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Greetings. I'm Aneeqa Malik.
I'm the Research
Associate and Co-founder
of Trans4m Communiversity
Associates.
We are a local global
association or
communiversity of
integral enterprise
and societies from
around the world.
Today, I will be orienting
you to what we call
social innovation.
Especially coming from
the integral theory
and practice that
was designed and
developed by Professor
Ronnie Lessem and
Alexander Schieffer and
their associates from
around the world.
Today the topic is, why
social innovation falls behind
technological innovation.
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As presented in our
previous presentation,
the term innovation
is mostly used to
represent technical and
technological innovation.
It reflects advancement
in core industries.
For example, from
information technology
to chemistry and biotechnology,
from solar energy to
medical products.
Billions of dollars are pumped
into research and development to
enable technological
innovation to
take place in those sectors.
Yet as materialism advances
there is an increasing
sense of unrest,
insecurity, and lack of
rootedness psychologically
and spiritually.
But quite often we
turn to economics and
technology to find the solutions
for such social problems.
We want our industries to
become more
environmentally friendly.
We want our pharmaceutical
companies and globally
initiated health initiatives to
solve our health problems.
We want technology to
be developed to resolve
the digital divide and we want
trade and growth to
create wealth for all.
The industrialized
societies believe
that once the poor countries
have developed economies with
technology thereby
playing a major part,
many of the current problems
will be solved automatically.
