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Measuring the immeasurable
pp. 289-308
Abstract
Sustainable disruptive social changes, such as ending embedded poverty, large-scale mobilization of volunteers, innovative crowd sourcing for knowledge and advanced learning applications, fit in a global context of transition. Social innovations such as ATK (Armen TeKort (Pooring Over)) develop strategies, concepts and new networked organizational models to achieve seemingly impossible social change. They extend and strengthen civil society through engagements from previously willing but inactive citizens in a structured manner. ATK, the social innovation project we will highlight in this article, tries to obtain social change through buddy systems. However, measuring and perfecting the ongoing learning progress of these buddy systems directed toward empowerment in order to get control over poverty is a continuous challenge.
Publication details
Published in:
Langenberg Suzan, Beyers Fleur (2018) Citizenship in organizations: practicing the immeasurable. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 289-308
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60237-0_15
Full citation:
Vaes Theo (2018) „Measuring the immeasurable“, In: S. Langenberg & F. Beyers (eds.), Citizenship in organizations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 289–308.