welcome to Osiame’s space. An interesting place to be.
So here’s another good question…
By Francois Bonnici
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“What if countries competed with each other to become the most socially innovative in the world ” – Matthew Bishop, New York Bureau Chief of The Economist and Social Progress Imperative advisory board member What if they did? And what if they also competed to become the happiest or the most progressive? Wouldn’t that be […]
Inside | Francois Bonnici
Francois Bonnici is the editorial director of Inside | Out and the co-founder and director of Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. He originally trained as a medical doctor, graduating top of his class. He then read for a Masters in Public Health (London) and an MBA on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford’s Said Business School, where he received the prize for the best overall MBA student. He has a Masters in Global Leadership conferred by the World Economic Forum and is the Head of Africa for the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
Inside | Out is published by The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, hosted at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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