Nahyunhong (right) pictured with a cooperative member(Photo courtesy of Nahyunhong)   Social economy and social innovation are not abstract concepts. In practice, they take shape through real people with clear roles, actively working in the field. Among them, those who connect — linking regions and institutions, experimentation and scale — are already playing a critical role in helping social economy and social innovation function effectively and expand further. By identifying needs both online and offline, they create structures that allow actors with different values and speeds to work together.   These community experts are not merely intermediaries; they are practitioners who sustain momentum. They go beyond simply connecting people, supporting collaborations so that they lead to tangible outcomes. While failures and trial-and-error inevitably arise along the way, they help transform these experiences into accumulated knowledge and know-how.   For the social e...