We’ll continue to bring you updates on the DIY tools and their impact, as well as sharing wider news and views about Nesta’s international development work, and profiling innovators doing exciting work at the frontiers of the field.
Since Nesta launched the DIY Toolkit three years ago, it has been used by thousands of development practitioners to invent and adapt new ideas to improve their work. Alongside this, Nesta’s wider work on innovation and international development has expanded, including partnerships with UNDP, IFRC, MSF and the Institute of Development Studies, a new series of development-focused challenge prizes, and the launch of DIY Learn - our online learning programme in innovation.
We therefore felt it was the right moment to widen the scope of our DIY updates. We’ll continue to bring you updates on the DIY tools and their impact, as well as sharing wider news and views about Nesta’s international development work, and profiling innovators doing exciting work at the frontiers of the field.
We hope that you enjoy, please share the update with colleagues and get in touch to let us know what you think of the new format!
Each update, we'll be profiling an innovator working on the edge of development - the development 'mutants'. Here we talk to the innovation professional who coined the term, Giulio Quaggiotto, about the effect they're having on traditional development players.
UNDP Asia-Pacific’s Ramya Gopalan and Haoliang Xu reflect on the achievements and lessons learned after three years of working on bringing innovation practice into the development world.
Here we share a selection of thought-provoking content on innovation and development from around the world that has come across our radar recently:
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