The document discusses how human-centered design, innovation labs, gamification, and foresighting can be used to gain new perspectives and develop solutions to challenges. It provides examples of projects in different countries that used these approaches to address issues like emergency services, public services, social issues, gender roles, and development issues. The overall message is that taking an innovative, collaborative approach that considers multiple viewpoints can lead to improved and more inclusive solutions.

1. Human Centred Design
Discover
New
Perspectives!
Human centred design
emphasises multiple perspectives
for driving and creating change.
Georgia: Developing prototypes for a new emergency
service for the hearing and speech impaired.
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undp.org/innovation #inno4devEmpowered lives.
Resilient nations.

2. What’s the Value
in Different Points
of View?
Discover New Perspectives!
Human Centred Design
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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3. Moldova:
Rethinking designs
for a community
police station.
Vietnam:
Understanding
ways to improve
public legal
literacy through
community
engagement.
Egypt: Providing a platform for citizens to share their
views and propose ideas on social justice.
Human Centred Design
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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4. Technology
Government
Service
Improvement
What Would You Use Human Centred
Design to Get Other Perspectives on?
Education Health
Leadership ?Leadership ?Leadership Future
Human Centred Design
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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5. Innovation Lab
Test It Out!
Innovation Labs facilitate multi-
stakeholder collaboration for
prototyping and developing user-
led solutions.
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
Swaziland: Youth Innovation Lab Conference
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6. Now test it!
Innovation Lab
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
Build a prototype
for diverse input,
faster feedback
and better results…
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7. fYR Macedonia:
Tackling social
issues and
accelerating new
solutions through
collaboration,
prototyping and
fast feedback.
Georgia:
Innovation lab for
designing and
prototyping public
services.
Haiti: Roving innovation lab to support unemployed
youth in turning their ideas into start-ups.
Innovation Lab
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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8. On what issue could
you use new ideas?
Technology
Government
Service
Improvement
Education Health
Leadership ?Leadership ?Leadership Future
Innovation Lab
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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9. Gamification
Let the
Games
Begin!
Games and play provide
opportunities for people to
understand complex issues in a
more accessible manner and to
break down barriers to
engagement and learning.
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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10. Invite Them to the Game!
Gamification
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
Who
Wants
to Play?
Young Entrepreneurs
Village Families
Small Business Owners
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11. Cyprus:
Developing digital
games and
gamified apps for
cultural dialogue
and conflict
management.
Nepal: Using
games to
question gender
stereotypes and
change attitudes
about gender
roles.
Egypt: Developing powerful games to explore and
identify solutions for complex social issues.
Gamification
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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12. What Would You
Use a Game For?
Technology
Government
Service
Improvement
Education Health
Leadership ?Leadership ?
Leadership Future
Gamification
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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13. Foresighting
Create a
common
vision!
Foresighting provides
opportunities to explore future
thinking and develop visions of
how the world could be.
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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14. Create a common vision!
Foresighting
WHAT ARE THE
possibilities?
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
Remote Diagnostics
Biometric Voting
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Smart Cities

15. Tonga: Adopting a
“thinking ahead”
approach to
addressing key
challenges and
building resilience.
Sudan:
Developing a
vision that ensures
greater ownership
and reflects a solid
theory of change.
Rwanda: Exploring alternative futures for complex and pressing
development issues, including urbanization and rural develpment.
Foresighting
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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16. Technology
Government
Service
Improvement
Education Health
Leadership ?Leadership ?Leadership Future
What keeps you up at night
when you think about the
future?
Foresighting
Empowered lives.
Resilient nations.
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