Idea Bank
Contents
Meta Ideas
Alternatives to Capitalism
See Research Network here.
Degrowth
Degrowth - See info portal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth
Co-Production
https://www.scie.org.uk/co-production/
4th Generation leaders in Singapore to partner citizens in policy-making. See https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/4g-leaders-will-partner-citizens-in-policymaking and https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/dpm-heng-swee-keat-sets-out-how-4g-leaders-plan-to-take-spore-forward-govt-will-partner
Big Ideas
Basic Income
Worker-owned Cooperatives
Democracy at Work is a non-profit that advocates for worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces as a key path to a stronger, democratic economic system. Based on Richard D. Wolff;s ideas in the book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.
http://community-wealth.org/content/worker-cooperatives
Sanjay Perera, editor of Philosophers For Change, an online journal on alternative socioeconomic paradigms wrote an op-ed on Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises (ST 14 Feb 2015)
Freedom of Information
The Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) is an international information-sharing network of organizations and individuals working to promote the right of access to information.
Ombudsman
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/how-ombudsman-could-benefit-singapore
Participatory Budgeting
https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/what-is-pb/
Connecting addicts and ex-offenders, instead of medicalising and isolating them
Implementable Ideas
Virtual Toy Library
Crowdsource interview questions to ask so that most pertinent questions are answered by the most prominent people
Solutions Focused Think Tanks
New Economics Foundation
London-based think tank that described itself as a people-powered think tank. They champion: "AN ECONOMY FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE"
To do this, "WE WORK WITH PEOPLE IGNITING CHANGE FROM BELOW AND WE COMBINE THIS WITH RIGOROUS RESEARCH TO FIGHT FOR CHANGE AT THE TOP"
"TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE THE RULES TO MAKE THE ECONOMY WORK FOR EVERYONE"
Third Way
DC based think tank that produces policy innovations, rigorous research, and issue campaigns
Tamarack Institute
http://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/
Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Focused on community change. Provides training and fellowships for community changemakers.