Measuring the immeasurable

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.