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Final Reports (2010)

A final report/synopsis of the design research of Melissa Cliver, Rudy Yuly and Catherine Howard

Overall, our goal is to utilize field observations and design implications that will give IMTFI stakeholders the information needed to create tools to help improve financial inclusion. Focusing on farming cooperatives as intermediaries to the poorest individuals, their day workers, we translate observations and design implications into concepts for financial ser­vices available through information communication technologies. Our aim is to generate scalable solutions that can be used throughout the sustainable trade network—a delivery route driven by innovation and fundamentally concerned with fairness, sharing and posi­tive outcomes.

    Cover page: Navigating Value and Vulnerability with Cooperative Farmers and their Stakeholders: How information communication technologies can support financial services in the sustain¬able trade industry (Synopsis of Research Results)Creative Commons 'BY-NC' version 4.0 license
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    Papers (2010)
    A growing cadre of organizations, corporations, NGOs and philanthropic foundations seek to address difficult global problems like poverty using social innovation and technology. Such problems are multivalent, deep-rooted, ever changing and culturally specific. Amid this complicated terrain, ethnographic tools and methods are uniquely suited and key to successfully addressing these large-scale dilemmas. In our project, we use dynamic combinations of research, strategy and creative thinking to develop scalable financial service prototypes designed to promote financial inclusion for the world's poorest individuals. Fostering holistic solutions in this arena requires new ways of conceiving, designing and delivering innovation. In this paper we describe our process and vision for navigating these complex environments with hybrid strategies and an embrace of systems thinking1. We conclude with six imperatives for success in global social innovation projects.
      Cover page: Navigating Value and Vulnerability with Multiple Stakeholders: Systems thinking, design action and the ways of ethnography.Creative Commons 'BY-NC-SA' version 4.0 license
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