Online Collective Intelligence Workshop for COVID-19 Response

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INTRO

UNDP Libya Accelerator Lab organized an online collective intelligence workshop (using Zoom for communication and Mural for collaboration) that aims to the following: 1.        Explore ideas 2.        Map out solutions 3.        Map out the local knowledge 4.        Identify activities done Libya and what needed to combat the COVID-19. The overall goal of the workshop is to identify the problems and possible solutions gathered by the Libyan experts. Afterwards, the findings are to collaborate with CO senior management to anticipate the emerging needs, shape the demand from the partners and support the CO to develop a pipeline of emerging projects responding to the COVID-19 epidemic in the country.

SDGs

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Methodolgies

Design Thinking

Countries

Libya

Funded

No

Start Date

05/09/2020

End Date

05/09/2020

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MULTIMEDIA

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MORE INFO

For more information, please contact Accelerator Lab Libya (lab.libya@undp.org)

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Quotes

“We believe that now ... it's time for the Arab nations to rise again through science and innovation."

Tamer Taha, Founder of Yomken

Human-centered design is a philosophy, not a precise set of methods, but one that assumes that innovation should start by getting close to users and observing their activities.

Donald A. Norman, Co, Founder of Nielsen Norman Group

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you’re trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing – building empathy for the people that you’re entrusted to help.

David Kelley, Founder of IDEO

We spend a lot time designing the bridge, but not enough time thinking about the people who are crossing it.

Dr. Prabhjot Singh, Director of Systems Design at the Earth Institute

It’s not ‘us versus them’ or even ‘us on behalf of them.’ For a design thinker it has to be ‘us with them'.

Tim Brown, CEO and President of IDEO

The agenda specifically recognizes youth as “critical agents of change”. To ensure the success of the 2030 Agenda, we need all young people on board - all of you, young activists, innovators, disruptors and trailblazers.

Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors

Failure is an option here. if things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.

Peter Diamandis, Executive Chairman of the X Prize Foundation

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Linus Pauling, American Chemist

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we make progress.

Richard Feynman, Noble Prize Winning Physicist