YoungInnovations Weekly #113 — Design Thinking workshop at Udhyami Seed Camp, Workshop on the Role of Open Contracting Partnership, Training session on Data Collection of Children at Risk
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
― Why The Lucky Stiff
Time passes quickly at YoungInnovations. Today’s the end of yet another week. Here’s what happened.
Design Thinking workshop at Udhyami Seed Camp
On Friday, 3rd November, Anjan Shrestha (anjhero) and Rakesh Pradhan conducted a Design Thinking workshop for the 2nd batch of Udhyami Seed Camp. During the workshop, Anjan took the participants through the five stages of Design Thinking process followed by different activities to help them understand the concept behind the steps. The workshop aimed to help the teams be able to solve the problems using the user centric approach of design thinking process. To learn more about Udhyami Seed Camp, please visit their website here.
Workshop on the Role of Open Contracting Partnership
A workshop on The Role of Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) in the development and promotion of Open Contracting in Nepal was conducted at YoungInnovations on 7th November. Veronica Cretu and Nicolae Cretu of the Open Government Institute facilitated the workshop. The workshop saw civil society, government officials, IT practitioners talk about the existing progress and opportunities on open contracting initiatives in Nepal.
Training session on Data Collection of Children at Risk
Prashant Shrestha attended a training session on data collection of Children at Risk at three wards in three municipalities of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Kritipur on 9th November. The pilot project is being implemented by these municipalities with technical assistance from CWIN. YoungInnovations has been providing technological support. The pilot project aims to collect important data on Children who are at risk at these wards, so that appropriate programs can be developed in the future.
That is all guys. Have a great weekend! Create!
