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Crowdsourcing for Global Good – The Rise of Student Case Competitions
Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit- at Crowd Sourcing Week Copenhagen
16th Oct [email protected]
About Myself
• PAST – Hail from a remote region of
the North-East part of India – Shillong (also known as Scotland of the East)
– Masters in Biotechnology (IN)
– PhD in Biophysics & nanotechnology (DK)
– MBA in Sustainability (DK)– Researcher in Organizational
Innovation & Interdisciplinary Collaboration (DK)
• PRESENT– Head of Open Innovation
@AU Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
– Gamification researcher and practitioner
– University-Industry Network co-ordinator
– Entrepreneurship & Innovation Educator
– Expatriate Entrepreneurship researcher
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THE ERA of CONNECTIVITY
2020
4 Billion
Connected people
25+ Million
Apps25+
Billion Embedded &
Intelligent systems
50 Trillion
GBs of Data
Data Source: IDC, Intel, McCafe 2012
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GLOBAL PROBLEMS ARE ALSO RISING
Global Warming
Resource Scarcity
Economic InequalityMassive Unemployment
Global Poverty
Etc. Etc. Etc…….
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THE CHALLENGE OFGLOBAL POVERTY
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Total Human Population
Source: Worldmapper
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Total GDP wealth distribution
Source: Worldmapper
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Global Poverty
Source: Worldmapper
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Global Poverty map as defined by the world bank on less than US$ 1.5/day
Source: CIA Factbook 2008
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Presenting a more correct picture of poverty
Source: Alkire & Santos, 2010http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/mpi/
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Presenting a more correct picture of poverty
Source: Alkire & Santos, 2010
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BUT in HERE LIES THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL…
CROWDSOURCING enabled by TECHNOLOGY
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WHAT IS THE SINGLE THING THAT HAS
CHANGED AFRICA FOR AFRICANS TODAY MORE
THAN ANYTHING ELSE?
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Mobile tipped to grow 60% in Africa passing 1 billion subscriptions by 2016- November 2011, Informa (Matthew Reed)
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Global Poverty / Africa
Mobile in Africa is morepowerful than the west
Source: Graphic by Jon Gosier of Appfrica Labs
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Development/ Business
Development powered by Technology & people
Harassment of WomenEgypt
Source: http://harassmap.org/main?l=en_US
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CROWDSOURCING enabled by TECHNOLOGYhas the POWER to CHANGE THINGS
But WHO IS A MAJOR DEMOGRAPHIC OF THIS ”CROWD”
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Students….@rajiv_VB
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BUT WAIT A SECOND…
Isn’t Education apparently the enemy of creativity?
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The Student DIVIDEND in crowdsourcing….
HIGH NUMBERS MOBILITY
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The Student DIVIDEND in crowdsourcing….
RESILIENCE
ABSENCE OF BIAS
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IGNITING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT…
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STUDENTS + ENTREPRENEURSHIP +
TECHNOLGY = WIN-WIN?
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A KEY INGREDIENT THAT IS STILL MISSING FROM THE EQUATION - PURPOSE
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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Filling the purpose gap…
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#SELFIE
Vs.
#CHARITY
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
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The data that I refer to is STUDENT CHALLENGES
i .e. STUDENT CASE COMPETITIONS WITHIN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Case competition Location Prize Started1 Hult Prize USA (Global) USD 1 Million Spring 20102 Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship Case
CompletitionBrigham Young University (National)
2010
3 Oikos case writing competition(educational case writing)
CHF 5000, 2000, 1000 2003
4 YYC Social Enterprise Case Competition
University of Calgary, Canada
Internship in Kenya 2014
5 Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition
Northwestern University (Global)
USD 5000 2007
6 VERB (Grew from DELL Social Innovation competition (DSIC) which ran from 2007 until 2013
USD 25000 2014
7 The Games for Change Challenge for students(digital game development with a cause)
Europe (Global) Invitation to series of professional events to showcase the game
2013
8 Hong Kong Social Entreprise Challenge (HKSEC) Hong Kong Implementation of the enterprise under mentorship.2 awards of upto HKD 60000
2007
9 The President’s Challenge Harvard (for Harvard school students and post-docs)
Mentoring the project in i-lab for top 10 teams. Grand prize USD 70000 and runners up share USD 30000.
2012
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A Social Entrepreneur is not a social worker!Social Entrepreneurship is not an NGO or NGO work!IT IS A BUSINESS – SOCIAL BUSINESS
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What is Social Entrepreneurship?
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Definition (Investopedia): “A person who pursues an innovative idea with the potential to solve a community problem”.
Some Notable Quotes:
“Social entrepreneurs are mad scientists in the lab,” - Pamella Hartigan, Director SCSE at Oxford University
“They’re harbingers of new ways of doing business.” - Forbes
“Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society's most pressing social problems” - Ashoka Fellows program
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“crowdsourcing brilliant solutions”For yourself (Start-ups)
“crowdsourcing brilliant solutions”For someone else (NGOs)
24/09/14Prize winner announced
29/10/14Early-Bird deadline
NEW CHALLENGE
18/11/142nd deadline
17/12/15Final deadline
9/01/15 Reg-Finalistsannounced
SELECTION SELECTION
17/12/15Regional Finals5 cities + online
01/05/15Accelerator start
01/08/15Accelerator Finish
23/09/15Final Pitches at CGI Annual
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That’s almost 1 YEAR of STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
That’s PURPOSE…
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2015 CHALLENGE
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Not a talk on Gamification (Speaker Prison alert)
Educator Version to be released in November 2014
The Entrepreneurship game – About Entrepreneurship, uncertainty and YOU