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The era of development mutants?

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“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”

- Jack Welch

Welcome to Flatland

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Innovation to prevent decline

Innovation to sustain the old in new, remade formInnovation in new niches

Creating the new normal

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A development sector stress test

Source: ODI, Horizon 2025

Embracing mutants & hybrids

1. New design principles2. New interfaces3. New imagination

New design principles

• Mapping assets, not needs• Multiple parallel experiments

Where does project design start?

“By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men”

– G. K. Chesterton

The community mirror

The curse of linear planning

Multiple parallel experiments

1. New design principles2. New interfaces3. New imagination

• You don’t know where the “smart people” are • You don’t know how good these people are • Most of them will never want to work for

you because they find your organization:a) too boringb) too callousc) too unrewarding ord) too irrelevant (or a combination of all of the above!)

The non-contractibles

Source: Carliss Baldwin

A growing list

• Hackathons• Innovation Labs• Social innovation camps• Challenges• Pre-commercial procurement• FabLabs• GovJams• Timebanks

Big data collaboratoria

1. New design principles2. New interfaces3. New imagination

Investing in the [in]plausible

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The subtraction game

1. The meeting room 2. Needs assessment3. The Ideal State4. Capacity building5. The log frame6. The Project7. The donor8. National boundaries

1. New design principles2. New interfaces3. New imagination

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Let’s embrace the mutants


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