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The Humanitarian Innovation Jam brings together humanitarians, academics, and the private sector to discuss and problem-solve around humanitarian innovation. The 2016 edition will have a special focus on convening refugee and host community innovators who want to develop the best possible solutions to some of their community’s biggest challenges. This is a conference with little talk, but lots of action. If you’re a local innovator, addressing issues facing your community, expect to walk away with practical tools and resources.
At the end of this event we hope to answer these key questions:
How can we, as local innovators increase impact?
How can humanitarian organizations build up the creative capacity of communities, and empower them to innovate for themselves?
As more and more humanitarians talk about ‘innovation’, we must make sure that innovation driven by affected communities stays front and center in this conversation. Empowering crisis-affected communities to identify challenges and create their own solutions (rather than relying only on top-down innovation approaches) provides a wider range of sustainable solutions to current and future humanitarian challenges.
Focused on bottom-up innovation, Humanitarian Innovation Jam 2016 hopes to:
Identify barriers to local innovation, and needs of local innovators;
Analyze good practices and tools to support innovators in crisis-affected communities;
Rethink approaches to humanitarian innovation and understand how institutions can facilitate bottom-up innovation.
Track 1 (Individual Innovators)
Track 2 (Organizational Innovators)
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Watch the trailer video: What is Bottom-up innovation?
This opening session examine some of the barriers to local innovation as well as the critical elements of an ecosystem that supports local innovators.
The Humanitarian Innovation Jam brings together humanitarians, academics, and the private sector to discuss and problem-solve around humanitarian innovation. The 2016 edition have a special focus on convening local innovators who want to develop the best possible solutions to some of their community’s biggest challenges. This is a conference with little talk, but lots of action.
Innovator Talk & Q+A: Local innovators share experiences followed by an audience Q+A
Workshop: Rapid prototyping innovations for local communities; Moving through the Innovation Cycle. In this workshop, we learn about rapid prototyping and moving through the various stages of the innovation cycle to meet community-defined challenges.
Creative Capacity Building is a methodology that engages refugee and host community members in designing and creating innovative technologies to solve their own problems. This hands-on workshop will provide an introduction to the design process and will teach participants practical skills for making their own useful technologies. The workshop will close by showcasing examples of innovations created by refugees and host community members in humanitarian settings.
In many ways, creativity is at its best when there are clear and strict boundaries. In this afternoon panel discussion we discuss how we can make the most from resourceful with limited resources to create something new and meaningful. The panel will discuss case studies, past experiences and ways forward for innovators.
The Humanitarian Innovation Jam brings together humanitarians, academics, and the private sector to discuss and problem-solve around humanitarian innovation. The 2016 edition have a special focus on convening local innovators who want to develop the best possible solutions to some of their community’s biggest challenges. This is a conference with little talk, but lots of action.
Creative Capacity Building is a methodology that engages refugee and host community members in designing and creating innovative technologies to solve their own problems. This hands-on workshop will provide an introduction to the design process and will teach participants practical skills for making their own useful technologies. The workshop will close by showcasing examples of innovations created by refugees and host community members in humanitarian settings.
In this first part of the workshop we introduce the process of working with data to achieve people-oriented and empathy-driven decisions.
University of Oxford’s Humanitarian Innovation Project launched this report last year. The report focuses on examples and case studies of ‘bottom-up innovation’ among different refugee populations.
In this Resilient Africa Network Lab ‘MKIT’, innovation expert, Banny Banerjee leads a 6-part series on scaled innovation.
This SciDevNet slideshow and article written by Imogen Mathers showcases refugee tech innovators in Uganda.