MDANTSANE
DESIGN THINKING
A number of community members recently collaborated to imagine ways to improve life in Mdantsane. Top ideas emerged from this workshop and are now being taken through to the Innovation Prototyping phase.
Workshop
The goal of the initial Design Thinking workshop was to uncover new opportunities that might empower Mdantsane to reap the maximum benefits from improved internet access, while also enabling social and environmental sustainability.
IMAGINING FUTURES
ASPIRATIONS & OPPORTUNITIES
Utilising existing potential to enable self-sustainability
Enhancing youth development
Creating tangible pathways for SME's to succeed
Enabling skills exchange in the community
Encouraging a sense of self-improvement
Apps for reporting of environmental / municipal issues
NEEDS IDENTIFIED
Outcomes
The team created a map of Mdantsane that captured new ideas and the potential linkages between them. The following core, interrelated themes emerged:
- Creating a digital marketplace of local businesses
- Promoting a youth-led initiative to lead the digitalisation process
- Enable skills sharing across local business
- Utilising location verification services to enable safe access from outside Mdantsane
- Partnering with local universities to drive development
CHALLENGE TO BIOLOGY
- How can the Mdantsane community promote collaboration and leverage existing richness, diversity skills and resources?
- How can we create an early warning system to alert the community about hazards such as uncontrolled fires, weather disasters, crime and violence, or civil unrest?
COLLABORATE
Are you interested in collaborating?
Get in touch, we would love to hear from you.
