Let’s talk about an organization that I especially like. Nesta is a global innovation foundation. Nesta, or National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, was created in 1998.
The goal of this organization is to “back innovations for the common good”. Nesta is most well-known by service designers like me for their online resources that they publish on their website diytoolkit.org. The toolkit functions to help people invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results.
But let’s not simplify Nesta and reduce it to its tools. There is a huge list of international projects that this foundation does; I’ll mention just a few. Nesta creates support for social entrepreneurs across India, it supports new innovation labs within national city governments, in countries such as Chile and the United Arab Emirates, among doing other things to make the world a nicer place. Congrats for all the good work!
Going further
This article is part of the book "A Tiny History of Service Design, " a tiny two-hour read that goes through the historical events that created what Service Design is today.