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Teaching skills to solve local community challenges
Introducing Twende, a centre in Tanzania that supports people to design and make their own technologies to solve local challenges.
Everything tagged “Human Centered Design”
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Innovating humanitarian response for refugees
We talk to the makers of KwikSense, a plug & play sensor platform that provides real-time temperature data of refugee enclosures.
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Using human-centred design at DFID
The UK government department on how human-centred design can help development programmes to be more innovative and effective.
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Navigating Indonesia’s data innovation ecosystem: A reflection
The UN’s Pulse Lab Jakarta looks back over its first five years of data explorations, and the growing data-for-good network in Indonesia.
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Three years of exploration at UNDP Asia-Pacific
Reflecting on the achievements and lessons learned after three years of working on bringing innovation practice into the development world.
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From troublemakers to transformation leads
Benjamin Kumpf talks about the UNDP innovation champion programmes that are helping to create a new normal in the way that they work.
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Tips on hosting public service design workshops
The UN Global Pulse team in Jakarta share their advice on running public service design workshops, which they’ve been using to identify opportunities for data innovation in frontline services.
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Innovating Eurasia: an introduction from UNDP
As early adopters of UNDP’s innovation agenda, UNDP Eurasia talk about the role innovation has to play in achieving the SDGs, how they’ve adopted new methods and tools, and the impact these have had.
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Gaming for taboo-breaking: building a sex education app
Gracia Respati of civil society org OnTrackMedia Indonesia shares her experience of designing a sex education mobile app as part of the MAMPU (Empowering Women for Poverty Reduction) programme in Indonesia.
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Using illustrations & simulations to design with the community
UNHCR Innovation’s Learning Lab Manager Jacqueline Strecker describes how using human-centred methods helped engage a local refugee community in the design of their own educational programme.