Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Live Feed from InterAction Forum 2013 Twitter Account - Panel featuring Aidmatrix President & CEO [Read from the Bottom Up]

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    The world is moved not only be mighty shoves of the heros, but of the tiny shoves of the honest worker - Helen Keller
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    Spahn: We are a diverse community We face tough & divisive issues Real strength of InterAction is to find way fwd thru tough issues
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    Collective good requires collective effort. Sam Worthington
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    Worthington honors Kathy Spahn thanking her for her service as Board Chair .
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    Corporate social responsibility here is stay. The reality is government funding is shrinking. The future is looking beyond grants
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    Q: Sucess looks v different for NGOs than for companies. Success to NGOs is ending poverty, not a tech problem, it's political.
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    Jahani: Incentives & measurements need change. Example project treats work as investment, communities have "skin in the game"
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    Q: Concerned innovation will become another "flavor of the month." How do we change incentive patterns to create long term impacts?
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    . has culture of "constructive disatisfaction" need to scale across multiple levels to understand what NGOs face.
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    . Don't do enough where ngos & private industry go into countries together. Some countries would welcome this.
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    Nitze: Celebrate failure. Allow failure to be an active part of moving forward
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    Nitze: We look @ innovations that failed 5 yrs ago that then resurfaces multiple times & gets refined & can be invested in.
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    Q: Innovation involves moving fwd, but is there a role for historical thinking? Forgotten innovation that ought to be recovered?
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    Spahn opens floor for questions.
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    . Intersection of public private going to become much closer. Will see people move from private to public sector & back.
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    McCallum: It hurts me to see something work really well, but bc it costs lots of $ to see it not continue.
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    Spahn asks panelists to share some of their "scars & bruises" when innovating
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    Wangerin: Innovation gives opportunity for ground-up solutions to be filtered up to the top.
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    Wangerin: Change is v. difficult, & need to invest a tremendous amount of time internally to get buy-in.
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    Jahani: We should not simply say we're innovative for the sake of innovation, we should look at the why behind.
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    Jahani: To what extend can we look for new tools to measure change?
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    Jahani: People say it's important to measure ourselves, but collecting good data is really costly. Who is going to pay for that?
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    Spahn: I still believe innovation sometimes is NOT what is needed. What are limits the to innovation?
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    Nitze: What is intended impact? What are outcomes? What are strategies that drive outcomes? What are metrics to measure outcomes?
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    Nitze: If you really want to scale, you MUST have data.
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    Nitze: Telling great story will no longer do it, to get level of investment to be able to scale. All funders looking for social ROI
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    McCallum: NGOs systems need to be able to work offline & sync w/ online
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    McCallum: 1 person can truly change the world. If somebody "gets it" & sticks to it, they can truly change the world.
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    . How do we reach the poorest communities, in the most rural communities & measure impact?
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    . NGOs supply chains run separately, looses efficiencies.
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    . Treat supply chain as strategic. For NGO perspective, supply folks need to have expertise in that field.
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    Jahani: There has to be a mechanism to provide ongoing support, private sector can play this role w/ our help & support. 2/2
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    Jahani: Our data & experience tells us we cannot actual achieve stability. 1/2
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    Nitze: Countries, regions, states most fertile in innovation have stakeholders w/ a norm for collaboration, solving shared probs.
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    Previous tweets credited to Wangerin , were McCallum .
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    Nitze: Critical that actors have an understanding of motivators, and diff. definitions of success. Enables better collaboration.
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    Nitze: How do you create fertile environments in diff states to enable orgs to thrive?
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    Wangerin: Who wants to take risks with new technologies? What are risks? Sometimes mindset is not there.
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    Wangerin: We need to understand diff of non profit & for profit. The reason we care abt money is to help people.
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    Innovation doesn't have to come from technology, can come from NGOs getting together & using platform that is different
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    . In the NGO community, how can you use the scale of a ?
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    . For innovation to work, it has to be scaleable & work for multiple kinds of people. Experience has to be consistent.
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    Spahn: When you innovate, what makes an innovation take hold?
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    Spahn: Innovation is a disrupter. One way to disrupt is to combine the knowledge from these two sectors: private & public.
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    Worthington: How can we move beyond our indiv. orgs to the type of scale needed to engage w lessons learned in private sector?
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    . announces Producer Christopher Dawson as winner for Excellence in International Reporting
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    Panelists also include: from & Gregory Wangerin 2/2
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    Panelists are: Lisa Nitze from , Scott McCallum from, , Dr. Mirza Jahani from 1/2
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    Plenary starting: Kathy Spahn from , will moderate this discussion abt how NGOs & corporations can drive innovation.
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