Social Innovation and Sustainable Development

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Sustainable Development in the 21st Century with Ban Ki-moon

24 個評分

Yonsei University

Sustainable Development in the 21st Century with Ban Ki-moon

24 個評分

The course is designed for people that want to learn about the latest development agenda the international community agreed to achieve by 2030. Structured around the five pillars of Agenda 2030 – people, prosperity, planet, peace and justice, and partnership, students will learn that these pillars are interconnected and need to be integrated in practical policy-making and operational activities for development, in both developed and developing country settings. Following an introductory module on the main concepts of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs, successive modules will provide the foundation behind the SDGs for people, prosperity and planet, peace and partnership. A final module will explore the way forward and provide channels that the young generation can participate to integrate the SDGs in the policy-making of the students’ resident countries. To get a better idea of our course, we welcome you to take a look at our promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KATSb73TeB4

從本節課中

Prosperity

Where the last module focused on the activities within the 2030 Agenda to tackle the problems related to the Planet, this week will focus on the prosperity element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Economic development is a key component in any development agenda. You will be analyzing the past trends of economic and political development and will be introduced to examples of how to achieve sustainable economic development. We will touch upon concepts of sustainable economic trends such as social innovation and green jobs, buildings and energy sources.

Social Innovation and the SDG 2030 Agenda5:36

Social Innovation and Sustainable Development5:15

Social Innovation and Collective Impact5:24

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Ban Ki-moon
Distinguished Chair Professor
Institute for Global Engagement and Empowerment

Social innovation has a particular relevance to development process.

Trillions of dollars of aid money and loans flowed

into the developing world over decades that followed World War II,

but the results have been highly mixed.

Development programs often involve foreign assistance or ODA,

for public health and infrastructure projects

that do not always have the desired outcomes.

For example, a considerable amount of development aid was funneled into

the construction of public works projects that

focus more on spectacle rather than substance.

Gleaming new infrastructure projects,

like empty sports stadiums and lavish presidential palaces,

arose amidst a sea of poverty,

which led to unaccounted for aid funds and mounting loan repayments.

While the flow of development aid to

corrupt governments allowed the officials to mass personal fortunes,

considerable amounts also went directly to the most impoverished zones.

Yet here, some advanced technologies introduced by aid agencies

often had little impact among

populations with little understanding of what to do with them,

or involve complex machinery that was difficult to repair and maintain.

Many development schemes also involve the import of

surplus goods from donor nations with little use in recipient nations,

or inadvertently competed with local industries.

The inflow of foreign aid to developing world did not always misfire,

but the end results inevitably limited the impact of past development efforts.

Today, there have been many improvements in the delivery of ODAs,

yet the need to target the aid, carefully still persists.

In addition, as more and more nations emerge out of

developing nations status into the category of middle income nations,

there needs to be more sustainable models of funding that can empower

individuals to earn a living on their

own rather than depend on aid money for subsistence.

Now ultimately, many of

the persistent social and environmental problems that developing nations face,

may best be solved by local social enterprises that may discover

better and more sustainable solutions than the outside or the experts of the past.

Therefore, establish a culture of social entrepreneurship and

building an ecosystem that can encourage individuals to launch startups,

there is an increasingly important part of major development programs.

Creating a vibrant startup or

celebration program within developing countries can be a challenge,

but we can find a number of interesting examples from around the world.

For instance, the UNDP in Vietnam in 2016 began in collaboration with HATCH!

VENTURES to encourage young people to achieve the SDG goals,

through the introduction of new technologies,

ideas, prototypes, and creative solutions.

The program began in 2016 with the Social Innovation Camp and

Social Innovation Summit to help spread

awareness of the importance of social entrepreneurship.

During the following year, the SDG challenge of

2017 attracted teams from around the country.

A total of four teams was selected out of the end of 2017,

out of 25 finalists and received

startup funding to implement their social entrepreneurship plans.

The UNDP HATCH! collaboration is part of a large number of similar experiments

around the world as various organizations attempt to find workable models,

providing training, capital, and mentorship to entrepreneurs

who can find sustainable business models for solving social and environmental problems.

Unlike previous development at aid efforts,

the private sector is increasingly being recognized as

a key stakeholder for the achievement of the SDG 2030 Agenda.

We should keep in mind that there have been an artificial sense

that governments and international organizations should take care of public concerns,

while private companies should focus on the pursuit of profits.

However, despite every thinking creates a false sense of division of

labor and can prevent creative partnerships between the public and private sectors.

The establishment of partnerships across the public private divide and empower

individuals to join together for

a common cause are essential prerequisites for social innovation.

Therefore, the establishment of an entrepreneurship platforms to achieve

SDG goals in developing countries can bring together investment funds, academia,

technology companies, local governments,

and international organizations together as

clear examples where social innovation can

provide new solutions to problems of development.

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