What is Design Public?
Design Public is a series of conversations about design and innovation in the public interest.This blog is curated by the Center for Knowledge Societies, the innovation consulting firm that guides the establishment of the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation.
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Tag Archives: innovation
EGRIC Dialogues: Participant Speak II
The READ Alliance launched EGRIC 2015 to discover, develop and scale early grade reading innovations for primary school children in India. As a part of this, Innovation Workshops were organised across four cities to raise awareness about EGRIC 2015 and … Continue reading
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Tagged early grade reading, EGRIC, innovation, Reading, workshop
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Co-Creating with the Government
For an ‘Innovation Lab’ to sustain, it is necessary for the Lab to function in an environment that welcomes innovation and shuns traditional thinking. The Bihar Innovation Lab has not only innovated for Public Health, but also carefully crafted an ecosystem … Continue reading
Early Grade Reading Innovation Challenge 2015 : Second Edition
After the success of EGRIC 2014, the READ Alliance has launched the second edition of Early Grade Reading Innovation Challenge (EGRIC 2015) which aims to discover, develop, and scale early grade reading innovations, with the goal of contributing to … Continue reading
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Tagged Early Reading, innovation, Innovation challenge, READ Alliance
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LIVE BLOG :Feedback and Collective High-level Reflections
This discussion would engage the panelists reflecting on prior breakout sessions and their outcomes for the day. Steering towards condensing critical conclusions, whilst looking forward to challenges ahead, funding prospects and prioritize objectives.
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Tagged Aditya Dev Sood, Bihar Innovation Lab, breakout session, CKS, designpublic, Health Public, healthcare, hpub, India, innovation, maternal healthcare, workshop
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Public Presentations from each Innovation Breakout
The Breakout session discussions at the Health Public conclave eventually filtered into constructive results as innovative conceptualizing sessions rolled out in form of presentations based off six major key challenges recognized. With valuable inputs from our imminent panelists, thought-driven initiatives on innovation … Continue reading
IWG 3: Knowledge sharing could be the way forward towards better healthcare
This session focused on discussing a need for enhancing an existing delivery system, by empowering Frontline Health workers(FHW’s). Facilitating an exchange of relevant ideas across cultures in respect to attitudinal resistance, whilst bringing to the fore collated findings from on-field research and gradually unfurling an emerging phenomena.
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Tagged Aditya Dev Sood, Bihar Innovation Lab, breakout session, CKS, designpublic, Health Public, healthcare, hpub, India, innovation, maternal healthcare, workshop
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Every minute is precious! (IWG 5 – Strengthening Service Delivery Infrastructure)
The Bihar Innovation Lab is an attempt at bridging the gradually increasing gaps in public healthcare. A joint alliance anchored by the State Government of Bihar, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Center for Knowledge Societies. This collaboration has fruitfully … Continue reading
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Tagged ASHA, Bihar Innovation Lab, Center for Knowledge Societies, health, healthcare, innovation, PHC, VHSND
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Towards a Civic Innovation Lab : an Outbrief from Design Public 5
A collection of panel discussions, keynote addresses, expert interviews, and contributed essays exploring the potential of open, mobile and social technologies in ensuring participatory, accountable, and effective governance. Drawing from the rich conversations at Design Public 5, open data solutions, … Continue reading
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Tagged #dp5, Center for Knowledge Societies, civic, CIVIL, CKS, design, design public, Design Public 5, innovation, lab, public
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Designing for Adoption and Scale
Last week, on the 7th and 8th of May, 2014, Ekta Ohri and I went to the Grameen Foundation’s Designing for Adoption and Scale conference. Hosted at The Leela in Mumbai, representatives from organisations in the finance for … Continue reading
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Tagged Center for Knowledge Societies, centered, centric, CKS, design, finance, human, innovation, micro, micro-finance, user
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Innovating for Reading: Ideas from the Innovation Workshop in Mumbai
Did you miss READ Alliance’s Mumbai workshop? Scroll down to see the ideas generated. These are quick ideas that participants generated when they were asked to develop solutions that could help improve the current Early Grade Reading Scenario in India. … Continue reading
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Tagged early grade reading, innovation, innovation workshop, read, READ Alliance, Reading, readinginnovation
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