What was on track
Systems Spectrum Session, hosted as a collaboration between UNDP and States of Change, were open to all."Inclusive Systems Innovation: big collaborations and small circles"
2020 has seen some big headlines. The global disruption has meant large scale system transitions have become more necessary, and more visible. There is also activity behind the headlines. What happens when we look to instances of big collaborations and small circles? What is their role in emerging systems? Systems transitions are not smooth or clean experiences. There is no clear start or clear end, even the smallest shifts are usually slow, and gritty work. More and more we’re seeing the need for better collaborations, genuine power sharing and meaningful cross-sector coalitions as a more effective, and inclusive way to bring about these transitions.
Join us for a conversation with Kelly Ann (Beyond Sticky Notes) and Felicity and Hya (WeSolve) as they share their experiences of working within systems, with small circles and with a purposely wide range of collaborators.
- They will share their thoughts on:
- the ‘boring revolution’ and its role in system transition
- the role of small circles in transition to the new system
- the role of radical collaborations in transitioning to the new system
- why we need more ‘co-heroes’ and less heroes
- how systems are built on relationships and how to prioritise them in your work
- some recent examples of system change initiatives in the Philippines
- how they work to meaningfully connect with their community
- how, in their different contexts they work to ensure that new voices of power and experience are heard and centred
Navigating Systems Transitions: the view from data labs
Join us as we talk with Thea Snow, of the Center for Public Impact, Enrico and Jonathan from the UNDP Philippines, who will be sharing a little about the newly formed Pintig Lab and Petrarca from the Pulse Lab (Jakarta). These are two different stories, yet with many emerging insights of how to understand, and interact with systems.
The Pulse Lab Jakarta is one of three UN networked-innovation labs, established based on a recognition that digital data offer opportunities to gain a better understanding of changes in human well-being, and to get real-time feedback on how well policy responses are working.
Pintig Lab (‘Heartbeat’ in Filipino) is designed to measure the country’s socio-economic health in response to the government’s COVID-19 amelioration programme. It is set up to ingest, synthesize, visualize, and analyze, with the aid of Artificial Intelligence and predictive software, a wide array of high frequency data, administrative data, app based, on-line enabled, and household level surveys and translate these into real time policy and programme advice. This session is an opportunity to hear from two uniquely placed data labs - we encourage you to submit your questions, in advance.
Long-termism for Policymaking with The Long Time ProjectShort-term mindsets and structures across business, government and society are threatening our collective future. The next few decades will be pivotal for the billions of species who have yet to be born. We have to start thinking and acting for the long-term. The political and bureaucratic structures of our representative
Democracies have been built to prioritize the short-term interests of present generations – from electoral cycles to accounting and budgeting systems focus on short horizons – ignoring the needs of our future. At the same time, we can see ancient and modern practices – from elder women councils to commissioners for future generations – that cultivate long-term mindsets for immediate action.We would love to explore these tools and practices with you.
The Learning Curve: insights from COVID to climate change
What are we learning from the pandemic that could help us respond to that other crisis, climate change? There have been vague assertions about the need to use COVID muscle memory on future challenges, like climate change. But what if we seized this opportunity to learn those lessons while they were hot?
While we are still some way from emerging from this current global health and economic crisis, it is not too early to start investigating the newfound agency, collaboration and policy experimentation that has arisen during the pandemic. If we are to honour our commitments to the Paris Agreement goals, we are going to have to embark on an analogous journey of leadership, policy experimentation, and society-scale behaviour change that we have seen during the pandemic.
Join us to hear from States of Change and Climate KIC, as they share the latest project they are working on to capture and codify pandemic policies and practice that could be explicitly redirected to decarbonising our way of life. This project is still in development, and the audience is invited to give feedback and direction to where we go next with these ideas.
A letter to my younger (Innovator) selfWe’re asking our peers to write a letter to themselves about a time they learnt big lessons, the hard way. Think Mortified but less teenage angst and more useful lessons from failure. We talk a lot about learning from failure. As someone who works in this space you’re meant to be comfortable with discomfort, you’re meant to see not failing but learning. But - let’s be real, do you ever actually escape that moment of ‘oh sh*t’ when you start to realise things are not going as planned?
Join us for the final session of the week where we gather some seasoned practitioners, all of whom have seen their fair share of lessons, as they read letters to their younger, fictional selves about how they handled failure, and in hindsight how funny (or not) the situation seems to be.
*To preserve the dignity of our guests this session will not be recorded :)
