Crowdsourcing for Global Good: The Rise of Student Case Competitions

Crowdsourcing for Global Good – The Rise of Student Case Competitions

Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit15th Oct 2014

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About Myself

• PAST – Hail from a remote region of

the North-East part of India – Shillong (also known as Scotland of the East)

– Masters in Biotechnology (IN)

– PhD in Biophysics & nanotechnology (DK)

– MBA in Sustainability (DK)– Researcher in Organizational

Innovation & Interdisciplinary Collaboration (DK)

• PRESENT– Head of Open Innovation

@AU Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

– Gamification researcher and practitioner

– University-Industry Network co-ordinator

– Entrepreneurship & Innovation Educator

– Expatriate Entrepreneurship researcher

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THE ERA of CONNECTIVITY

2020

4 Billion

Connected people

25+ Million

Apps25+

Billion Embedded &

Intelligent systems

50 Trillion

GBs of Data

Data Source: IDC, Intel, McCafe 2012

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GLOBAL PROBLEMS ARE ALSO RISING

Global Warming

Resource Scarcity

Economic InequalityMassive Unemployment

Global Poverty

Etc. Etc. Etc…….

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THE CHALLENGE OFGLOBAL POVERTY

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Total Human Population

Source: Worldmapper


Total GDP wealth distribution

Source: Worldmapper


Global Poverty

Source: Worldmapper


Global Poverty map as defined by the world bank on less than US$ 1.5/day

Source: CIA Factbook 2008


Presenting a more correct picture of poverty

Source: Alkire & Santos, 2010http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2010/mpi/


Presenting a more correct picture of poverty

Source: Alkire & Santos, 2010



BUT in HERE LIES THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL…

CROWDSOURCING enabled by TECHNOLOGY

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WHAT IS THE SINGLE THING THAT HAS

CHANGED AFRICA FOR AFRICANS TODAY MORE

THAN ANYTHING ELSE?


Mobile tipped to grow 60% in Africa passing 1 billion subscriptions by 2016- November 2011, Informa (Matthew Reed)


Global Poverty / Africa

Mobile in Africa is morepowerful than the west

Source: Graphic by Jon Gosier of Appfrica Labs


Development/ Business

Development powered by Technology & people

Harassment of WomenEgypt

Source: http://harassmap.org/main?l=en_US



CROWDSOURCING enabled by TECHNOLOGYhas the POWER to CHANGE THINGS

But WHO IS A MAJOR DEMOGRAPHIC OF THIS ”CROWD”

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Students….@rajiv_VB


BUT WAIT A SECOND…

Isn’t Education apparently the enemy of creativity?

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The Student DIVIDEND in crowdsourcing….

HIGH NUMBERS MOBILITY

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The Student DIVIDEND in crowdsourcing….

RESILIENCE

ABSENCE OF BIAS

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IGNITING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT…

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STUDENTS + ENTREPRENEURSHIP +

TECHNOLGY = WIN-WIN?


A KEY INGREDIENT THAT IS STILL MISSING FROM THE EQUATION - PURPOSE

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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Filling the purpose gap…

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#SELFIE

Vs.

#CHARITY

Instagram

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

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The data that I refer to is STUDENT CHALLENGES

i .e. STUDENT CASE COMPETITIONS WITHIN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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Case competition Location Prize Started1 Hult Prize USA (Global) USD 1 Million Spring 20102 Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship Case

CompletitionBrigham Young University (National)

2010

3 Oikos case writing competition(educational case writing)

CHF 5000, 2000, 1000 2003

4 YYC Social Enterprise Case Competition

University of Calgary, Canada

Internship in Kenya 2014

5 Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition

Northwestern University (Global)

USD 5000 2007

6 VERB (Grew from DELL Social Innovation competition (DSIC) which ran from 2007 until 2013

USD 25000 2014

7 The Games for Change Challenge for students(digital game development with a cause)

Europe (Global) Invitation to series of professional events to showcase the game

2013

8 Hong Kong Social Entreprise Challenge (HKSEC) Hong Kong Implementation of the enterprise under mentorship.2 awards of upto HKD 60000

2007

9 The President’s Challenge Harvard (for Harvard school students and post-docs)

Mentoring the project in i-lab for top 10 teams. Grand prize USD 70000 and runners up share USD 30000.

2012

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A Social Entrepreneur is not a social worker!Social Entrepreneurship is not an NGO or NGO work!IT IS A BUSINESS – SOCIAL BUSINESS


What is Social Entrepreneurship?


Definition (Investopedia): “A person who pursues an innovative idea with the potential to solve a community problem”.

Some Notable Quotes:

“Social entrepreneurs are mad scientists in the lab,” - Pamella Hartigan, Director SCSE at Oxford University

“They’re harbingers of new ways of doing business.” - Forbes

“Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society's most pressing social problems” - Ashoka Fellows program






“crowdsourcing brilliant solutions”For yourself (Start-ups)

“crowdsourcing brilliant solutions”For someone else (NGOs)

24/09/14Prize winner announced

29/10/14Early-Bird deadline

NEW CHALLENGE

18/11/142nd deadline

17/12/15Final deadline

9/01/15 Reg-Finalistsannounced

SELECTION SELECTION

17/12/15Regional Finals5 cities + online

01/05/15Accelerator start

01/08/15Accelerator Finish

23/09/15Final Pitches at CGI Annual

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That’s almost 1 YEAR of STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

That’s PURPOSE…

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2015 CHALLENGE

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Not a talk on Gamification (Speaker Prison alert)

Educator Version to be released in November 2014

The Entrepreneurship game – About Entrepreneurship, uncertainty and YOU