#007 Accelerating Sustainability - Gina Lucarelli

In this episode we are really pleased to welcome Gina Lucarelli, who heads up the Accelerator Labs Network for the United Nations which launched recently in 60 countries around the world. Gina is a native New Yorker and has lived and worked all around the world for the last 15 years working with and wrangling colleagues at United Nations to collaborate on sustainable development. She describes herself as an aspiring geek & believer in the comeback of citizen participation. There was so much in there that I found fascinating and inspiring about accelerating sustainable development. From the UN’s role not being about taking humanity to heaven but to saving it from hell. To setting these global goals yet considering how do you keep your promise whilst following how things unfold over time? And from fighting complexity with complexity and operating on many planes, with multiple experiments simultaneously to throw a lot of things at the. We also discuss the collective intelligence playbook which is a free to download guide for tackling complex social and global challenges by combining the best of human ingenuity with machine intelligence, at scale. And all of the links are included below: https://medium.com/@acclabs https://acceleratorlabs.undp.org/ https://www.nesta.org.uk/toolkit/collective-intelligence-design-playbook/ https://www.zebrasunite.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140128-how-wolves-saved-a-famous-park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ I hope you enjoyed listening to this seventh episode of On The Edge. Please rate, comment and subscribe to this podcast, and also share it episode with others who you think might like it too, using the hashtag #ontheedge.  This podcast was brought to you by Liminal - a collective intelligence community to address the complex challenges of our connected world. Thank you for listening.