-- The conditions needed to conduct a successful and
sustainable social innovation
It’s rather promising to read about Brazil Family Grant (Bolsa Família), not only
because it has clear philosophy to assist the poor to overcome the poverty in a
long run, but also it has feasible operational system to implement its plan. It raises the awareness of the society to
tackle the vexing problem the majority is facing and it overcomes some
traditional obstacles, such as bureaucracy, corruption, governmental non-effectiveness,
which eventually makes the social welfare project a big success and even a
model for many other countries, like Mexico.
This indicates a strong message—as long as we have a widely
accepted consensus and a practical implementation mechanism system, some tough
issues can be dealt with efforts and orders contributed from household level up
to the top. This message is especially valuable when it comes to addressing and solving some worldwide issues, such as population increasing, water usage, food shortage, energy utilizing, environmental protection, labor transferring, regional equality, and so on. These international common issues especially need general awareness from global residences and workable operation system across national boundaries.
What’s more, rethinking the role of government in the social
innovation arena is necessary. Because regardless of many genetic shortcomings
of governmental management, it still has variety of resources and abilities to
allocate these resources to foster social innovation. Otherwise the potential
of social innovators may suffer from lacking of seed capital, proper climate,
and so on.
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