Sentences with phrase «from social innovation»

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From enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to apps to social media, software drove most of the last decade's disruptive innovations.

«We are transitioning from an industrial economy to a new sustainable collaborative economy,» said Chase at The Feast social innovation conference in New York City earlier this month.

«Like many of our social impact initiatives, the innovation and inspiration comes from our partners who are volunteering in and contributing to their communities,» said John Kelly, senior vice president, Starbucks Global Responsibility, Community and Public Policy.

Fun social wellness challenges — including everything from getting steps together to volunteering to holding innovation sessions — can bring teams closer together, rally everyone around a common goal and improve workplace relationships.

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal.

In just five years social media has gone from an innovation in customer service to a requirement.

From disruptive innovation, to social media disasters, to mistaken technical investments, to gender discrimination, to misunderstood competition, companies need to be able to anticipate crises and prepare to deal with them head on.

Using PRIME's proprietary social media analytics methods and technology, the research firm identified 13 million relevant social media posts from March 2013 to December 2013 on the subject of mobile payment innovation in the context of MasterCard and its industry peers; sentiment analysis shows the majority of posts were driven by news - story sharing 92 % positive / factual, only 8 % negative tone overall which is a reflection of the original content as it appeared in traditional news outlets.

Our team specializes in the disciplines that are essential to helping corporations and non-profit organizations benefit from social change, including corporate social responsibility, social enterprise development, social innovation and social finance.

Toronto, June 24, 2015 — Impact8's third cohort graduated from the eight - week accelerator after demoing their social innovations to an audience of accredited investors and industry stakeholders yesterday at the MaRS Centre.

The Family Independence Initiative, a national center for anti-poverty innovation, is taking a radically different approach from the typical American social service model — and it's proving to be radically effective:

The amazing appeal of Chateaubriand derives from his ability to turn the privileging of nature (the great innovation at the end of the eighteenth century) into an argument for sacrality, and to legitimize the spheres of the emotional and the aesthetic as valid replacements for those of the rational and the social.

«Utopia - writing,» she argues, interacted with social experimentation and the more popular imagination to create social innovations in every sphere from the economic (the trade union movement, profit - sharing, social security, scientific management) through political (parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage) to the social (universal education, child welfare practices, women s «emancipation,» New Towns, social planning.

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

One such innovation to come out of the Netherlands in recent years is an app from social enterprise

Our Community: Sustainable Brands is home to a growing community of passionate individuals from around the world who are committed to leverage environmental and social innovation to deliver exceptional business performance AND shared value to those they impact.

These chefs have focused on everything from innovation to education, health, research, sustainability, social entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and the preservation of local cultures.

This innovation has been developed by Cart Golf (www.cartgolfgps.net), based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and allows golfers to remain electronically connected during their entire round of golf while also benefitting from hole information and social media links to instantly report a hole - in - one!

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Notable speakers include the e-Safety Commissioner of Australia, multiple United States Government representatives, and leaders from social media and innovation industry including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Mattel, Toyota, Twitter, and more.

Cultural innovations and child care practices and, importantly, the dynamic social values and ideologies that legitimize them, shift quite rapidly relative to evolutionary - based changes in fundamental infant biology.1 This raises the possibility that widely recommended infant care practices can be at odds with the human infant's biological, psychological and emotional needs and expectations, at least as inferred from the human infant's evolutionary past.

Like in the past, new policy innovations are currently being explored to find new ways to deal with the social pressure resulting from the increasing obsolescence of manual labour, as can be seen in the experimenting with Universal Basic Income in Finland.

Monday 11 March 2013 2.30 pm Oral Questions Plans to tackle inequality in income and wealth in the UK - Lord Dubs Consequences for access to justice for those who will not be able to receive free legal advice on social welfare law matters from 1 April - Lord Bach Future railway re-openings - Lord Faulkner of Worcester Progress towards achieving the projected increase in the size of the UK's reserve forces - Lord Rosser Legislation Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Report stage (Day 4)- Viscount Younger of Leckie Short Debate Recommendations of the Francis Report into the Mid-Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Lord Patel Short Debate Impact of NHS innovation and research strategies on health improvement and wealth creation - Lord Kakkar

In the spirit of Lombardy's open innovation model, the Forum will feature professionals from diverse areas: responsible research and innovation; science and technology studies; public communication of science; participative and deliberative methods; public engagement; social innovation; social impact and its assessment; sociology of risk; sociology of science; technology assessment and governance; open innovation, science, and data; data ethics; and bioethics.

We measured influence based on a variety of factors, such as depth of study, community impact, social media following, and contributions to yoga's many aspects, from philosophy to physiology, tradition to innovation.

equality (sex, gender, social economic status, race), freedom from war, innovation; it actually brought tears to my eyes to know that i am living in a society that has re-elected a man with such liberal and wonderful views.

Societies that nurture binding social capital and pluralism have always been more creative, as they can draw on and bring to bear the best talent from anywhere, build on multiple perspectives, and nurture creativity and innovation.

Updated guidance from the Department for Education has opened up criteria for opening a free school to include addressing a «social need», a need for «innovation» or a need for «greater choice and diversity».

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Learning sciences: Interdisciplinary field bringing together findings — from research into cognitive, social and cultural psychology; neuroscience and learning environments, among others — with the goal of implementing learning innovations and improving instructional practice.

One innovation of the study was the use of social network analysis to directly assess who children reported talking to or seeking help from and whether children who identified peers with stronger reading skills experienced higher reading skills.

Economic and social changes — from innovations in technology to the advent of new civic challenges — always brings about new businesses and careers while rendering old ones obsolete.

This will provide an opportunity for ambassadors from mathematics education, science education, English education, and social studies education to meet one another and discuss technological innovation across their respective disciplines.

In addition, the AAMA initiative runs a career academy in entrepreneurship, social innovation, and civic engagement; a student leadership council; a peer mentoring program; and assemblies featuring role models from the community.

From the moment it came to life in 2002, Scion set itself up as a leader of innovation within Toyota, but maybe all of us thought of this as just a strategy to explain away the appearance of the boxy, unconventional Scion xB and the social phenomenon that followed.

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And one of my favorite authors came out of FutureBook 2015 saying that the whole day was focused on tech: she'd had no idea that the trade was doing so much, let alone talking so much, she said, about new innovations — from Judith Curr's Crave app and self - publishing authors at that bastion of Big Five - ism Simon & Schuster to the «page - breaking» user - experience concepts of Peter Meyers and Georgina Moore's excellent discussion on what happens when corporate marketing people take to the choppy waters of social media....

Aside from constant innovation and improvement, the company has created valuable social reading applications that enhance the reading experience and they have also aspired to take on the best in the market in terms of hardware.

The Institute draws on the talent, innovation and motivation of the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, and from the magnificent facilities at Fort Baker and Cavallo Point — the Lodge at the Golden Gate, to foster relationships with a diverse, cross-sector array of groups, organizations and individuals who share a common commitment to environmental and social action and change.

The 900 - room all - suite luxury ocean - front resort is due to open in December 2017 in the Maya Riviera, the first accommodation made from start to finish by the consortium Grupo Experiencias Xcaret, which prides itself on its commitment to sustainability, social responsibility and innovation.

At Casual Connect USA there are tracks that cover everything from VR & AR, innovation, and social casino.

Working outwards from this moment, the exhibition traces several related phenomena: the artistic innovations of poured paint and stained raw canvas; the social implications of decoration; authorial control vs. materiality; the body and painting; and the image of the woman painter and related questions of gender and identity.

Participants select from three individual themes or tracks: social responsibility of the designer in society, typography and type design, or advancing the discipline through theory and innovation.

The exhibition features Isabel's remarkable designs that combine innovation of form, material and structure with a keen practicality and Ruben's vibrant drawings and paintings that range from abstractions to astute social commentaries.

Both Gates's and Chen's work may inspire social change, but it's the power of creativity, not of compassion, that spurs them from one genre - defying innovation to the next.

Key innovations from this period — which included the addition of exuberant color to his papier - mâché forms, the incorporation of furniture both as art object and as social incubator, and the inclusion of work by other artists in his own installations — resulted in dynamic, frequently interactive installations that helped to redefine the possibilities of sculpture and the ways in which art is experienced.

The problem is that building momentum for the level of technological, financial and social innovation required to speed the move away from fossil fuels requires far more than a short - term shot of offerings for breakthrough research and rebates for attic insulation and fireplace inserts (one of which we are about to utilize).

Therefore, you shouldn't distinguish the idea of technological innovation from the idea of social activism.

and progress will more likely come from social and technological innovations and less from top - down legislation or treaties.

The advances will have to include social innovations, ranging from finding ways across America's paralyzed political divide to bridging the glaring global divide between the energy haves and have - nots.