Social Innovation Generation (SiG)

This lecture is being hosted online at www.sig.uwaterloo.ca beginning Wednesday, January 27 at 7PM EST, to watch the live webcast of the Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation featuring Adam Kahane.

An internationally acclaimed social innovator, once praised by South Africa's Nelson Mandela, Adam Kahane will deliver this year’s Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation and will present new ideas on how to achieve significant, durable social change for pressing and increasingly complex social problems. In the lecture, Kahane will draw on his extensive experience working with business, government, and civil society leaders from around the world to help them address their toughest challenges. The lecture, entitled "Power & Love", will explore the role that these seemingly opposing forces play in affecting positive social change.

Social Innovation Generation (SIG) has launched a new version of its website and has even more interesting material to check out.

For its first Paralympic Torchbearer, RBC selected Al Etmanski, an author and co-founder of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN), which was instrumental in advocating for the new Registered Disability Savings Plan and assists families across Canada and globally in addressing the financial and social well-being of relatives with a disability.

Graham MacLachlan, regional president, RBC, British Columbia, said: "Al Etmanski has long demonstrated his commitment to helping people with disabilities and their families succeed through his work as an advocate and social entrepreneur. RBC is proud to select him as our first Paralympic Torchbearer on this historic relay."

MARS is hosting a series of very interesting events, including this one, which includes Al Etmanski presenting:

ACCELERATING SOCIAL INNOVATION – SMART IDEAS FOR CANADA

NOVEMBER 10, 2009
9:00am-5:00pm
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Partners: Public Policy Forum, Imagine Canada

A multi-sector conversation about social innovation and how it can change the way we support and interact with each other in the 21st century.

Social Innovation Generation (SiG) is a national partnership that fosters innovative approaches to addressing Canada’s social and ecological challenges.  SiG was created to generate and support social innovations that are resilient and sustainable.