Placebased Social Innovation in South Auckland Gael Surgenor Director of Community and Social Innovation Auckland Council

The Southern Initiative is a platform for community and social innovation in South Auckland. We work with and support our partners using our assets, leverage and influence to prototype, demonstrate, learn, grow and share what it takes and what is needed to achieve transformational social and economic change.

A prosperous resilient South Auckland where families and communities thrive

Prototyping / Modeling/ Sharing for example Approaches to transformative change Prototyping / Modeling/ Sharing for example News service models; pastoral care Policies & practices; social procurement, wage strategies Building capability; employees & employers Transition pathways from sunset to sunrise industries Image from Māori Pasifika Trades Training The Southern Initiative

Growing capacity/ecosystem for example Approaches to transformative change Growing capacity/ecosystem for example Growing business ecosystem Entrepreneurial capacity Social procurement supply chain He Waka Eke Noa

Technology Platform to enable wellbeing Approaches to transformative change Technology Platform to enable wellbeing Micro payments to grow the youth economy Growing youth entrepreneurial capacity Recognising creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking UP south

Some learning so far Whanau and community co-designed and led Integrated social and economic development Transformation and quality at the centre Holistic and mutually reinforcing Leap frog Local and sustained

Thank you gael.surgenor@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz