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Design for Social Impact: Discussion with Jocelyn Wyatt via Acumen Fund Blog August 12th, 2008 at 20:52

image Over at Social Edge, former Acumen Fund Fellow and current IDEO employee is leading an online discussion about designing for social impact. This is a natural topic for Jocelyn, whose blog - Design and Reach - covers these topics. Beyond her blog, Jocelyn has - in her IDEO capacity - worked with The Rockefeller Foundation to develop a very handy workbook and guide for companies looking to design for social impact. Finally, she wrote a guest post about the project over at NextBillion.net, the Acumen Fund / World Resources Institute blog exploring development through enterprise and base of the pyramid strategy. The Social Edge-hosted online discussion is underway. Jocelyn has introduced it as follows: Design and innovation have been increasingly recognized as important factors in the...