SIXSeoul13 Day 1: Co-designing SIX Australia - Carolyn Curtis

Co-designing
SIX AUS
Sunday, 8 September 2013

First,
a bit of
history

2009: “Self-service online platform”
2120 people
signed up on
the email list
619 people created
website profiles

2009: “Self-service online platform”
Very successful
at giving people a way to
put their hand up and
identify as social innovators

It didn’t
endure
Strong
interest
but

How are we
going
forward?

Co-designing
a SIX Node

In government, non-profits,
business, academia, community
groups, social enterprise, tech
startups, & social innovation
Co-design sessions
with people across
Australia working to
create social change

How do we create a
network in Australia that is
SO USEFUL
that it helps people create more
impact and so valuable that
they’re willing to pay to help
SUSTAIN IT
?

WHO
do we
focus on in
Australia?
1

3,000
“Social Innovators”
1 WHO

40,000
Social change
decision makers
1 WHO

What
CHANGE
do we want
to create?
2

What CHANGE
do we want to create?
1 WHO
2 CHANGE
GREAT
WORK
Well-intentioned
BAD
WORK

1 WHO
2 CHANGE
3%
success
rates
-0.5%
success
rates
program design
processes that rely on
hope to create change
Well-intentioned
BAD
WORK

1 WHO
2 CHANGE People want to do
good work

1 WHO
good work
but they keep
making the same
old broken things

1 WHO
good work
but they keep
making the same
old broken things
because that’s
all they’ve
ever seen

at doing good
GETTING GOOD
1 WHO
2 CHANGE

at doing good
GETTING GOOD
tightly curated content that
tells you what’s good, why,
and how you might apply
learnings to your work
1 WHO
2 CHANGE

What would
people pay
for to help
SUSTAIN
the change?
3

3 SUSTAIN
Coaches &
Mentors
Conferences &Retreats
Tools &
Resources
Matchmaking
Stories of
Success & Failure
1 WHO
2 CHANGE

lure
1 WHO
2 CHANGE
3 SUSTAIN

6 stories about
MEASUREMENT
Visual measurement for communities
Measuring goal-setting with familieslure
1 WHO
2 CHANGE
3 SUSTAIN

6 stories about
MEASUREMENT
Visual measurement for communities
Measuring goal-setting with familieslure
1 WHO
2 CHANGE
3 SUSTAIN
$99/yr

I’m too busy to
read all of the
cutting edge
articles. Tell me
the 3 things I
absolutely have
to read.
I’d pay for that.
Bessie,
Social Innovation
-

It’s hard to get out of people how
things work. We’d love to connect
our team to useful inspiration.
- Emily & Alison, Government

Ian,
University
Who are our thought
leaders in Australia? We
need good debates.
- Ian, RMIT University

Value for me
would be
highlights to
projects, ideas,
& people we’d
want to back.
Stacey,
Philanthropy
-

What’s
next?

Prototype curated
content base offer

Prototype curated
content base offer
Coaches & Mentors
Conferences &Retreats
Tools & Resources
Matchmaking
+ trying other things

Create more
change that
can endure
So we can

sixaus.org.au
join our beta
help us understand how
much of our content is
relevant internationally...
@sixaus
@OzInnovation

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