Interest groups

Sam Ng

19th Feb 2014

Development Innovations Orientation

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Overview

• Why interest groups are great first step

• How it works

• What groups exist (or will exist)

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Objective

Support people with mutual interests and ideas to collaborate in order to implement a real world solution.

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Interest groups contain 3 things

1. Interest group topic(s): health, education, labor, open source.

2. Interest group champion

3. Development Innovation process to support the group

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1. Topics

• All the sectors (including technology)

• Natural groups with common goals – Not too broad – Minimum group size

• Identify problem(s) to address together– Share key audience group(s)

• Overlaps are fine and welcome.– We facilitate collaboration across interest

groups.

2. Group champion

• Driven primarily by the community, not us.– Knowledge, sustainability

and energy• S/he commits to:

– Identify and invite relevant people/orgs

– Schedule and lead meetings– Coordinate with Innovations

Manager to set agenda– Manage the group to clear

objectives and timeframes

3. Interest group process

• DEFINE– Problem identification

• DISCOVER– Research– Global Trends– Initial ideation

Separate projects may form after initial ideation

• DESIGN– Refine ideas– Identify partners– Submit for funding

• DEVELOP and DEPLOY– Implement the solution in a consortium

We provide

• Logistics/admin• One on one guidance• Space and support for meeting• Facilitation

– Strategy– Research plans– Ideation workshops

• Intentional collaboration with other groups

Remember this?

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Problems Solutions

Interest groups

• Education• Health• Agriculture• Environment• Human trafficking• Human rights• Labor

• Open source• Android

development• Information security• Social media• Video production• Social enterprise• Others?

Interest groups

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Activity book exercise

• What problems/opportunities are you most interested in solving?

• Are you interested in being a champion?

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Handbook: Fill in the Interest Group form and see you at the next meeting!