The first Arab Social Innovation Camp

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INTRO

The Regional Hub in Amman, in collaboration with UNDP Egypt, has organised a Regional Social innovation camp focused on ‘Youth as Agents of Social Change’. The aim of social innovation camp was to further empower youth to become agents of social change by including them in the development process of the region. It is an effective tool for encouraging youth civic engagement and participation in their countries and the region as a whole. Moreover, social innovation camps can serve as a basis for the promotion of social entrepreneurship in the region, as solution prototypes coming out of the camp will be developed into marketable products or implemented through a national or regional UNDP project.

SDGs

Methodolgies

Innovation Camps

Countries

Regional, Egypt

Funded

Yes

Start Date

06/13/2015

End Date

06/15/2015

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MULTIMEDIA

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MORE INFO

First Social innovation camp for youths in the Arab region was held in Amman,Jordan on the 13th of June 2015 to 15th of June 2015 to discuss the challenges which are mentioned in the Arab Human Development report 2015 that face in the Arab region.

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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