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How might we increase the availability of affordable learning tools & services for students in the developing world?
Concept
An Innovation Academy for Kid Entrepreneurs
India is awash in kid entrepreneurs. Help them succeed better using the IDEO HCD toolkit or the Stanford d.school Design Thinking Workshop as a foundational curriculum. Connect them to each other with the internet and used smart-phones. Let them teach other kids by organizing their own TEDx conference.
http://www.ideo.com/work/item/human-centered-design-toolkit/
Another great design thinking resource for kids is the d.school K-12 Lab at Stanford:
https://dschool.stanford.edu/groups/k12/wiki/ae1bc/6_Session_Design_Thinking_Workshop.html
The IDEO HCD toolkit or the d.school Design Thinking Workshop could be the core curriculum of local "innovation academies" for kid entrepreneurs. By following the HCD process, who knows what solutions to pressing problems the kids might come up with!
They could be connected to each other with hole-in-the-wall internet and used smart-phones. They could teach other kids by organizing their own local TEDx conferences.
Who would implement this?
- A big company
- A local entrepreneur or small organization
- A globally-based social entrepreneur
- NGOs and Foundations
- I would!
Cost
IDEO has already produced and generously released the HCD Toolkit to foster emergent, grassroots innovation. The d.school K-12 Lab at Stanford also has excellent materials for teaching design thinking to kids. The kids would be co-partners in running workshops at the innovation academy.
Distribution & Delivery
Ask school kids to volunteer for design thinking workshops at the innovation academy. Let them go out and find kid entrepreneurs in the field to partner with for effective, real-world innovation to emerge.
Adoption
Word of mouth recruitment, localized comic book describing the design thinking process and its benefits
Downloads
d.school K-12 Lab Guide to Design Thinking: designthinkingintro.pdf
Stanford K12 Lab Design Thinking Comic: k12designcomic.pdf
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