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March 2013

Foresight Engine Game Analysis:

25 Zones of Future Innovation

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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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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