Community Focus with Foresight

• THE PROBLEM
  Pressing social impact issues affecting the growing population in the face of climate change and pandemics in livelihood, food security, and community health.
  
  

• THE SOLUTION
  Digital solutions and innovations can create better incomes and living conditions for rural populations and reverse unfavourable trends. Adopting digital technologies is one of the strongest catalysts for transformative processes to promote rural development, from improved access to services, management and decision-making to increased efficiency, productivity, and new opportunities. The solution lies in increasing the farmers’ productivity while maintaining environmental sustainability and improving public health through stakeholder involvement. This is only possible through deep collaboration and systemic change along the supply chain.
  
  

• OUR ROLE
  Our implementation involved establishing a comprehensive innovation cycle. We invited teams to express their interest in participating in workshops centered around foresight, innovation, and community development. These workshops featured dedicated breakout sessions with our partners to enhance the development of innovative solutions. The top teams received guidance and mentorship from academic partners, and their proposed solutions were field-tested within the community. Our primary objective was to deliver tailored training in futures thinking to aid in the generation and execution of solutions, thereby supporting the entire innovation cycle.