Crowdsourcing for Global Good - Rise of Student Case Competitions

Crowdsourcing for Global Good – The
Rise of Student Case Competitions
Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit
- at Crowd Sourcing Week Copenhagen
16th Oct 2014
rvb@au.dk

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

THE ERA of CONNECTIVITY
2020
4
Billion
Connected people
25+
Million
Apps
50
Trillion
GBs of Data
25+
Billion
Embedded &
Intelligent systems
Data Source: IDC, Intel, McCafe 2012
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GLOBAL PROBLEMS ARE ALSO
RISING
Etc. Etc. Etc…….
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THE CHALLENGE OF
GLOBAL POVERTY
Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit @rajiv_VB

Total Human Population
Source: Worldmapper

Total GDP wealth distribution
Source: Worldmapper

Global Poverty
Source: Worldmapper

Global Poverty map as defined by the world bank
on less than US$ 1.5/day
Source: CIA Factbook 2008

Presenting a more correct picture of poverty
Source: Alkire & Santos, 2010
http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/mpi/

Presenting a more correct picture of poverty
Source: Alkire & Santos, 2010

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?

Mobile tipped to grow 60% in Africa passing
1 billion subscriptions by 2016
- November 2011, Informa (Matthew Reed)

Global Poverty / Africa
Mobile in Africa is more
powerful than the west
Source: Graphic by Jon Gosier of Appfrica Labs

Development/ Business
Development powered by
Technology & people
Harassment of Women
Egypt
Source: http://harassmap.org/main?l=en_US

CROWDSOURCING enabled by TECHNOLOGY
has the POWER to CHANGE THINGS
But WHO IS A MAJOR DEMOGRAPHIC OF THIS
”CROWD”
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Students….
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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?
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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Instagram
#SELFIE
Vs.
#CHARITY
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
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The data that I refer to is
STUDENT CHALLENGES
i .e. STUDENT CASE COMPET I T IONS WI THIN
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Case competition Location Prize Started
1 Hult Prize USA (Global) USD 1 Million Spring 2010
2 Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship Case
Completition
Brigham 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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What is Social Entrepreneurship?
A Social Entrepreneur is not a social worker!
Social Entrepreneurship is not an NGO or NGO
work!
IT IS A BUSINESS – SOCIAL BUSINESS

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

NEW CHALLENGE
“crowdsourcing brilliant solutions”
For yourself (Start-ups)
“crowdsourcing brilliant solutions”
For someone else (NGOs)
24/09/14
Prize winner
announced
29/10/14
Early-Bird
deadline
18/11/14
2nd deadline
9/01/15 Reg-
Finalists
announced
01/05/15
Accelerator start
SELECTION SELECTION
17/12/15
Final deadline
17/12/15
Regional Finals
5 cities + online
23/09/15
Final Pitches
at CGI
Annual
01/08/15
Accelerator
Finish
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T h a t ’ s a lmo s t 1 Y EAR o f
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
T h a t ’ s
PURPOSE…
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2015 CHALLENGE
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Not a talk on Gamification
(Speaker Prison alert)
The Entrepreneurship game – About Entrepreneurship, uncertainty and YOU
Educator Version to be released in November 2014

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