Defining a Shared Platform in China to Propose a Social, Cultural and Technological Bridge

摘要

China's continuous and swift transformations pose relevant challenges to a sustainable development in all three areas: social, ecological and economical. Several national policies are implemented to guide these transitions within supported, non-disruptive solutions, seeking to keep an overall balance in the very dynamic socio-economic framework. These policies are generally implemented separately. This paper presents a possible proposal to link an economical policy to a social one through a design driven approach for social innovation: how to create a potentially beneficial link between the major social challenges of the elderly and the family in rural areas and the "Mass Innovation Entrepreneurship", one of the policies to support the transition from "factory of the world" to Made in China and Design in China. This could impact millions of families and offer a new social implementation for a tech driven phenomena.