Archive - Armillaria

Why we need dissident tech, now!

By which we mean a tech stack for and by the social change industry. Since Silicon Valley tech is not only not fit for purpose, it's downright…

May 16 •

Dr. Astrid J. Scholz

January 2025

Why the social change industry needs its own tech stack

The latest from Meta illustrates why the people working to solve the ills of the world shouldn't rely on commercial and corruptible platforms to do so.

Jan 10 •

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Dr. Astrid J. Scholz

January 2024

Armillaria Acquires NeedsList in a Strategic Move to Enhance Crisis Resilience

Acquisition Signals a Milestone in Tech-for-Good

Jan 8, 2024 •

September 2023

The Sustainable Development Goals require standards, not silver bullets

The United Nations should urgently open-source the standards it has created, and the data it collects, in order to achieve planetary coordination to…

Sep 13, 2023 •

Cameron Burgess

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Dr. Astrid J. Scholz

August 2023

Innovation Liquidity is a force multiplier for solving the SDGs

“Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.” ~ President…

Aug 1, 2023 •

Cameron Burgess

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Dr. Astrid J. Scholz

June 2023

Mobilising Impact Finance to Fix the World–before it’s too late

Designing new capital ecosystems, together, is one way in which we can unlock and catalyse our extraordinary collective potential in extremely pragmatic…

Jun 15, 2023 •

Cameron Burgess

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Dr. Astrid J. Scholz

In Pursuit of Impact: Choosing Zebras Over Unicorns

All businesses wield impact — whether they label themselves as impact-driven or not.

Jun 13, 2023 •

Dr. Astrid J. Scholz

December 2022

2022 — a year of systems change in review

If 2022 showed us anything, it’s that the “normal” so many legacy institutions have been seeking a return to, is forever out of reach.

Dec 16, 2022 •

August 2021

10 Principles for Designing Platforms with Purpose

The early decades of the 21st century are characterised by global social, economic, and ecological problems. How do we design global-scale solutions…

Aug 20, 2021 •

Cameron Burgess

May 2021

Sphaera and Uncompromise launch systems design lab Armillaria

Systems engineering firm Sphaera, and impact consultancy Uncompromise have merged and relaunched as Armillaria to focus on co-creating critical digital…

May 4, 2021 •

Cameron Burgess

March 2018

Mobilising the Missing Trillions to Solve the Sustainable Development Goals

Each year hundreds of millions of people work in tens of millions of organisations, and deploy trillions of dollars in an effort to solve the most…

Mar 3, 2018 •

Cameron Burgess

February 2018

Requiem for a dream…of an online impact investing platform

With Audrey Selian and Jeff Tuller

Feb 14, 2018 •

Dr. Astrid J. Scholz

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