Societal Thinking - Enabling exponential social change

Find your exponential

Societal Thinking is a way to reimagine and realise exponential change – change that inspires more and rapid change.

Reimagine solving at scale, with speed, sustainably

The world is grappling with problems that are large, complex and mutate faster than any individual or organisation can solve them. Now is the time to reimagine tackling existing problems and plan for emerging uncertainties. Now is the time to counter exponential problems with exponential change – change that inspires more and rapid change.

How Societal
Thinking works

Societal Thinking has been developed by co-travelling over 500+ journeys of exponential change with System Orchestrators across 20 countries

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+1 thinking

Principles of Design Thinking – human-centricity, iteration, and prototyping, and Systems Thinking – interconnectedness, emergence, and feedback loops, inform Societal Thinking.

Radical inclusion

Exponential change ensures agency, dignity and choice for all, by reimagining how the key actors of the society (like communities, markets, government, civil society) interact with each other.

Societal Model

A framework to reimagine and design for change at societal scale, with speed and sustainably It has 3 key components: Societal Networks, Co-creation Ecosystem and Shared Infrastructure.

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Focus domains

Equity

Could a strong care economy lead to women’s equal participation in the economy?

Livelihoods

Is irreversible economic mobility for everyone possible?

Climate

Could the agency of communities be restored to drive climate action?

Health

Could first-mile actors deliver high-performing primary health services?

Education

Could a network of actors reimagine early childhood development?

500+

organisations

20+

countries

5 domains

“Societal Thinking presents an opportunity to change the way we tackle social problems – to design for more inclusion, more access, more co-creation and more resilience.”

Rohini Nilekani

Chairperson of Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies

“Societal Platforms are audacious endeavours that converge the power of networks, open innovation and shared digital infrastructure to give voice and agency to every individual.”

Nandan Nilekani

Co-founder, Infosys

“Thoughtfully developed digital public infrastructure, imagined as Societal Platforms, can form the backbone for an inclusive, resilient and thriving society.”

CV Madhukar

CEO, Co-Develop Fund

“In Societal Thinking, we have the three principal ingredients of success: scale, diversity and the ability to solve that isn’t dependent on an individual or a small group of people.”