Social enterprise models
How do social enterprises balance mission, revenue and accountability as they grow?
Society for Social Enterprise and Digital Innovation
Social enterprise.Digital futures.
An independent scholarly initiative connecting research and practice in social enterprise, artificial intelligence and community innovation.
Independent. Online-first. Open to inquiry.
THE SEDI PERSPECTIVE01 — 03
How do social enterprises balance mission, revenue and accountability as they grow?
When does digital change help a nonprofit or social enterprise, and when does it add burden?
How do local initiatives turn new ideas into lasting change, and who decides what counts as success?
01Our mission
Social purpose meets digital possibility.
New tools raise enduring questions about purpose, participation and accountability. We connect these questions to the everyday decisions of social enterprises, nonprofits and communities.
Get to know SEDI02OUR RESEARCH AGENDA
Questions worth
working on.
Three perspectives on the organisations, technologies and local relationships that shape social value.
03THE READING DESK
Start with
the evidence.
A growing, curated list of public materials on social enterprise, digital transformation and research practice.
Browse the reading deskEMES
Research on social enterprise (opens an external site)
A starting point for work on social enterprise, solidarity economy and social innovation.
UNESCO
Recommendation on the Ethics of AI (opens an external site)
A human-rights framework for examining fairness, transparency and human oversight in AI.
04FROM THE SOCIETY
A new space
for shared inquiry.
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SEDI is online
The SEDI website brings together our research agenda, working principles and initial reading desk. It is a first step towards an open conversation on social enterprise and digital innovation.
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