[Free] Societal Thinking: Pathway To Exponential Change (Part-1)
Solving together, at scale – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- What is Societal Thinking?
- Why is it relevant now?
- How is Societal Thinking put into practise?
- What are the required mindset shifts?
Requirements
- No pre-requisites. This course is designed to serve value to everyone regardless of their experience.
Description
Social problems are large, complex and tend to grow much faster than our individual ability to solve them. Societal Thinking provides a set of values and design principles to reimagine and redesign the core interactions between key actors of society in a way that induces exponential change.Exponential change ~ when every change induces more and rapid changes
Societal Thinking enables:
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Radical Inclusion: by reimagining how the key actors of the society (like communities, markets, government, civil society) interact with each other
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Enhanced Ability to solve: by creating assets & infrastructure that are open & accessible by all
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Diverse Solutions: by designing spaces that allow everyone to solve in the way that works best for them
Societal Thinking has manifested in a variety of ways to induce exponential change:
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as blueprints that help governments reimagine the development narrative
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as reusable building blocks (like legos) that can be used in many different combinations to accelerate the rate of building a solution
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as Societal Platforms, audacious endeavours (e.g. quality healthcare for all) that accelerates social change at population scale by building open technology, inspiring co-creation and orchestrating ecosystems.
Just as a thousand mice dont make an elephant, replicating small solutions wont solve a large problem at scale. For things to work at scale, they need to be designed such that problems get solved not because of one idea or one ideator, but because its easy for diverse actors to come together to solve.
Societal Thinking can help design such systems.
Author(s): Sanjay Purohit
