This is a primer on transformative social change, or social innovation, as defined by Social Innovation Generation.
Renjie Butalid, Communications Coordinator for SiG@Waterloo, facilitated a workshop on social innovation in Waterloo, Ontario on Thursday, July 16, 2009, focusing on his understanding of the process of transformative social change and how young people can become a part of the movement.
The original blog post first appeared on www.renjie.ca on July 18, 2009. A follow-up guest post, Survival of the Fittest: Why Young People Want to Change the World, by Melissa Richer, Executive Director of theAyllu Initiative in Brazil, was published in response, clearly articulating why more and more young people are getting involved in 'world-changing' activities, not simply out of youthful idealism, but rather, as an imperative need to survive in a world faced with increasingly complex and intractable social problems.
