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TACSI is is a social innovation laboratory with the twin roles of testing ideas, methods and projects and brokering partnerships.
TACSI list's its most recent projects as below.
Bold ideas, better lives challenge
With the Bold Ideas, Better Lives Challenge we wanted to give every Australian the chance to turn their big idea for social change into big impact. So in 2010 we put our money (and our networks) where our mouth is and invested $1 million into the eight projects chosen by our panel of judges in the Bold Ideas Better Lives challenge. In 2011, we'll be supporting the projects as they work to build their projects and make some change in the world. Follow their journey on our website and blog!
Radically redesigning social services
One of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation's initial projects is working with users and service providers to co-design solutions to address unmet social needs by radically redesigning social services.
Ageing
In 2011, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation's radical redesign team will begin to work with users and service providers to co-design solutions to address unmet social needs around our ageing population.
Social entrepreneurs
Social entrepreneurs are the agents of change in our community and we (that's the big 'we', as in society at large) need to find better ways at working with and for them.
To that end we'll be looking at the kind of training and support options available to social entrepreneurs and using our home base here in South Australia as a pilot region.
Social innovator dialogues
The Social Innovator Dialogues brings international thought leadership and expertise to Australia through a series of events. Including cutting edge thinkers and doers on innovation in public sector policy, social justice and sustainable design, the series addresses the big issues affecting decision makers across the public, private and third sector and encourages leaders in Australia to wrestle with the opportunities and challenges of innovation that are remaking the world as we know it.
Blue sky sessions
Our Blue Sky Sessions provide an informal and interactive forum for people to come together in a spirit of collaborative inquiry to discuss some of the pressing challenges of our day and how we might go about tackling them. This is not a case of talking heads. We encourage people to participate, to be creative and to think big.
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