10. - 130 Participants - From 23 countries: New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, China, Latvia, Portugal, Italy, UK, USA, Brazil and many more
11. The conversations were dazzling… truly the highlight were the people. Tonya Surmanhttp://socialinnovation.ca/blog/meeting-of-social-innovation-minds-lisbon
12. « Un belle aperçu du dynamisme et de la profusion d’idées qui règne dans ce secteur » Stéphane Vincent http://la27eregion.fr
19. This is European Social Innovation : A call for inspiring stories
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21. “More than ever before, cities are home to humanity’s great expectations… …they are also home to increasing social disparities, poverty, pollution, waste, and environmental problems.”
22. Big cities getting bigger; 100new cities with one million residents by 2025 Village economies transitioning from agriculture-based to industry-based Trillions of dollars in stimulus packages worldwide for infrastructure 50% of world population urban by 2008, 60% by 2030 500M people urbanized in the next five years A World in Transition… Source: Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability Through Innovation Nicola Villa and Wolfgang Wagener, Cisco IBSG
23. “The losers launched websites. The winners launched vibrant communities. The losers built walled gardens. The winners built public squares. The losers innovated internally. The winners innovated with their users.” (Tapscott & Williams – ‘How Mass Communication Changes Everything’).
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25. “What is needed is not new or adapted instruments for knowledge transfer, but something quite different: the spaces in which interactions can take place” (Geoffrey Crossick, A lecture to the Royal Society of Arts). We Need Spaces Where Interactions Take Place
