Pre Program Session 114th January, 2012 Tokyo

Schedule

10:30 – 11:30 Ice Breaker

11:30 – 12:00 Intro to Social Innovation

12:00 – 12:30 Intro to VIA and ESI program

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch!!!

13:30 – 15:20 Intro to Pre-Program and Guest Speakers

15:30 – 16:00 Travel Information from Nisshin Travel

Don’t Limit Yourself• Go beyond barriers / constrains

Be Creative!• Be a organizer, not a customer

• Ask what you can do for your program

Use English• English is world wide language

• Communicate as much as you can with your director, coordinators and people you will meet

Ice Breaker

• STEP 1

Interview your partner about the last time he/she gave a gift to someone.

Sample Questions• To whom did you give it?

• Why was it meaningful?

• How did you come up with the idea for the gift?

• What was difficult about finding and giving this gift?

YOU HAVE 4 MIN TO INTERVIEW

Interview on the Gift-Giving Experience

• STEP 2

Dig deeper about the experience. Try to understand stories, feelings and emotion behind the experience.

Sample Questions• Ask “WHY?” often

YOU HAVE 3 MIN TO DIG DEEPER

Interview on the Gift-Giving Experience

• STEP 3

Introduce your partner and his/her gift-giving experience in small group. Share the story, not just fact.

YOU HAVE 20 MIN

TO INTRODUCE YOUR PARTNER

Interview on the Gift-Giving Experience

Introduction to

Social Innovation

Introduction to

VIA and ESI Program

Exploring Social Innovation Programスタンフォード大学でソーシャルイノベーションを学ぶ二週間

March 18-31, 2011

Explore Design Lead

VIA programs

Creating “transformative experiential learning programs” for individuals and communities.

VIA (formerly Volunteers in Asia), is a non-profit, educational exchangeorganization started at Stanford.

Programs in Asia Programs at Stanford

In 6 different countries in Asia

Since 1963!

VIA’s Asia Programs:

• Send volunteers to underserved communities for 1-2 years

• Teach in schools

• Work in non-profit organizations

Advancing social innovation through cross-cultural exchange

Since 1977!

VIA’s Stanford Programs,

• Hold 5 programs per year

• Students from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, China

• Health, service-learning, language/culture

An engaged and resourceful alumni

2010 Alumni tour, Burma With currently 9 staff …

• VIA turns 50 in 2013

• Over 2000 active alumni

• Strong ties to Stanford, and partnerships in Asia

Don’t Limit Yourself• Go beyond barriers / constrains

Be Creative!• Be a organizer, not a customer

• Ask what you can do for your program

Use English• English is world wide language

• Communicate as much as you can with your director, coordinators and people you will meet

Ground rules for ESI program

San FranciscoWEEK 1:

StanfordWEEK 2:

Day 1 - Welcome to ESI

Day 2 - Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs

Day 3 - Sharing Your Vision

Day 4 - Design for the Other 90%

Day 5 - Social Media

Day 6 - Built to Last

Day 7 - Free Day:

Day 8 - Design-thinking Bootcamp

Day 9 - New Schools Movement

Day 10 - Investing in Social Impact

Day 11 - Workplace Innovation

Day 12 - Team Presentations

Day 13 - Farewells

Day 14 - Arrive back to japan

Schedule Overview

On the program: Day 5

90:00-10:30am Visit Twitter

Talk “Twitter for Good”

12:30am –3:00pm

Panel: Leveraging Crowdsourcing technologies to impact lives

Creative Commons, Khan Academy, Wikimedia Foundation

6:00 – 8:30pm Workshop on Fundraising using Cause-marketing

Discussion “Trends in global social entrepreneurship”

Pre-Program: Post-Program:

• Partner organization presentations

• Design-thinking workshops

• Project Research and Need-finding

• Refine project ideas

• Present to partnerorganizations in Japan

• Connect with VIA alumni Network

Impact beyond 2 weeks

Where is the program?

• San Francisco: March 18 – 25

Hotel Whitcomb

• Stanford: March 25 – March 30

Creekside Inn

Where we will be staying

What to Bring

• ONE Luggage

• Clothing

– One nice outfit for Farewell Dinner

– Casual clothing

• Weather

Stanford 8 – 20 C

San Francisco 7 – 15 C

• Other important items

• Optional items

Money

• Traveler’s Checks & credit cards

•$300-$500 will cover food, activities, shopping

•Don’t carry too much cash on you

•Be aware of your bags

•Tipping in restaurants with waiters is %15

Program Policies

Car rentals Drinking Smoking

Please follow ESI social media

www.viaprograms.org/blog/esi

www.facebook.com/groups/264353760278143/

http://twitter.com/VIA_ESI

LUNCH

Program Goals:

• Explore social innovation

• Design new solutions

• Take action in Japan

Pre-Program Contents

Reading Session

• Partner organization presentations • Field research for needs identification

• Design-thinking workshops• Intro to social action planning

• Optional reading session about social entrepreneurship

Project Design

Partners Introduction

Timeline

Jan 14 Orientation, Ice BreakerPartners Presentation: ISAK, ShuR

Jan 28 Design-Thinking Workshop on “Empathy”Partners Presentation: WINGLE, PIRIKA

Feb 4 Reading Session on Social Entrepreneurship (Optional)

Feb 18 Design-Thinking Workshop on “Define” Student Project Presentations, Form Teams

Mar 3 Teams Report about Need Identification Personal Goal-Setting

Book Recommendations

Intro to Social Innovation / Social Entrepreneurship

『世界を変える人たち』

How to Change the World

By David Bornstein

『貧困のない世界を創る』

Creating a World Without

Poverty

By Muhammad Yunus

Book Recommendations

Intro to Social Entrepreneurs

『いつかすべての子供たちに』ONE DAY, ALL CHILDREN

By Wendy Copp

(Teach for America)

『チェンジ•メーカー』

By 渡邊奈々

Book Recommendations

Life History of Social Entrepreneurs

『マイクロソフトでは出会えなかった転職』

Leaving Microsoft to

Change the World

By John Wood (Room to Read)

『あなたには夢がある』

Make the Impossible

Possible

By Bill Strickland

Book Recommendations

Social Finance

『クレイジーパワー』

The Power of Unreasonable

People

Forces for Good

Book Recommendations

Design Thinking

『デザイン思考が世界を変える』

Change by Design

By Tim Brown (IDEO)

『デザイン思考の道具箱』

By 奥出直人

Book Recommendations

Theory of Change

『システム思考教本』

By 枝廣 淳子

『出現する未来』 (U理論)

By ピーター・センゲ

Book Recommendations

Japanese Social Entrepreneurs and Social Ventures

By 駒崎弘樹（フローレン

ス）

By 今村久美（NPO カタリ

バ）

By 山口絵里子（マザーハウ

ス）

Book Recommendations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

“The Case for Definition”

“Cultivate your

Ecosystem”

“Creating Hi-Impact

Nonprofits”

“Design Thinking for

Social Innovation”

2012 ESI Team Projects

3 Project Goals:

Learn about social issues (disability,

environment and education) in Japan

Research innovative approaches to social

issues in Silicon Valley and develop a plan

to address social issues in Japan

Present project proposals to the

community at Stanford, as well as partners

after returning to Japan

Partner-driven:

work in a small group on an issue

presented by one of our partner

organizations

Student-Initiated:

propose a project you want to

work on and form a small group to

help you develop this.

Specifications:

Project must adhere to the stated

mission of the partner

organization

Must work together in a group of

5-6

Must respond to input and

feedback of partner organization

and advisors

Specifications:

Project must have a clearly

defined Vision , Mission–.Plan for

Leadership and Sustainability

Must appeal to the interests of

other students in the program

• Submit project proposal for

review

• Recuit a team of 5-6 students

2 Project Types

2012 ESI Partners

(one team): (one team): (one team):

Project focus:

on operational aspects of

the school, such as

recruitment and fund-raising

Project focus (one of the

following):

1) to make people click

buttons on the PIRIKA site.

2) design a way to

encourage people to

continue picking up trash

using PIRIKA and not just

do it one time and be done.

3) to design a way to

change the negative image

of trash as a business.

Project focus:

generate ideas for solutions

to difficulties people

with disabilities are facing

everyday (see Wingle

handout for more details).

Pre-program:

Timeline

January 14 Outline of ISAK

January 21 Deadline to send student-initiated project

proposal

January 28 Outline of Pirika, Wingle

February 18 Outline of Student-Initiated Projects

Deadline to form Project Teams

March 3 Project Teams Report on Need-finding

Program & Post-program:

Timeline

March 25 Design-thinking Bootcamp (day-long

workshop on brainstorming, prototyping)

March 27/28 Meetings with Project Team Mentors

March 29 Project Presentations at Stanford

late April Project Team Meetings with Partner

Organizations and Advisors

June 23/24 Final Project Presentations in Japan

1. Vision – What is the problem you would like to solve?

2. Mission– Describe the specific need that you aim to solve, and scale of focus.

3. Sustainability – What initial ideas do you have to make this project sustainable?

4. Leadership - What background, skills, values, beliefs will help you to succeed?

Student-initiated Proposals

• Complete Project Proposal form (by January 21, 2012):

• Project Outline & Team Recruitment (February 18, 2012)

• January 21: Deadline to submit student-initiated proposal

• February 18: Student-initiated Project Outline, Team Project Selection

• March 3: Share Need-finding and feedback

Review Next Steps

Introduction to

Guest Speakers

Junto Ohki Lin KobayashiShuR Group, Co-founder, CSO International School of Asia, Karuizawa

Executive Director

Junto OhkiShuR Group, CSOCo-Founder, PresidentShuR NPO ChairpersonShuR Co., Ltd. CEO

Twitter:@juntoohki

ShuR Group is a corporate group which providessign language service with IT for people withhearing impairments. ShuR offers about 10services for Deaf people such as Sign LanguageVideo Relay Service, Sign Language GuideApplication, and Seminar for mothers of childrenwho are hearing impaired. To learn more aboutShuR Group, please visit their websitehttp://shur.jp/

Lin KobayashiExecutive Director, Foundation for the

International School of Asia, Karuizawa

The International School of Asia, Karuizawa(ISAK) is an educational institution which aimsat developing transformational leaders whoexplore new frontiers in service of the greatergood for Asia and beyond. The school will openin 2013 inviting around 50 high school studentsfrom Asia.To learn more about ISAK, please visit theirwebsite isak.jp