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March 2013
Foresight Engine Game Analysis:
25 Zones of Future Innovation
© 2013 Institute for the Future for Rockefeller Foundation. All rights reserved. SR-1563B
A project by Institute for the Future and The Rockefeller Foundationwww.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/catalysts-for-change/catalysts-zones-of-innovation
Contact: Tessa Finlev, tfinlev@iftf.org
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As the world becomes increasingly
connected, we’re discovering that
providing access to technology alone will
not create resilience and equitable growth
around the world.
These resources have to be localized and
contextualized. What’s more, they have to
enable local communities to build their own
digital tools for needs as diverse as micro-
learning, anti-corruption efforts, online group
procurement, community-led urban planning,
and much more.
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The importance of creating locally relevant technology in order to find new
paths out of poverty was highly debated by Catalysts for Change players.
Players pointed out the great opportunity to simultaneously spark local innovation,
entrepreneurship, and employment through local software creation. Ideas ranged
from new ways to bring illiterate users onto the Internet, to open source innovation
hubs focused on building regionally relevant web content and tools, to the potential
to link marginalized communities to the global economy through localized
technology solutions.
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Set up open source studios to facilitate local entrepreneurs and start-ups and teach new ICT skills like programming and graphic design*
Mozambique/Sweden**
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*Cards have been lightly edited for readability**Player location was self selected
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Mobile devices are ubiquitous, reaching the poorest areas. Empowering (young) people to create local digital content is a major opportunity.
South Africa
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Set up open source studios to facilitate local entrepreneurs and start-ups and teach new ICT skills like programming and graphic design
Mozambique/Sweden
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Develop robust, free translation tools that allow access to educational resources across language barriers.
USA
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Set up open source studios to facilitate local entrepreneurs and start-ups and teach new ICT skills like programming and graphic design
Mozambique/Sweden
Mobile devices are ubiquitous, reaching the poorest areas. Empowering (young) people to create local digital content is a major opportunity.
South Africa
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Create optimized internet kiosk that navigates links via spoken word when mouse hovers over written description, to enable illiterate users.
Canada
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Set up open source studios to facilitate local entrepreneurs and start-ups and teach new ICT skills like programming and graphic design
Mozambique/Sweden
Mobile devices are ubiquitous, reaching the poorest areas. Empowering (young) people to create local digital content is a major opportunity.
South Africa
Develop robust, free translation tools that allow access to educational resources across language barriers.
USA
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Low-cost central (e.g. a Raspberry-Pi) sends task to near solar/crank mobile lowcost devices, each spreading tasks to far ones like a virus.
Italy
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Set up open source studios to facilitate local entrepreneurs and start-ups and teach new ICT skills like programming and graphic design
Mozambique/Sweden
Mobile devices are ubiquitous, reaching the poorest areas. Empowering (young) people to create local digital content is a major opportunity.
South Africa
Develop robust, free translation tools that allow access to educational resources across language barriers.
USA
Create optimized internet kiosk that navigates links via spoken word when mouse hovers over written description, to enable illiterate users.
Canada
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Support education efforts in developing countries by creating a platform that gives teachers access to video lessons in their language.
USA
Set up open source studios to facilitate local entrepreneurs and start-ups and teach new ICT skills like programming and graphic design
Mozambique/Sweden
Mobile devices are ubiquitous, reaching the poorest areas. Empowering (young) people to create local digital content is a major opportunity.
South Africa
Develop robust, free translation tools that allow access to educational resources across language barriers.
USA
Create optimized internet kiosk that navigates links via spoken word when mouse hovers over written description, to enable illiterate users.
Canada
Low-cost central (e.g. a Raspberry-Pi) sends task to near solar/crank mobile lowcost devices, each spreading tasks to far ones like a virus.
Italy
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Digital content in local language(s), and sensitive to local culture and social realities (illiteracy). Avoid text - use multimedia.
South Africa
Set up open source studios to facilitate local entrepreneurs and start-ups and teach new ICT skills like programming and graphic design
Mozambique/Sweden
Mobile devices are ubiquitous, reaching the poorest areas. Empowering (young) people to create local digital content is a major opportunity.
South Africa
Develop robust, free translation tools that allow access to educational resources across language barriers.
USA
Create optimized internet kiosk that navigates links via spoken word when mouse hovers over written description, to enable illiterate users.
Canada
Low-cost central (e.g. a Raspberry-Pi) sends task to near solar/crank mobile lowcost devices, each spreading tasks to far ones like a virus.
Italy
Support education efforts in developing countries by creating a platform that gives teachers access to video lessons in their language.
USA
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Lifelines India offers educational Q&A in-context, and in local languages http://www.comminit.com/?q=ict-4-development/node/279545
USA
Set up open source studios to facilitate local entrepreneurs and start-ups and teach new ICT skills like programming and graphic design
Mozambique/Sweden
Mobile devices are ubiquitous, reaching the poorest areas. Empowering (young) people to create local digital content is a major opportunity.
South Africa
Develop robust, free translation tools that allow access to educational resources across language barriers.
USA
Create optimized internet kiosk that navigates links via spoken word when mouse hovers over written description, to enable illiterate users.
Canada
Low-cost central (e.g. a Raspberry-Pi) sends task to near solar/crank mobile lowcost devices, each spreading tasks to far ones like a virus.
Italy
Support education efforts in developing countries by creating a platform that gives teachers access to video lessons in their language.
USA
Digital content in local language(s), and sensitive to local culture and social realities (illiteracy). Avoid text - use multimedia.
South Africa
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10 | Self-Sourced Software | Micro-forecasts from the Game
Set up open source studios to facilitate local entrepreneurs and start-ups and teach new ICT skills like programming and graphic design
Mozambique/Sweden
Mobile devices are ubiquitous, reaching the poorest areas. Empowering (young) people to create local digital content is a major opportunity.
South Africa
Develop robust, free translation tools that allow access to educational resources across language barriers.
USA
Create optimized internet kiosk that navigates links via spoken word when mouse hovers over written description, to enable illiterate users.
Canada
Low-cost central (e.g. a Raspberry-Pi) sends task to near solar/crank mobile lowcost devices, each spreading tasks to far ones like a virus.
Italy
Support education efforts in developing countries by creating a platform that gives teachers access to video lessons in their language.
USA
Digital content in local language(s), and sensitive to local culture and social realities (illiteracy). Avoid text - use multimedia.
South Africa
Lifelines India offers educational Q&A in-context, and in local languages http://www.comminit.com/?q=ict-4-development/node/279545
USA
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Signals from the Present
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The Co-creation Hub in Lagos, Nigeria was founded by Nigerians who wanted to build software to address Nigerian social, economic, and political issues.
BudgIT
BudgIT, born from the Co-creation Hub, is a social start-up aiming to make the Nigerian budget more understandable for average Nigerians and build civic engagement along the way.
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Co-creation Hub
Image Source: www.yourbudgit.com
Image Source: Tessa Finlev, IFTF
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Reading Pens and Mobile Translators provide a powerful tool for people learning a new language. Although the price point is currently out of reach for most people, imagine the potential to aid illiterate or blind people in navigating the written word and the Internet.
Meedan
Meedan.net is a news website that allows the audience to translate stories from Arabic to English, and vice versa.
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Portable Scanning Translators
Image Source: www.meedan.netImage Source: www.wizcomtech.com
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March 2013
Foresight Engine Game Analysis:
25 Zones of Future Innovation
© 2013 Institute for the Future for Rockefeller Foundation. All rights reserved. SR-1563B
A project by Institute for the Future and The Rockefeller Foundationwww.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/catalysts-for-change/catalysts-zones-of-innovation
Contact: Tessa Finlev, tfinlev@iftf.org