Growing the core economy - an opportunity for co-production

Our friends at Social Innovation Generation (SiG) @ MaRS have a great event coming up this upcoming Monday evening featuring Lucie Stephens, who will talk about co-production as a new way of thinking about public services. Here's the invitation we were sent.

When: Monday July 15, 2013, 5:30-7:00pm
Where: MaRS, Auditorium, 101 College Street, Toronto
Cost: $25 - register through Eventbrite

Social Innovation Generation is very pleased to invite you to the next event in our Inspiring Action for Social Impact Series, to hear Lucie Stephens, the Head of Co-production in the Social Policy team at nef (new economics foundation). Join us on Monday, July 15, as Lucie describes co-production as a new way of thinking about public services.

Public services face great challenges: increasing demand, rising expectations, entrenched social problems and reduced budgets. Reform is not enough to overcome these―radical innovation is needed, and must move from the margins to the mainstream.

But what should inform this radical innovation?

Co-production has the potential to revolutionize how we deliver health, education, policing and other services, making them more effective, efficient and sustainable.

What is co-production? Co-production has been described as the means of delivering public services in an equal and reciprocal relationship between professionals, people using services, their families and their neighbours. Where beneficial activities are co-produced in this way, both services and neighbourhoods become far more effective agents of change. (Download Co-Production: A manifesto for growing the core economy by nef to learn more.)

Come learn more as Lucie presents this innovative methodology.

Hope to see you there!