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The fifth Lab of Tomorrow kicks off in partnership with German international development agency (GIZ) and Impact Hub Berlin. The focus is bringing together German health, engineering, and non-for-profit groups to innovate preventative, actionable solutions for chronic diseases in Kenya.

Design thinking underpins the collaborative process, wherein participants develop a shared understanding of the local challenge and collaborate with an interdisciplinary group of stakeholders (local users, social enterprise, corporate, political, and not-for-profit) to come up with viable social innovations. Co-creating new business opportunities through a design thinking process in Germany, developing a viable business model, and live-testing prototypes in the partner country enables participants to accelerate through the startup journey.

I was part of the concept development team which led to the successful partnership with GIZ and Impact Hub Berlin. In March 2017, I will be faciltiating the three-day design thinking workshop in Frankfurt. 

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