Is social good the next killer app? SXSW 2015.Eve Simon
Core conversation from SXSW 2015:
Something sexy happened at SXSW 2014 that didn’t involve Lady GaGa: an unprecedented number of do-gooding Geekerati showed up, wanting to change the world. Does this mean that social good has “made it”, or just become the latest trend to generate lots of hype but little impact? Shiny new platforms, brands and tools promise game-changing technologies & society-saving outcomes, but do they get us any closer to actually solving the world’s most challenging social problems?
It’s time we put the SXSW community to work doing what it does best - leading industry innovation. Come to this session ready to get your hands dirty exploring what authentic, lasting social change could really look like.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_IAP32981
Greenwash is with us, and unless we take action, it is likely to be with us to
stay. Greenwash is an environmental claim which is unsubstantiated (a fib)
or irrelevant (a distraction). Found in advertising, PR or on packaging, and
made about people, organisations and products. Greenwash is an old concept,
wrapped in a very modern incarnation.
Is social good the next killer app? SXSW 2015.Eve Simon
Core conversation from SXSW 2015:
Something sexy happened at SXSW 2014 that didn’t involve Lady GaGa: an unprecedented number of do-gooding Geekerati showed up, wanting to change the world. Does this mean that social good has “made it”, or just become the latest trend to generate lots of hype but little impact? Shiny new platforms, brands and tools promise game-changing technologies & society-saving outcomes, but do they get us any closer to actually solving the world’s most challenging social problems?
It’s time we put the SXSW community to work doing what it does best - leading industry innovation. Come to this session ready to get your hands dirty exploring what authentic, lasting social change could really look like.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_IAP32981
Greenwash is with us, and unless we take action, it is likely to be with us to
stay. Greenwash is an environmental claim which is unsubstantiated (a fib)
or irrelevant (a distraction). Found in advertising, PR or on packaging, and
made about people, organisations and products. Greenwash is an old concept,
wrapped in a very modern incarnation.
The Rise of China's State-Led Media Dynasty in Africa Eric Olander
By Yu-Shan Wu/SAIA
China is no exception to the global rise of developing media, who are challenging dominant traditional players. China's state-owned media are increasing their influence in the world as an instrument of its grander soft power engagement. The paper seeks to understand this new trend, particularly in the case of Africa. It traces China's media engagement on the continent, explains how strategies have changed in the 2000s and seeks to understand some of the challenges of transferring a global strategy to Africa.
A lecture about China\'s ascent to Great Power status through hard ans soft power. The domestic difficulties and the conditionings of the international order. How reliable is China in this process? How the future generation of leaders will handle this difficult process?
Open Access Scholarship and China’s Soft PowerDr Xiang REN
This is a presentation given at the ICAS9 international conference. It draws on Joseph Nye’s concept of ‘Soft Power’ to explore the role that OA is playing in helping to reshape publishing and scholarship in China. It introduces the green and gold open access developments in China and discusses the dynamics and constraints in increasing the status and impact of Chinese scholarship and re-positioning China as an international leader in open knowledge movements.
The notion of soft power I wanted to address in this presentation can be quoted from Laotze; The best of man is like water,
Which benefits all things, and does not contend with them, which flows in places that others disdain, where it is in harmony with the Way.
Slides used in a presentation by Jeremie Averous, Project Value Delivery's Senior Managing Partner, with the Singapore Chapter of the Project Management Institute on 6 March 2012
Simon Berry presents his incredible ColaLife concept - using Coca-Cola's amazing distribution channels to send essential medical channels to some of the most difficult to reach corners of the planet.
23.06.2010
2013 Reviewed - A Year In Trends by Future FoundationForesight Factory
Trends and insight specialists Future Foundation take a look back at its consumer trends predictions over the last year. What made the grade? What has changed? How does our data stack up? And what might be the biggest trends for 2014?
The Rise of China's State-Led Media Dynasty in Africa Eric Olander
By Yu-Shan Wu/SAIA
China is no exception to the global rise of developing media, who are challenging dominant traditional players. China's state-owned media are increasing their influence in the world as an instrument of its grander soft power engagement. The paper seeks to understand this new trend, particularly in the case of Africa. It traces China's media engagement on the continent, explains how strategies have changed in the 2000s and seeks to understand some of the challenges of transferring a global strategy to Africa.
A lecture about China\'s ascent to Great Power status through hard ans soft power. The domestic difficulties and the conditionings of the international order. How reliable is China in this process? How the future generation of leaders will handle this difficult process?
Open Access Scholarship and China’s Soft PowerDr Xiang REN
This is a presentation given at the ICAS9 international conference. It draws on Joseph Nye’s concept of ‘Soft Power’ to explore the role that OA is playing in helping to reshape publishing and scholarship in China. It introduces the green and gold open access developments in China and discusses the dynamics and constraints in increasing the status and impact of Chinese scholarship and re-positioning China as an international leader in open knowledge movements.
The notion of soft power I wanted to address in this presentation can be quoted from Laotze; The best of man is like water,
Which benefits all things, and does not contend with them, which flows in places that others disdain, where it is in harmony with the Way.
Slides used in a presentation by Jeremie Averous, Project Value Delivery's Senior Managing Partner, with the Singapore Chapter of the Project Management Institute on 6 March 2012
Simon Berry presents his incredible ColaLife concept - using Coca-Cola's amazing distribution channels to send essential medical channels to some of the most difficult to reach corners of the planet.
23.06.2010
2013 Reviewed - A Year In Trends by Future FoundationForesight Factory
Trends and insight specialists Future Foundation take a look back at its consumer trends predictions over the last year. What made the grade? What has changed? How does our data stack up? And what might be the biggest trends for 2014?
A Presentation about the deep-seated anxiety consumers and clients feel about Climate Change and the leadership role brands and businesses can take in empowering people to address the future with confidence.
The Customer Revolution: 3 Remarkable Stories to Live ByVision Critical
There's a revolution going on.
We are living in the age of the empowered customer. Fuelled by the widespread adoption of cloud, social, and mobile technologies, our customers now have access to more information, more choices, and more opportunities to broadcast their opinions than ever before.
Equip yourself for today’s empowered customer. Read this Slideshare presentation to learn about 3 companies that are showing what it means to thrive in the customer revolution.
To learn more, read the manifesto for companies in the age of the empowered customer: http://bit.ly/custrevs
The role of innovation in augmenting healthcare - the ColaLife StoryColaLife
Presentation given by Simon Berry, CEO, ColaLife, at the Africa Health Extension Summit, 27-28 Nov 2019.
Key themes: why we need innovation in healthcare; what is innovation?; how to ensure innovations have an impact; how to move innovations into the mainstream.
Narrative is provided in the notes.
KYTS Programme Final Steering & Learning Group meeting 6-Sep-18ColaLife
Slidedeck to support the KYTS Programme Final Steering & Learning Group meeting on 6-Sep-18.
The KYTS Programme increased availability, access and use of ORS and Zinc therapy for home treatment of diarrhoea in children under 5 via private and public-sector development in Lusaka Province, Zambia
Considerations in Last Mile Delivery in Access to Medicines – the ColaLife StoryColaLife
Considerations in Last Mile Delivery in Access to Medicines
Out of the box thinking and partnership – the ColaLife Story.
This presentation was given at the 'Access to Medicines' conference hosted by Takeda in Geneva on 25-May-17. It describes how access to diarrhoea treatment was transformed in Zambia.
Diarrhoea is the second biggest infectious killer of under 5 children and yet we know how to treat diarrhoea and the medicine is simple, safe and cheap. The problem is that 99% of diarrhoea cases do not receive the recommended treatment: ORS and Zinc. The last remaining barrier is access.
ColaLife - Cross-sector partnerships - new paradigmsColaLife
Presentation to the Stakeholder Engagement Event at Middlesex University outlining how ColaLife had partnered with the academic sector in our work. 6-Jul-16.
Progress update on the Kit Yamoyo scale-up in Zambia for the stakeholders who support public health in Zambia. The meeting was held at the CDC offices in Lusaka.
For on-going updates please see: http://colalife.org/status
Royal Society of Medicine - Medical Innovations - Kit Yamoyo and its value chainColaLife
Presentation given by ColaLife's Simon Berry at the Royal Society of Medicine's 11th Medical Innovations Summit 2015 on 12-Sep-15.
This includes a brief history of ColaLife, the learning from the operational trial in Zambia and progress towards national scale-up.
ColaLife Presentation to the Janssen Global Public Health Team, 26-Aug-15ColaLife
A 40 minute presentation covering the background to ColaLife, the ColaLife trial and progress towards scale-up. The presentation also covers the impacts and their measurement, the ColaLife Innovation Map and the scale-up version of the voucher system.
ColaLife presentation to the ANDi Workshop, Addis Ababa, Jan-15ColaLife
ColaLife presentation to the ANDi Workshop, Addis Ababa, Jan-15. The presentation is just 5 minutes long and has six sections:
1. The scope of our work
2. Our starting point
3. What we did
4. What happened
5. The effects
6. recommendations for ANDi
Kit Yamoyo design review - how the trial findings influenced the design of the Kit Yamoyo anti-diarrhoea kit used in the subsequent national scale-up in Zambia.
Presentation to PATH (Seattle, Washington DC and San Francisco), 23-May-14ColaLife
Presentation to PATH staff on 23-May-14.
Delivered in Seattle with a video link to Washington and audio link to San Francisco.
Download the presentation for the speech narrative that is contained in the notes to the slides.
Presentation to University of Michigan | 19-May-14ColaLife
Presentation to the University of Michigan, 19-May-14, Ann Arbor, Michigan at the invitation of the William Davidson Institute.
Download the presentation for the speech narrative that is contained in the notes to the slides.
After dinner speech at the 26th DuPont Packaging Awards, 15-May-14, Wilmington, Delaware, USA.
Download the presentation for the speech narrative that is contained in the notes to the slides.
ColaLife presention to C2MTL | 28-May-2014ColaLife
Keynote presentation given at C2MTL on 28-May-2014.
20 mins, fully annotated.
This gives the brief history of ColaLife, describes the ColaLife Trial in Zambia (COTZ), presents our key findings and describes our strategy for impact.
ColaLife | Key milestones - 1985 to Dec-13ColaLife
This timeline highlights some of the key milestones since the birth of the ColaLife idea in 1985 to the end of the trial and move to scale-up in Dec-13.
It focussed on the key people involved and describes how the relationship with The Coca-Cola Company and SABMiller has developed.
Additional milestone:
May 2010
Together, Simon, Jane and Rohit submitted their first proposal to the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) who were seeking out innovative financing and delivery mechanisms for ACTs under the Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria (AMFm).
The proposal got to final stages of consideration and reinforced the global interest in and potential of the model.
Correction: Rohit Ramchandani's title at CIDA was Senior Health Advisor, not Public Policy Advisor.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
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Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
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An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
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Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
15. At this point in the presentation an animation showing how the AidPod works is played. To view it now, pause this presentation and click here to view the animation on YouTube.
32. Method Contents Making use of un-used space Locally determined – social products How the idea has developed
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34. Prof Don Nutbeam Global health Dr Ian Goldman African community- led development Teilmann Nieuwoudt Emerging market logistics Rohit Ramchandani Canadian Development Agency, PhD Troy Kennedy Condoms for Africa Samira Daswani ColaLife Volunteer Coordinator, USA Alex Spina ColaLife Volunteer Coordinator, UK Craig Nakagawa CEO Village Reach
35. Leveraging consumer power ‘ Shopping is more important than voting’ Andrew Wilson, Director of the UK's Ashridge Centre for Business and Society
36. Wellesley College, US Nottingham Trent, UK La Martiniere, India Warwick University, UK
39. Universally replicable distribution channel. 80% of Coca-Cola is distributed in bottles and crates like these
40. Local determination of the: • WHAT • WHEN • WHERE By organisations with long-term responsibility for public health Universally replicable distribution channel. 80% of Coca-Cola is distributed in bottles and crates like these
41. Local determination of the: • WHAT • WHEN • WHERE By organisations with long-term responsibility for public health Local determination of what happens to products at the destination. Options include: • Sale • Given free • Collected by community health worker or local clinic • etc Universally replicable distribution channel. 80% of Coca-Cola is distributed in bottles and crates like these
44. to be continued . . . . PLEASE join the Facebook group *AND* invite your friends
Editor's Notes
My name is Simon Berry and I am the founder and leader of ColaLife – a campaign to get Coca-Cola to open up its distribution networks to take social products that save lives.
As an individual, I certainly don’t have much in the way of ‘hard power’….But do I have any ‘soft power’, can I create it? Can I wield it? Well, to my surprise - and probably yours - I came here today in this brand new hybrid car. It’s not mine. It’s been loaned to me by Honda, because I’m speaking about ColaLife - an innovative idea they want their customers to associate with their products. ColaLife is a new non-profit organisation, with no employees and no income. So, how did it happen that Honda have lent me their car? Well, I didn’t set out to ‘attract’ a new car, but there are things I do want, and that 12,000 ColaLife supporters also want - and that’s what I’m going to speak about today.
Just in case you didn’t believe it!
ColaLife is built on 3 facts: FACT 1 : You can buy a Coca-Cola virtually anywhere you go even in the most remote areas of developing countries
FACT 2 : 1 in 5 children in these areas die before their 5 th birthday from preventable causes like dehydration from diarrhoea. This is not a new problem. 4,000 young children die everyday in Africa alone and this has been the case since records began.
FACT 3 : … need to do things differently
Video – sound required – source: AidPod Mark III.avi – 2 min 46 sec (2:46) We are now on Mark III of the aidpod and this video describes the key features.
. . . . But with a lot of wriggle room . . . .
[Embedded audio file: iPM_ Commitment from Coca-Cola.mp3, 4min 54secs . . . . But with a lot of wriggle room . . . .
I spent the first 12 years of my career living and working in South America and Africa on the British Overseas Aid Programme. In 1988 I was working in NE Zambia. A very remote area with only 2 people per square kilometre where 'slash and burn' was the traditional form of agriculture. This is where the ColaLife story started. Despite the level of development of the area, its remoteness and the shockingly high levels of child mortality you could get a Coca-Cola in most places.
I tried to spread the idea but I got nowhere. This was in a time and place with no telephone let alone internet access. Our sole link to the outside world was an old fashioned telex machine. I got nowhere.
So on 18 May 2008 I set up a Facebook Group: 'Let's talk to Coca Cola about saving the World's children'. Note how humble I was with my expectations. At this point I just wanted to get in front of Coca-Cola to talk to them about the idea. I invited all my friends. I had about 100 at the time and slowly the group started to grow.
UPDATE: THE MULTI_CHANNEL APPROACH _ going where people are … 400+ blog articles etc The Facebook Group has been the foundation of this campaign BUT it’s really important in my view to take a multi-channel approach. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket or corral yourself into a single website (or portal). The more channels you are in the more likely people are to find you.
1 telling people about your idea and gathering supporters…
I then went on to the BBC's iPM blog and suggested that they debate the idea. I didn't get a response in week one. So I tried again the next week. No luck. In week three I lined one or two people to back the post I made and we were off. I went into the Millbank studio on 21/5/08 and was interviewed by Eddie Mair. This interview was used during the rest of the week by the iPM Team to put together a 10 minute feature . . . . . . which included a response for Coca-Cola's Head of Stakeholder Relations, Salvatore Gabola. Salvatore invited me to Brussels to talk about the idea in more detail and I went on 16/6/08. We got on well and we got a commitment to include the ColaLife idea in research Coca-Cola were about to do into their distribution network in east Africa. Coca-Cola also said that they would feed information about the progress of the research to me for my Blog.
I then went on to the BBC's iPM blog and suggested that they debate the idea. I didn't get a response in week one. So I tried again the next week. No luck. In week three I lined one or two people to back the post I made and we were off. I went into the Millbank studio on 21/5/08 and was interviewed by Eddie Mair. This interview was used during the rest of the week by the iPM Team to put together a 10 minute feature . . . . . . which included a response for Coca-Cola's Head of Stakeholder Relations, Salvatore Gabola. Salvatore invited me to Brussels to talk about the idea in more detail and I went on 16/6/08. We got on well and we got a commitment to include the ColaLife idea in research Coca-Cola were about to do into their distribution network in east Africa. Coca-Cola also said that they would feed information about the progress of the research to me for my Blog.
I then went on to the BBC's iPM blog and suggested that they debate the idea. I didn't get a response in week one. So I tried again the next week. No luck. In week three I lined one or two people to back the post I made and we were off. I went into the Millbank studio on 21/5/08 and was interviewed by Eddie Mair. This interview was used during the rest of the week by the iPM Team to put together a 10 minute feature . . . . . . which included a response for Coca-Cola's Head of Stakeholder Relations, Salvatore Gabola. Salvatore invited me to Brussels to talk about the idea in more detail and I went on 16/6/08. We got on well and we got a commitment to include the ColaLife idea in research Coca-Cola were about to do into their distribution network in east Africa. Coca-Cola also said that they would feed information about the progress of the research to me for my Blog.
1 telling people about your idea and gathering supporters…
Convening people around the idea had got the BBC’s attention and helped grow the campaign. But these people have been an inspiration. They have challenged the idea and this has forced me to develop the idea and it has got better and better. The original idea was to replace a bottle in one in 10 crates with a ‘colalife tube’ and for the tube to contain Oral Rehydration Salts.
Two key challenges to this approach were: Why Oral Rehydration Salts? And, more importantly, removing a bottle will damage our profits and the kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Why not make use of the unused space in the crate? And make it up to local people with the necessary expertise decide what should go in the container. It was Eddie Mair, in a BBC Radio 4 interview, who coined the phrase ‘aidpod’ and it’s stuck.
Two key challenges to this approach were: Why Oral Rehydration Salts? And, more importantly, removing a bottle will damage our profits and the kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Why not make use of the unused space in the crate? And make it up to local people with the necessary expertise decide what should go in the container. It was Eddie Mair, in a BBC Radio 4 interview, who coined the phrase ‘aidpod’ and it’s stuck.
1 telling people about your idea and gathering supporters…
Supporting the young ethical consumers of the future… campus chapters
‘ Invitation’ not intervention They need ‘ permission ’ from their customers They need ‘ the right partners ’ They need ‘ a trusted third party ’ to pull things together