%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2008 %T Social Innovation: Access and Leadership %A Roseann O'Reilly Runte %X We live in an age where the rapid pace of technological innovation and the ability to disseminate knowledge far exceed our capacity to ensure that all members of society receive their benefits. The challenges in providing access to technology have been largely solved in this globally connected world. How to best use that technology to increase social value and alleviate lack of education, poverty, and other societal problems is an ongoing question with no easy answers. This article explores the challenges for social innovation and the use of information technology. These challenges are: i) access to technology; ii) access to learning; iii) the use of technology in teaching and research; and iv) the establishment of a framework of knowledge. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 09/2008 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/186 %N September 2008 %9 Articles %1 Carleton University Dr. Roseann O'Reilly Runte is President and Vice-Chancellor of Carleton University. She is the author of numerous scholarly works in the fields of French and comparative literature. She has written extensively on economic and cultural development, higher education and the importance of research. In addition, she is a creative writer and has received a prize in poetry from the Academie francaise. Dr. Runte has been awarded the Order of Canada and the French Order of Merit and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.