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After my last post on Kiva I had an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion with my friend and col­league Riccardo.

He never heard about Kiva and was impressed to hear about it.

After a few min­utes we started talk­ing about how small actions can have an impact on the real world.

Kiva is the typ­i­cal case. It’s a col­lec­tion of ‘microac­tions’ com­ing from dif­fer­ent peo­ple around the globe that end up shap­ing a macroac­tion for some­one else.

This is really some­thing we should think about. A small action per­formed in one part of the world may turn in a big action in some other place. We have the power to per­form microac­tions, every­body has the power to per­form microac­tions in our continent. This is a sort of unused power that may prove to be very impor­tant in other con­ti­nents.
In some way this may be a real rev­o­lu­tion­ary approach. I have always though I have a rel­a­tively low power in chang­ing how things works both in my coun­try and in other coun­tries. At the end of the day the only power on gen­eral direc­tions is expressed through the vote in elections.

Microac­tions can rep­re­sent a bottom-​up approach to chang­ing things. Col­lect enough peo­ple with lit­tle power, aggre­gate power and turn it in some­thing effec­tive. This is what Kiva does, and in a very effec­tive way I have to add.
This can eas­ily be applied to the inno­va­tion process. Inno­va­tion does not nec­es­sar­ily pass through a quan­tum leap, but it can also come from a num­ber of infin­i­tes­i­mal steps that will lead to the same result.

Why do I blog this? Well, the dis­cus­sion I had yes­ter­day really impressed me and I wanted to share some of the thoughts.

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