Wikipedia: Social innovations are new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet the socialneeds of different elements which can be from working conditions and education to community development and health — they extend and strengthen civil society. Social innovation includes the social processes of innovation, such as open source methods and techniques and also theinnovations which have a social purpose — like online volunteering, microcredit, or distance learning.
And, just as with technological innovation, encounter lots of resistance…
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