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 Informal Networks and Communities of Practice in Singapore interested in a specific concept or and keen to find out more, while some are more ready to implement. If they are listed here, they are keen to engage with potential partners or just people who are curious.

Citizen Participation

Open Collaboration, Co-Production, Deliberative Polling

Crowdlaw

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

Children's Assemblies

Children's Parliament (India)

Capital of Children (Billund, Denmark)

Money

Community Currency

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.

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.