What practical plug-ins are needed to bring your work swiftly to new areas and institutions? For some, this means rooting a program locally and open sourcing processes for replication. For others, it means building a network of micro-entrepreneurs or piggy backing into existing local networks. In this session, Fellows will share their experiences in creating local demand, equipping teams and partners with an understanding of their role in the context of national-scale change, efficiently mobilizing local resources, including talent and money, challenges of adoption in new locales, including setting core adoption principles and ensuring quality. The group discussion that follows will get at how we – Ashoka and its partners – can more efficiently and imaginatively dot-connect and support the spread of ideas.
