For much of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with social entrepreneurs, governments, and communities who are reimagining how to solve challenges. What I’ve seen time and again is that good ideas are everywhere, but too often, they remain small, isolated, and disconnected from the systems that shape people’s daily lives.
This is one of the reasons we created the Government Council for Social Innovation (GCSI). The goal is simple but urgent: to bring social innovation from the margins into the mainstream of governance. To show that innovation isn’t only about new tools or technologies, it’s about equity, legitimacy, and trust at the core of public systems.
Through this blog, I’ll be sharing the journey of GCSI. That means exploring the lessons we’re learning with our partner countries, unpacking the strategies we’re developing, and reflecting on why legitimacy and inclusion matter just as much as performance.
The work is about scaling what works, but also about reshaping how governments relate to the people they serve. As the GCSI strategy says, “Public systems must be able to demonstrate that they are legitimate, not only through performance, but through relationships.”
I hope these posts spark conversations and questions. And I invite you to read, share, and engage, because building better systems is not the work of a few. It’s a collective effort.
