{"id":2605,"date":"2014-12-29T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/six.stimulatingminds.co.uk\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2022-07-06T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T09:28:28","slug":"irrestibly-biased-the-blind-spots-of-social-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/irrestibly-biased-the-blind-spots-of-social-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Irresistibly Biased? The blind spots of social innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social innovation has an irresistible global appeal, but is it biased towards protecting the status quo?\u00a0
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What\u2019s the state of play in the fast paced world of\u00a0social innovation?<\/a>\u00a0The Unusual Suspects Festiva<\/a>l in London seemed a good place to find out. Collaboration was the theme. The claims made were high. The stakes may be even higher. A dazzling line up of initiatives were on display, backed up by discussions and debates on everything from the future of public services to the role of the arts in social change to the game-changing potential of social entrepreneurs.

Social innovation has an irresistible global appeal. Who wouldn\u2019t be persuaded by the challenge of mobilizing all our skills, energies and creativity to solve the world\u2019s toughest problems? Students are increasingly pursuing social innovation as a career path. The UK government is championing it as a key strategy in the \u2018Big Society<\/a>.\u2019 Initiatives like\u00a0Shared Lives Plus<\/a>\u00a0 in healthcare, Code Club<\/a>\u00a0in education, and the return of community organizing at\u00a0Locality<\/a>were among hundreds of exciting examples showcased at the Festival.

Thanks to the work of the\u00a0Social Innovation Exchange<\/a>, the impact of such projects travels to places as far apart as South Korea and Argentina, where innovators are working on similar grand challenges. Innovation is also fast becoming the mainstream in the international development community, with leading donor agencies like Britain\u2019s\u00a0Department for International Development<\/a>,USAID<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Omidyar Network<\/a>\u00a0throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at innovations linked to\u00a0poverty<\/a>,\u00a0humanitarian disasters<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0government transparency<\/a>.

But perhaps this buzz disguises some important biases that undermine the power of social innovation, at least if it aims to transform the systems and structures that perpetuate poverty and inequality. \u00a0I came away from the Festival with four of these biases swirling around my brain: a bias towards co-optation instead of genuine collaboration; \u2018bigger is always better;\u2019 \u2018solving problems\u2019 is more urgent than building the capacity to find solutions; and a serial avoidance of politics.

According to management guru\u00a0Peter Senge<\/a>, collaboration is the\u00a0human face of systems change.<\/a>\u00a0Addressing the most pressing global challenges demands collective action on an unprecedented scale across all sectors of life. We need more \u2018public-private partnerships\u2019 and \u2018multi-stakeholder initiatives.\u2019

But let\u2019s not forget that systemic change is impossible without contestation. Challenging dominant ideas and debating alternatives in the public sphere is a key source of creative tension. \u201cHaving a good fight before getting to yes\u201d is essential to building compromises and constituencies, as the sociologist\u00a0Xavier de Souza Briggs<\/a>\u00a0concludes in his book \u2018Democracy as Problem Solving.\u201d Protecting spaces for \u2018unruly politics\u2019<\/a>\u00a0and the exercise of strong countervailing power is vital for societal renewal.

So it\u2019s highly problematic to hear Brooks Newmark<\/a>, Britain\u2019s \u201cMinister for Civil Society,\u201d say that social organizations should\u00a0\u201cstick to their knitting and keep out of politics\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at a meeting that announced the dawn of a \u201cpeople-helping-people age.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Just get on with your work, pay your taxes (so that government can bail out more banks), and don\u2019t expect the state to bail out ordinary people

Instead, here\u2019s some money and the odd award for you to \u2018innovate\u2019 your way to helping people deal with a collapsing economy and a social safety net that\u2019s disappearing. And so the social innovation community gets busy devising ingenious volunteering schemes in hospitals and facilitating communities to re-organize their depleted assets. Is this collaboration or co-optation?

The second bias is scale. \u201cYou are playing too small,\u201d declared the writer Charles Leadbeater<\/a>\u00a0to a roomful of social innovators at a discussion of\u00a0\u2018Making It Big,\u2019<\/a>\u00a0a report issued by the UK agency\u00a0NESTA<\/a>. The report proposes some helpful steps to scale up social innovations, but omits to acknowledge that bigger is not always better. On the contrary, the desire to \u2018make things big\u2019 is what has caused many of our toughest problems to emerge or expand in the first place. If there\u2019s one thing to learn from systems thinking, it\u2019s that the smallest of gestures can make the biggest difference and vice versa.

The problem with the scaling-up debate is that it\u2019s dominated by management science and its focus on market development and organizational theory. Developments in the social realm rarely conform to such dynamics. Nor do they fit into to the timeframes and \u2018value for money\u2019 metrics of success that funders and policymakers tend to apply. For example, studies of social movements show that their real impact lies through changing\u00a0the climate of ideas<\/a>\u00a0or expanding the range of policy alternatives. The timeframes of these processes are generational, not annual, and their effects are usually difficult to control or predict.

As an illustration, take the Austrian town of\u00a0Graz<\/a>\u00a0where I live. In Graz I\u2019ve discovered a lively ecosystem of activists and social entrepreneurs who are \u2018moving and shaking\u2019 public life through everything from\u00a0co-working schemes<\/a>\u00a0toprojects for urban renewal\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0alternative street festivals<\/a>. A good many of them went to same alternative secondary school which was set up in the 1970s by parents who wanted to change the system through concrete\u00a0\u2018pre-figurative\u2019 alternatives.<\/a>

By the social innovation standards of today, they failed. The school is still small and struggling, and the education system they set out to shake up is as stuck in its ways as it was 40 years ago. Yet haphazardly perhaps, it has produced a generation of change makers that are now at the forefront of creating innovations, big and small, across many areas of social and economic life.

What these activists also have in common is that they don\u2019t worry excessively about problem solving, a third social innovation bias that plays out unproductively in at least two ways. First there\u2019s the myth of \u201csolutionism<\/a>\u201d, a term coined by\u00a0Evgeny Morozov<\/a>\u00a0to describe the global obsession with \u2018fixing our world,\u2019 preferably with technological solutions or band aids while ignoring the deeper dynamics of the problem. Second, problem solving only taps into a small part of the reservoirs of human creativity and civic energy. To paraphrase the futurist\u00a0Buckminster Fuller<\/a>, people should be architects of their future, not slaves.

The upshot of these biases is an over-arching denial of politics and power. My impression from the Unusual Suspects Festival was that little deep digging is happening in the social innovation world to get at the underlying factors that perpetuate inequality and plunder the planet. Popular tunes among innovators include grand statements about \u2018broken systems\u2019 and \u2018unprecedented crises\u2019 which demand that we \u2018hack\u2019 or \u2018reboot\u2019 our world. And then off we go, co-creating and experimenting our way to a bright emergent future.

Coupled with energy, urgency is a contagious mix, but perhaps it would be useful to take an extra minute and ask some basic questions about what is going on: who benefits from the status quo, and who will benefit from any social innovation? Which problems rise to the top and which are ignored in competitions, policy papers and social innovation funding?


To illustrate these questions, take the example of\u00a0Alberta\u2019s one billion dollar Social Innovation Endowment<\/a>, which was also featured at the Unusual Suspects Festival. According to its\u00a0own press release<\/a>, this new\u00a0\u201cmonster fund\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 puts Alberta\u2019s \u201cgrowing savings\u201d to work in \u201cresolving complex social issues like poverty or family violence\u2026[by using] new thinking, new approaches, and risk-taking that can be more effectively implemented outside of traditional government approaches.\u201d

Big money, big words, but if these ambitions are genuine then \u00a0a substantial part of the endowment should be invested in the deeper structures that give life and oxygen to society, like an education system that promotes life-long learning, or deepening democracy, strengthening gender equality and protecting biodiversity.

In addition, where do these \u2018growing savings\u2019 come from? \u00a0The answer is royalties from one of the\u00a0dirtiest forms of energy<\/a>\u00a0in the world. You would expect at least a mention of the controversial\u00a0Alberta Tar Sands<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the Keystone Pipeline<\/a>\u00a0in the Endowment\u2019s strategy\u2014probably the most important reality that frames the questions of who gains and who loses from social innovation in the province.

It\u2019s none too soon for the social innovation community to throw away their rose tinted glasses. As for the next festival of unusual suspects in London or wherever, how about a focus on politics for a change? Now that really would be a social innovation.

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