What is prototyping anyway?

Let’s start with what it isn’t.

A pilot. Pilots have historically been the default method used in the humanitarian sector when moving towards new approaches to solving problems.

7 essential resources for a design thinker

I’m not the average person who would be interested in purchasing the newest edition of the Harvard Business Review but walking around the airport in September, the newest addition caught my eye. The title of the September 2015 issue was The Evolution of…

How the SDGs change the role of humanitarian innovation

In the fanfare surrounding the release of the Sustainable Development Goals it may be easy to miss a shift in thinking that can have a dramatic impact on the role of Humanitarian innovators. Our job as advocates and practitioners of…

7 challenges. 439 ideas. 3 updates from our crowdsourcing platform.

Have you ever heard of the concept “the wisdom of the crowd”? It’s the idea that the collective opinion of a group of individuals is better than the opinion of one. Unfortunately, the decisions or ideas of one…

11 New Year’s resolutions for humanitarian innovation

2015 was a hard year to digest. Now every 1 in 122 humans is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum.

But a new year represents the opportunity to set goals and visions of what we hope 2016…