Open Societal Development

A new way to catalyze ecosystems to resolve societal challenges.

Large-scale societal challenges call for a new way of thinking that enables rapid sustainable development. An approach that creates a shared infrastructure that lets every actor in the society to participate in social innovation.

Learn how Societal Platforms could create an environment that leverages the power of networks, and allows for the co-creation of solutions to resolve societal challenge.

THE IDEA

How do we distribute the ability to solve societal challenges, empower each organisation and get scalability across diverse environments?

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Sea Change

Rohini Nilekani, Chairperson, Arghyam and Director, EkStep Foundation and Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, EkStep Foundation, invite you to embark on an exciting journey of developing and applying the idea of Societal Platforms to enable open societal development.

Restoring Agency

Create an enabling environment for individuals and institutions to exercise choice and imagination.

Resolving for Scale

Engage with problems from multiple perspectives and improve the adoption of relevant solutions by all segments of society.

Catalysing Networks

Facilitate interactions between state, civil society and markets to leverage existing infrastructure.

Distributing Ability to Solve

Enhance the capabilities of diverse entities to respond quickly and directly with contextual solutions.

Inspiring Co-creation

Create an enabling environment for all actors to interact and collaborate in innovating relevant solutions.

Developing Public Goods

Make scarce resources abundant in an open and equitable manner.

Distributing Value Creation

Enable all actors of the society to create, share, as well as make use of the value produced.

Embracing Rapid Evolution

Retain flexibility to develop new capabilities for all entities by rapidly generalising specific solutions and innovations.

Demonstrating System Leadership

Nurture a leadership ecosystem that anticipates and co-creates solutions based on a systemic view of the challenges.

Empowering with Data

Help stakeholders use data to discover new problems to solve, or to make existing solutions more effective.