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Team D22-017 Concept Note: What You Make Of It: Reconnecting Communities and Engineers
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Jonathan Truslove
Feb 15, 2022
Hi everyone, thanks for uploading your really interesting concept note. Please see some feedback below. What worked well: The concept provides a useful platform for engineers to crowdsolve ideas and develop/practice their skills in global responsibility in a context that is defined by the communities facing the challenges. The platform also provides a great opportunity for a network of engineers to learn from each other and collaborate. Even better it: You have framed well the contributions of engineers globally crowdsolving and collaborating to generate ideas and solutions in meeting a targeted challenge area relevant to a local community but what role will the community have in this outside sharing a challenge area? How will you communicate the value for communities to participate in this platform? I would suggest having a think about the value for engineers participating in the platform versus communities participating in the platform. You could target collaborative teams to include/focus on empowering and utilising the skills at the local context over a large international collaboration for every challenge. Have a think about how the community has an active role in co-creation from start to finish in the design process. Without community involvement throughout, there could be a risk that generated solutions not being appropriate to the context. Furthermore, post-creation how will the solution be implemented? Will the communities then need to facilitate and fund this themselves? And how will implementation be empowering at the local level? Overall, an interesting idea to enable and empower engineers to build their reputation and skills in global responsibility but some thought needed around where these (inclusive) benefits exist for the local level. Hope you find this feedback useful and good luck with the final submission. Jonathan
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