Above: A*Social Good Summit Miami*panel on “Design: A Tool for Change” brought local leaders in entrepreneurship together to rethink engagement and social entrepreneurship. Photo by Jayme Gershen.
By Jenna Buehler, for the Knight Foundation
Miami’s biggest challenge may be its obsession with examining its biggest challenges, according to city leaders.
The second annual Social Good Summit Miami assembled influencers at the MiamiInnovationCenter to discuss ways of taking local action while thinking globally. The collision of voices across the city -- in philanthropy, sustainability, art, technology, education, city services and local government -- identified what assets need to be leveraged today to make Miami a world-class city tomorrow.
Since 2010, innovators worldwide have live-streamed +SocialGood conversations as an extension of Mashable’shyperlocal campaign to solve the world’s challenges by 2030.
Summit organizer Michelle Dow, owner and founder of Social Swag Co., said that the summit held in late September and co-sponsored by Knight Foundation, originally came to Miami as a result of civic and community engagement research that ranked Miami as the least-engaged city in the United States. Panelists across all sectors, however, suggested that the statistics of yesterday don’t apply to the city’s current synergy and that the elements for success already exist.