For the past couple of months, we’ve been thinking about who we are, what we do and what we want to achieve. Aided by Rachel Botsman and with great input from a number of people in the social innovation community, we’ve been refining the way ASIX should define its identity and purpose.

Information, knowledge management and collaboration in the community and international development sector – how do we get people to communicate openly together?

As I begin to enter a new career as the knowledge manager for engineers without borders Australia, I have been reflecting upon my experiences as a volunteer within the organisation. In Queensland, we recently tuned a strong focus towards an initiative called ‘local projects’ and with this, begun to actively network with other non-profit organisations around the region and country.

I have been following with interest a conversation that has been bringing together all the Social Innovators in Australia (Thanks to @edwardharran) around COSI10 and also with the Social Innovation Barcamp coming very soon. I feel that this has a lot of potential to collaborate in more things.

I thought I would open this thread to start having this conversation in an open space.

So, where from here? Any thoughts?

One of the key messages that emerged from Ezio Manzini's masterclass a few weeks ago for me was the important notion that 20th Century determinants of success - upscaling in order to grow in dimension and magnitude - are potentially no longer relevant, and at least shouldn't be the measures taken forward and emulated by the social innovation sector. It's all too easy to be successful with a small pilot idea, and to then assume that the only way forward is world domination!