What is Design Public?
Design Public is a series of conversations about design and innovation in the public interest.This blog is curated by the Center for Knowledge Societies, the innovation consulting firm that guides the establishment of the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation.
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Tag Archives: development
Leveraging Technology for Small and Marginal Farmers: A Conversation with Vinay Kumar of Digital Green
Last week, I spoke with Vinay Kumar, COO of Digital Green, a platform that deploys technology and social organization to affect sustained social change. Digital Green communicates locally relevant best practices to rural communities using videos that are of the … Continue reading
One Week Until Design Public Conclave
We are one week away from Design Public III: Trust, Participation, Innovation, a conclave bringing together government officials, private sector, social sector, funding agencies, specialists, entrepreneurs, and academics to discuss and debate the challenges, goals, and strategies of transforming India … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, cis, collaboration, communication, conclave, delhi, designpublic, development, event, google, government, IBM, India, india@75, innovation, LiveMint, National Innovation Council, National Museum, participation, private, public, rural, technology, trust
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Innovation works best when government does least?
The question of the nature of government’s role in social issues and the market has been debated to an impasse. So too, it seems, has its role in innovation. Does government support foster innovation? Or, does innovation work best when … Continue reading
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Tagged designpublic, development, economist, economy, government, innovation, open innovation, private, product, research, science, technology
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New NESTA Report on Innovation in India
Can growth of higher education keep up with India’s human potential? Can India’s low cost innovations disrupt the global economy? What effects do abstract social and creative innovations have in the Indian context? These are some of the questions that … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, business, democracy, designpublic, development, goals, goverment, governance in africa, India, innovation, kristen bound, nesta, report, world bank
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China’s Need for Innovation
Minxin Pei, professor of government at Clairmont McKenna College in California recently wrote an article “Nixon Then, China Now†explaining China’s weaknesses hindering its ability to truly compete as a world power. He argues that China’s one-party regime results in … Continue reading
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Tagged business, china, creativity, design public, development, innovation, one party system
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Contextualizing Bihar: What’s Going on in the Neighborhood?
A lot of the work that CKS does is focused in India’s eastern state of Bihar, which is the third largest state in the country, with a population of over 100 million. Our work there covers a range of sectors, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangladesh, Bihar, CKS, development, India, innovation, Nepal, Nitish Kumar
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