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Experiment overview
At the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, I led a workshop rooted in Futuro, my original foresight methodology designed to make future-oriented solutions more accessible through a card-based toolkit.
This approach enabled participants to engage deeply with future oriented thinking and community-centered problem solving, unlocking bold, regenerative ideas grounded in local realities.
Main objectives
The workshop goal was to equip participants with a methodology for developing technological solutions to community-based problems, focusing on empowering them to identify local challenges, analyze desirable outcome through a technological lens, and create regenerative systemic solutions.
Achieved results
The participants shattered expectations by generating sophisticated, locally relevant solutions that demonstrated deep understanding of their communities challenges.
Rather than offering predictable answers, they proposed ideas like genetically engineered trees which while being burn produce mosquito-repelling smoke for malaria prevention – solutions that highlighted both their innovative thinking and their grasp of pressing local issues.
Main reflection
This workshop experience crystallized a powerful truth: when problems are well understood and grounded in local context, technology becomes an incredibly potent tool for change.
Moving beyond conventional applications like food delivery apps, the participants demonstrated that innovation knows no geographical or economic boundaries.