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Societal Thinking: Pathway to exponential change (Part-1)
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Societal Thinking: Pathway to exponential change (Part-1)

Solving together, at scale
Created bySanjay Purohit
Last updated 8/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • What is Societal Thinking?
  • Why is it relevant now?
  • How is Societal Thinking put into practice?
  • What are the required mindset shifts?

Course content

3 sections • 19 lectures • 1h 25m total length

  • Introduction to Societal Thinking3:07

    Societal Thinking is a way to to induce exponential change by reimagining social problems. It helps change leaders to find new ways of solving problems - by bringing together diverse sets of people, restoring their agency and providing them with accessible infrastructure that enables them to solve their own problems.

  • Stories from the ground3:24

    Snippets of some on-ground stories powered by Societal Thinking. Many similar social transformations feed into developing and furthering this thinking to create pathways for exponential scale in diverse domains and contexts.

  • +1 to other forms of thinking3:49

    Societal Thinking can be leveraged along with models like Design Thinking and Systems Thinking, to solve social challenges at scale. It could be an intuitive next step, or a +1 step, for change leaders practicing other forms of thinking in their respective domains and contexts.

  • Solve together and accelerate | Viraj Tyagi2:01

    Viraj Tyagi, CEO, eGovernments Foundation shares his experience in dealing with fast growing issues of the present day. These challenges can be addresses by working together and building solutions that drive exponential change. Societal Thinking is one such way of driving exponential social change.

  • Need to think together and cocreate | Marjan Gryson2:08

    Marjan Gryson, Principal Co-Founder, Touché shares her thoughts on leveraging Societal Thinking to create more spaces for everyone come together, think and co-create solutions that take us towards more sustainable living.

  • Urgent and Mission Critical | Lalitesh Katragadda3:09

    Lalitesh Katragadda, Founder, Indihood shares his thoughts on systems working in non-performing equilibriums and the need for them to be upended to provide options for all citizens.

  • Speed, Scale, Sustainably3:58

    Social challenges are emergent and hence the solutions also need to have similar characteristics. We need to work with a sense of urgency while retaining the focus and energy by creating the infrastructure and networks to outsmart the challenges.

Requirements

  • No pre-requisites. This course is designed to serve value to everyone regardless of their experience.

Description

Social problems are large, complex and tend to grow much faster than our individual ability to solve them. Societal Thinking provides a set of values and design principles to reimagine and redesign the core interactions between key actors of society in a way that induces exponential change.


“ Exponential change ~ when every change induces more and rapid changes”


Societal Thinking enables:

  • Radical Inclusion: by reimagining how the key actors of the society (like communities, markets, government, civil society) interact with each other

  • Enhanced Ability to solve: by creating assets & infrastructure that are open & accessible by all

  • Diverse Solutions: by designing spaces that allow everyone to solve in the way that works best for them


Societal Thinking has manifested in a variety of ways to induce exponential change:

  • as blueprints that help governments reimagine the development narrative

  • as reusable building blocks (like legos) that can be used in many different combinations to accelerate the rate of building a solution

  • as Societal Platforms, audacious endeavours (e.g. quality healthcare for all) that accelerates social change at population scale by building open technology, inspiring co-creation and orchestrating ecosystems.


Just as a thousand mice don’t make an elephant, replicating small solutions won’t solve a large problem at scale. For things to work at scale, they need to be designed such that problems get solved – not because of one idea or one ideator, but because it’s easy for diverse actors to come together to solve.

Societal Thinking can help design such systems.

Who this course is for:

  • Social Entrepreneurs
  • Systems Leaders
  • Design Thinkers
  • Social change leaders
  • Social sector consultants
  • Funder collectives
  • Thought leaders
  • Strategic thinkers
  • Scale thinkers

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