Online Workshop 1: Empathic Insights

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Workshop 1 Recap

  • Innovation Culture Foundations
    • Established a culture of safety and belonging. 
    • Played some team building exercises to get used to the online collaboration environment.
  • Reviewed empathy map by Dr. Ruel Ellis from UWI. 
    • It can be found HERE.
  • Onboarded participants onto MURAL: our primary collaboration tool.
  • Started the ideation process around the statement: how might we, create an empowering hub/pipeline/ecosystem that accelerates innovative projects/initiative in the Blue Economy sector of the CARICOM region?
  • Started developing relationships.
  • Laid the foundations for Workshop 2. 
Download Empathy Study Slides

Day 1 Replay

Day 2 Replay

Outcome:

  • Over 60 different ideas were generated. 
  • 7 concept poster boards were developed. 
  • We had over 80% retention rate throughout the workshop!
  • We had a lot of fun and met some great people. 
  • It provided clarity for what next steps need to be taken to achieve the desired outcomes of the initiative. 

About the initiative:

International organizations, donor agencies, business support organizations, non-governmental and governmental organizations along with commercial entities, startups, nonprofits who are looking to collaborate, grow and benefit from the Blue Economy in the CARICOM region.

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 Enable all projects related to the Blue Economy to: 
1) Become investment or grant ready,
2) Get training on leveraging IP & innovation tools,
3) Get access to key resources, business model development, partners, 
4) Join a community of inspiring leaders who are serious about establishing the Blue Economy, 
5) Creatively collaborate with projects in other industries.

By the end of the initiative we will have a self-sustaining and culturally relevant innovation hub co-designed by practitioners actively working in the CARICOM region to achieve the desired outcomes as stated above.

  1. Blue Economy community is fragmented.
  2. Finding the right people and organizations to collaborate with. 
  3. Uncovering the right cultural and societal structure to make the hub accessible and self sustaining.

We will be using design thinking methodologies of empathy, ideation, consolidation, testing and prototyping to develop the societal and cultural structure for the hub while cultivating a culture of innovation and connecting the community to the endless possibilities the region has to offer.

Join Us On The Journey

Let us know if you have any questions.