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Social Innovation Design Cases: A Chronicle of Global Journeys book cover

1st Edition

Social Innovation Design Cases A Chronicle of Global Journeys

By Vijay K. Vaishnavi Copyright 2025
322 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Social innovation is an innovation whose main aim is to benefit society. There is a worldwide need for and interest in conducting innovations and social innovations. Social Innovation Design Cases: A Chronicle of Global Journeys provides an in-depth description of the design journeys of twenty social innovation cases from twelve countries around the globe on five continents. The design cases... Read more

1. Introduction

I. Promoting Rural Economic Development
2. Honey Care, Africa: Promoting Honey Farming
3. Village of Andavadoake, Madagascar: Increasing Octopus Farming Productivity
4. Buhoma Village Walk, Uganda: Promoting Sustainable Tourism

II. Improving Infrastructure
5. Lufumbu Village Water Scheme, Tanzania: Offsetting Water Infrastructure
6. Husk Power Systems, India: Environmentally Friendly Electricity Generation
7. Waste Ventures India. Integrated Waste Management
8. Safaricom’s M-Pesa, Africa: Mobile-Based Financial Services

III. Enhancing Healthcare
 9. TRACnet, Rwanda: Fighting Pandemics using IT
10. Aravind Eye Care System, India: Hospital Network for Preventing Blindness
11. Rushey Green Time Bank, U.K.: Reciprocal Healthcare Services Exchange

IV. Generating and/or Sustaining Employment
12. DesiCrew, India: Business Process Outsourcing for Rural Employment
13. Infosys Global Education Center, India: Organization-Specific Career-Long Learning
14. The Big Issue, UK: Income-Earning Model for Homeless People
15. WorkVentures, Australia. Sustaining Independent Employment

V. Transforming Farming
16. SEKEM, Egypt: Holistic Farming Initiative
17. Cotton Stripper, India: Mechanizing Cotton Stripping
18. M-Farm, Kenya: Monitoring Real-Time Crop Market Prices

VI. Addressing Climate Change
19. Tetra Pak, Sweden: Reducing Climate Impact
20. Elopak, Norway: Becoming Carbon Neutral
21. Johnson & Johnson, US: Reducing Carbon Emissions
22. Conclusions

Biography

Vijay K. Vaishnavi is Professor Emeritus of Computer Information Systems, as well as former Board of Advisors Professor of Computer Information Systems and Professor of Computer Science, at Georgia State University. He holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and has conducted postdoctoral work at McMaster University, Canada. His research interests cover several areas including innovation design, social innovation design, design science research methods, information integration and web mining, software development, and data structures/algorithms.

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