UNDP new strategy innovation unit

Yet another clear sign on the shift in #innovation to question frames, focusing on mindsets and organisation cultures etc. beyond methodologies or enabling tecnologies (still important!) https://medium.com/@undp.innovation/innovation-at-undp-changing-ourselves-asking-a-different-type-of-questions-544f7f19b27d

and its relation to actual change and impact on the ground to i.e homelessness & evictions, food scarcity, plastics, floods and other related climate effects, etc.

I would like to add a reflection on being politically situated

I think of Milica, Giulio, Indy (& others I've been exposed less during the years to their work) & their role, being part of a global elite who's work is to have this #innovation conversations and set this new social infrastructures, in recentering social & environmental justice

and wonder what is making them, as people with their own life stories and situations, seem to be committed in bringing forward this agenda. Because yes, organisations such as UNPD will benefit a lot from doing things differently, and thus innovation must be central, and yet,

why in say the last 20 or more years this shifts to re-think big gov org. to shift the indicators that count to every day lives were not occurring? Is it just my skewed percepction because I don't know enough of the history development and gov. agencies?

Is it because the innovation fad is so powerful that becomes a great vehicle to introduce to these orgs' decision makers these changes, besides what I mentioned of course of benefiting from doing things differently?

Is not any generation, with their own technologies (soft and hard), able to do their bests at fostering a common good? It's true that I've been reading lately a bit about the history of commons (Ostroms and also local heritatge in my local context in catalonia)

but I sense that even if it's at the end of each article, strategy, conference, work piece or conversation it is important to keep visible and centered a politically situated view on our efforts (i.e. the comment about moving from silicon valley approaches to innovation),

even if specially in these elite org. spaces there seems to be a cancel culture for anything related with politics, which I can understand in many ways. This situatetedness is even more important when i related to what I mentioned before in thinking about Milica, Giulio and Indy

because the spaces they ocupate for the work they do (locations, social context and interactions, salaries, mobility etc.) I sense subtlely and slowly tend to distract or literally displace from centering social and enviromental justice.