Changing the user, not the technology
When building a tool to improve access to justice for women in Tanzania our biggest successes came from more than just improving the AI architecture.
Could designing for the "furthest first" close Tanzania's justice gap?
When a woman in Tanzania goes to the police, she will often be told that the problem she’s facing, whether it is around inheritance or gender-based violence, is a domestic issue. Therefore, it’s not something for them to intervene in. That response is legally wrong, but unless she knows that, it’s the last she’ll hear on the matter.
Could localised, distributed manufacturing techniques ever become commercially viable in a remote region like the Pacific?
Supply chains in the Pacific Islands have always been long and expensive, and COVID-19 exposed the region’s vulnerability to disruption and exacerbated existing supply-chain constraints. But what can distributed manufacturing offer this community?