The theme of this month’s TIM Review is social innovation, as enabled by technology. The articles collected are representative of social innovation work taking place today in Canada. The first article examines the shift from social innovations to social innovation systems, designed to replace maladaptive institutions and obsolete policy frameworks with novel and disruptive means for improving outcomes. The next article describe the opportunities for newly available digitized information to enhance decision making in the non-profit sector, while highlighting the cultural shifts that are required to realize the full potential of these opportunities. The third article is a case study of Evergreen Brickworks, Canada’s first large-scale community environmental centre, which is also a venue for celebrating innovation in urban greening. The authors of the fourth article share experiences from their health and social venture, which uses technology to engage and inform individuals, their personal networks, and their care providers to co-create the best outcomes. In the fifth article, the author reports on his early experiences with a “hackathon” approach to stimulating innovative solutions to front-line healthcare problems. In the last article, the author describes the Platformation project, through which non-profit organizations can identify sets of cloud-computing tools that will work well together and will help them function more effectively by increasing collaboration, transparency, and efficiency within their own organizations and with other, like-minded organizations.

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