Network

AGRI-FOND ASSOCIATION

Submitted by joonsbaek on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:40am

Countries

China

Tags

Network, food, direct sales, community-supported agriculture

Themes

rural-urban links, food, goods distribution systems
Link: 
AGRI-FOND ASSOCIATION
Stakeholders / Promoters: 
Promoters (Zhou Jinzhang, Luo Zhehong and Peng Hui) are three young people who had some personal experiences on countryside tour and food. They promote this action with strong initiatives Users are those urban citizens who have more consciousness on food quality and incline of countryside food lifestyle. With this network, they could find good solutions with reasonable price. Providers are those individual farmers who prefer to keep (at least partly) traditional agriculture.
Background/ Context: 
Today, people in cities have more interest in rural life and traditional and high quality food (slow food) especially with the industrialization of agriculture and pollution of environment. But there is no information platform for that and no credit system at the beginning. Ainonghui found some farmers who prefer do traditional agriculture (rice, vegetable and poultry) with traditional/local seeds and by natural method and agree on the bargain of products and service. They tried to organize the natural agriculture recourses and keep the quality of products and process. On the other hand, they make more urban people who have interest in it involved in the network to booking and buy the products and service. They also open a showroom/ store to be as a connection between suppliers and consumers.
Case Description: 

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It’s a community support agriculture action and system to connect consumers who have need of high quality food and countryside experience with small agri-producers who keep the traditional species and planting way. On one hand, it makes urban peoples in this community accessible to have food with high quality and special tastes by a reasonable price. And they also could have fantastic experiences of countryside life if they like; on the other hand, with these stable consumers, the individual farmers could have some income and keep their traditional agriculture, which has long term meaning for protection of species diversity.

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

From a micro-scale, those people (promoters, users and provider) self organize a network to connect a gap between the specific need of slow food and week traditional agriculture, which are ignored in general. Furthermore, they establish and grow the trust system in their network.

Peladeiros

Submitted by joonsbaek on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:34am

Countries

Brazil

Tags

soccer, Network, amateur

Themes

cultural activities, neighborhoods
Link: 
Peladeiros
Stakeholders / Promoters: 
A private company, soccer lovers
Background/ Context: 
In August 2000, Felipe Nascimento was organizing a game of football when he realized that, overwhelmed by people who want to participate in the game and people who are waiting to watch the game, there must be a better way to do it. So Felipe worked with development of software for Internet, and soon saw that a small effort a few weeks could solve his problem: it is how the first version of Peladeiro was created. At first, few pages were intended only to his group of friends. He and his friends discovered that the new means of control and organization of groups gave them a lot of fun, and even more, that this small site could be a great means of communication, storage of information, games and entertainment. Realizing the success with his group of friends, he decided to devote a little more so that other people could enjoy such a tool. In January 2001 was in the air Peladeiro.com.br.
Case Description: 

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Peladeiros is a web-based tool that helps people organize soccer matches more efficiently. It is basically a database of the profiles of the registered teams and individual players. The data are customizable so that people can manage the rank of teams and individuals and organize soccer matches according to the rank of the players.

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

•    Social benefits: Although this service was motivated by self-interest to entertain, it also creates opportunities for people to gather, make friends and play together, thus promoting social conviviality through sports.

DESIS Europe Network

Submitted by francois.jegou on Sun, 06/27/2010 - 11:59am

Tags

Network, Desis network, DESIS Europe

DESIS Europe Network

A Network on Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability in Europe

Press release:

Social innovation is pointed by all part as the next source of inspiration and force of implementation towards new and more sustainable ways of living. But if everybody from public authorities to business sector seem to be convinced that true social shift away from mainstream consumption society can only start at a local level the question of scaling-up remains: how to step forward from promising micro-experimentations to sustainable macro-transformations of places?

Design Made 09: My perfect neighbours...

Submitted by francois.jegou on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 11:10am

Tags

DESIS Europe, Network

Collaborative services
Design of enabling sharing solutions
Cases and scenarios of design for social innovation and sustainability hosted in the Design Made 09: My perfect neighbours exhibition at the Korean Design Foundation in Seoul from 22th Sept. to 8th Oct. 2009.

“Drills are used in average 4 hours in all their life but if I lend mine to my neighbours I am sure it will come back broken one day…”; “I have plenty of stuff that I don’t use in my basement but it’s too complicated to find who may need them…”; “People don’t pay attention when they use good collectively. They don’t clean them after use and they don’t maintain them properly just because they don’t feel responsible for it…”