Solutions Hub

In response to the question of "How do we find solutions?", we have categorized and listed some solutions hubs. This will also act as a beta version of a future Solutions Hub website, although if this scrappy version works, we don't actually need to.

We like solutions that have a seed of structural change embedded in them.

Solution Hubs

Evidence Clearing Houses or 'What Works' Hubs

These are hubs curated and led from a scientific approach

Campbell Collaboration

https://www.campbellcollaboration.org/

This an evidence-based clearing house that consolidates of systematic reviews so as to understand what works. It focuses on broader social domains and was inspired by the Cochrane Collaboration that focuses on health and medical care.

You can click on their link to evidence portals to find other sites classified by domains like disability, education, social welfare etc.

What Works Network

Set up by the UK Government to help them improve the creation, sharing and use of evidence for public services. Made up of separate 'What Works Centres' focusing on ageing, children, homelessness etc.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-works-network

Civic Participation or Democratic Innovation Hubs

Participedia

https://participedia.net/

Crowdsourced approaches and case studies on civic participation and democratic innovations. Click on their methods to get a sense of the solutions they care about.

Democracy Collaborative

https://democracycollaborative.org/

They have also set up separate programmes and have links to these other websites:

https://community-wealth.org/ (focuses on building community wealth)

https://thenextsystem.org/ (focuses on systems change because 'systemic problems require systemic solutions')

Solutions Journalism

https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/
Journalists who report about solutions rather than just problems. These stories are searchable in a database called their Story Tracker.

https://nextcity.org/

https://www.yesmagazine.org/

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/

https://www.impactboom.org/

Social or Policy Innovation Labs

https://neweconomics.org/

https://www.nesta.org.uk/

Join Others: Connect to Learn, or Collaborate to Implement

These are ideas that some groups are interested to learn more about. Others already have Informal Networks or Communities of Practice in Singapore interested or even ready to implement. If they are listed here, they are keen to engage with potential partners or just people who are curious.

[We'll insert contact information of the people, groups or organizations interested in each concept as we go along]

Citizen Participation

Open Collaboration, Co-Production, Deliberative Polling

Crowdlaw

https://thegovlab.org/project/project-crowdlaw

Participatory Budgeting

https://cobudget.com/

Children's Assemblies

Children's Parliament (India)

Capital of Children (Billund, Denmark)

Governance, Organisations & Organising

Sociocracy

Beyond Social Services has embarked on an organizational transformation journey using sociocracy.

Money

Community Currencies

See this page on Community Currency

Interest-Free Loans

The Institute of Policy Studies has secured funding from The Ngee Ann Kongsi and currently designing an interest-free loans project to be implemented with Yishun FSC (Singapore Children's Society) and Beyond Social Services. We are trying to work out whether mobile banking platform LUCY will legally be allowed to disburse loans. See ST coverage and request for a background brief if interested.

Offers:

• Open to new implementing partners. Contact Justin Lee from IPS.

Abundant Community Initiative / Giving Circles

Abundant Community Initiative

Work

Worker and Platform Cooperative Network

Worker and Platform Cooperative Network

This is an informal network for 1) non-profits, community groups or entrepreneurs interested to start a worker or platform coop; 2) consultants interested in providing technical assistance; 3) funders interested to resource; 4) existing cooperatives and their associations and 5) researchers interested to study and understand them.

Games, Sports, Fun and Conviviality

Games for Change

https://www.gamesforchange.org/

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043489/locally-played/

Dance

https://www.nolightsnolycra.com/

Study Trips - Possible Destinations

New Zealand

Well-being Protocol

https://www.thewellbeingprotocol.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD5jmmGxqS4

[Read the White Paper]

[Community share info with one another, needs, then invite SSAs to come and fund and help community, instead of other way around]

Living Economies

https://livingeconomies.nz/

NPO that educates on community currencies and LETs