Social innovation

The deliberate development in a wide variety of domains of new techniques, ideas, systems and organizations designed to create more opportunity, more equity and more unity than is provided by existing social institutions and processes. Such innovations are focused on improving the environment of the individual human being and facilitating the development of the network of social interactions in which he is embedded as well as his own personal development. To this end innovations may be explored in such domains as: organizational and administrative structures; technological systems; designed environments; social decision making, control and participation systems; legal structures; energy systems; and information systems.