>> We start 7pm at Blücherstraße 22, 10961 Berlin @ "NEST"
Joana Breidenbach, betterplace-lab.org, and Weldon Kennedy, change.org, are experts in the field of online fundraising, mobilisation and the status of the online campaigning world. They´ll hold short presentations each and there´ll be plenty of time to ask questions and have some network leisure time afterwards. The talks will be held in English.
Disrupting the aid industry
Digital media are fundamentally transforming the social sector worldwide; they change the way people give, how companies practice their corporate social responsibility, NGOs operate and (former) beneficiaries organise themselves. I will be looking at a few prominent changes triggered by the digitalisation of the social sphere: the way power is shifting, the role of participation and transparency and the place Germany occupies on the world wide innovation map.
Joana Breidenbach ist co-founder of betterplace.org, Germanys largest online platform for social initiative, where she heads the betterplace lab. The betterplace lab is a think- and do-tank seeking to improve the social sector through the use of digital technologies, offering project managers, donors and social investors decisive knowledge and tools in order to increase the efficiency of their work.
Small Solutions to Big Problems
The biggest problems in the world intimidate us with their complexity and inspire us to dream up impossibly large solutions. Rather than try to move a mountain ourselves, why don't we devise ways for everyone to move one rock? This takes a new pattern of creative thinking, but leads to empowering and powerful solutions to some of the world's biggest problems.
Weldon Kennedy is a campaigner at Change.org - the world's fastest growing platform for social change - focusing on mobilisation in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His campaigning victories include convincing universities to divest from Sudan, overwhelming International Monetary Fund email servers persuading them to cancel Liberia’s debts and convincing the global art community call for the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
(NOTE: This event is meant for free, consider the 5 Euros as a donation for the drinks we´ll serve.)
