Social Innovation & Systemic Change Hackathon

Note: after you register on Eventbrite, please fill in this form to help us configure the hackathon to match your unique talents, interests, and goals.

CrowdDoing is co-hosting the first ever Social Innovation & Systemic Change Hackathon. This is a “reverse hackathon”, in that rather than trying to out-compete each-other, teams will focus on how they can collaborate better to achieve Sustainable Development Goals.

Social problems from forest fires to homelessness are more interconnected than ever. Can meaningful progress against intractable problems be achieved in a weekend? Can people come together across disciplinary lines and find shared understanding & shared strategies for collaboration? Can people who are new to social innovation create exponential progress as skilled volunteers? Can this process create more than ephemeral gains and scale social innovations up to the level of our social challenges? Can trust created in massively-multi-disciplinary teams persist? Lets find out together on March 12th & March 15th.

This hackathon will be led by CrowdDoing, which is co-led by Reframe It & Match4Action Foundation. See crowddoing.world on your desktop browser to learn more about CrowdDoing.

Location: Virtual

March 10th-March 15th:

Due to pandemic, we've restructured this to be a virtual-only collaboration. We are grateful for your understanding and flexibility. We appreciate that you will be joining us at the first CrowdDoing Social Innovation Systemic Change Hackathon. Our goal - ambitious and we believe feasible - is to make three to nine months of progress on thematically-focused projects over the course of the hackathon.

Please follow the links below for more details:

CrowdDoing Virtual Systemic Change Hackathon March 10th-March 15th: What To Expect

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LANUpzc8kHDIsnP9SKjO-I3QbtDkCZWg/view?usp=sharing

CrowdDoing Virtual Systemic Change Hackathon: Visual overview of themes:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y3UoTe5FN5G8Kst4vKmrvxt6wK-JuPhbAjBWYC4dfIk/edit?usp=sharing

Detailed material on each theme:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kcgAqRI-DyEG8Lq84yNZxn4780DmaA0lFsqcHk1krOI/edit?usp=sharing

CrowdDoing Background Reading on Systemic Change:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e2-die-S-4w0wDNBIr3_CM8d4zB1C_qZQuLeWPMeevM/edit?usp=sharing

We encourage you to join for any part of this hackathon you can participate that is convenient for you. Please join us us for the parts you are interested in. You are warmly that you are welcome to collaborate when this is feasible for you during the hackathon. We are excited to have you help us achieve systemic change. But please also feel free totally free miss any part of this that you have other obligations for. Please RSVP on the calendar invitations based on your availability,and coordinate availability with teammates and experts. We understand everyone has obligations to self, family, friends, community, and organization, particularly during the timing as we are in at the moment. We appreciate your flexibility to helping us adopt a virtual format for this event. Thank you for your patience in our process to get this hackathon organized for a virtual context.

Sincerely,

-Bobby

p.s. Schedule summary:

Wednesday, March 11

11:30 AM - 12:30 Symposium on Theme 1: prevention derivatives

Thursday, March 12-

Join Hangouts Meet , meet.google.com/gmh-jyjc-shc, Join by phone,

4:30 - 4:45 Introductions of participants

4:45 - 5:00 Introduction of themes, overview of format, 2-3 minute intros per theme

5:00 - 5:15 Team formation. Use this google sheet to sign up

5:15 - 6:00 Hack time for theme 4

5:15 - 7:00 Hack time for themes 1 ,2, 3, 5

6:00 - 7:00 Symposium on Theme 4: Fire prevention

7:00 - 7:30 Teams meeting plenary for report out to broader group

Friday, March 13

3:00 - 4:00 Symposium on Theme 2: Zero-Subsidy Affordable Housing

Expert & Mentor Sessions available- schedule TBD

Teams schedule private meetings for hack time together

Saturday, March 14

Expert & Mentor Sessions available- schedule TBD

Teams schedule private meetings for hack time together

Sunday, March 15

Join Hangouts Meet, meet.google.com/rkq-jwrh-pod, Join by phone

10:15 - 11:30 Symposium on Theme 3: Biophelia

12:00 - 12:20 Introductions of participants, recap of themes

12:20 - 12:40 Report out from teams (scrum-style updates)

12:40 - 3:00 Hack time for themes 1 ,2, 3, 4

12:40 - 1:30 Symposium on Theme 5: Sweat Equity Diversification

1:30 - 3:00 Hack time for theme 5

3:00 - 5:30 Presentations & discussions: Theme 1-Theme 5

5:30 - 6:00 Closing, discussion, learnings from around the room, future participation

What is the goal?

Our goal - ambitious and we believe feasible - is to make three to nine months of progress on thematically-focused projects over the course of the hackathon.

Really?

Yes. Some hackathons produce disposable prototypes that are discarded at the end of the event. This collaboration session will be different.

Every one of the initiatives at this event is integral to an ongoing virtual international collaboration. Each of these initiatives has long been championed by one of the co-sponsoring organizations.

In this hackathon, we hope to identify and mitigate interdisciplinary risks by gathering people across disciplinary lines to support the development, deployment, and adoption of social innovations.

After the event, all participants will have the opportunity to continue virtually with their teams alongside global virtual collaborators if they wish.

What can I expect?

Each individual will help with one or multiple thematic areas:

• How can we increase the density of plants in cities in order to reduce the number of deaths from air pollution and improve mental health?
• If people could buy only the percentage of appreciation value that they can afford, and still secure stable access to a home, half of homelessness in dense urban regions could be prevented
• If stakeholders who face forest fire or other major risks can collaborate to finance the prevention of these risks through social innovation, all stakeholders can be better protected.
• Everyone should be able to economically afford to work on what they love. That would be possible if sweat equity staff could achieve economic diversification comparable to impact investors.
• Collaboration is the new competition that will make us all thrive. The future of volunteerism is feasible today.

For details about each thematic area, please see this document.

Systemic change is an improvisation. We invite you to collaborate in one or multiple themes, using one or multiple approaches at scaling civic engagement. Our goal is to accelerate long-term projects with leadership in place at the hackathon to help internalize gains. That is possible through each person’s autonomy, demonstrations of mastery, and collaborative agency.

We invite each person to micro-lead in the way that feels right for them. We don’t need to prove ourselves to help change the world together. Share a context of collaboration with people who share your aspirations for better worlds.

Social innovation in the 21st century is inherently collaborative, and there are too many fields for any one person to master. Get inspired by people who view these collective challenges from vantage points that differ from your own. Come find your friends, allies and colleagues in systemic change by collaborating together with them at this first-of-its-kind container.