On 09 June 2016, we organized a workshop to reflect together on the combination of technology and agriculture. Following this workshop, André Fortin gave a summary for those who were unable to be there. OUTCOMES OF THE THINKING DESIGN WORKSHOP How to bring technology and agriculture closer together André Fortin,...
Technology and Agriculture: An efficient solution for global challenges
On December 26, 2016, I spent 03 weeks in Cameroon - a country in Central Africa - to launch a project that our team set on carrying out more than 15 months ago.Thus, following several conferences and workshops that had been organized under the theme: The Positive Impact of Technology...
Open innovation and Living Lab explained by Patrick Dube
Since 2010, the SAT has been approved and is working on several project of social innovation living lab. The world is changing and becoming increasingly volatile, industries and lives sites have become difficult and the emergence of social media is growing. We are witnessing a society where everyone want to...
How to increase the impact of our ideas – Creativity
Eric Bourget gives some advice and tricks on how to increase the impact of ideas. During his intervention in the forum KWS, Eric Bourget wanted to answer to the question: how to make our idea grow up? Indeed today, the workshops on creativity and the practice of the brainstorming are common but...
Design-Thinking Workshop official recap
By Katrina Albert Day two of the Technology and Social Innovation week consisted of an insightful and complex workshop on Design Thinking. Hosted by the dynamic André Fortin, the workshop allowed participants from very diverging backgrounds to exchange on the importance of forming bridges between social innovation and digital technologies....
How design thinking affects technology?
During the last technology for good week, Kongossa Technology and two Design Thinking experts (André Fortin and Juliana Alvarez) collaborated to organize a design thinking workshop. The end goal of that session was to find solutions and new ideas on how technology experts and social entrepreneurs or social enterprises could...
Design Thinking workshop on : Leveraging Technology for social innovation
André Fortin, probably one of the best Expert in Design Thinking of Montréal, is going to host a workshop next september during the technology for good week on this topic : ” Leveraging technology for Social Innovation”. André Fortin is a psychologist and holds a master’s degree in communications-with a specialization...
How Design thinking transforms education and inspires innovation
Interview with André Fortin, a psychologist and an expert in Design Thinking. André held a design thinking workshop on efficient use of technology at the service of social innovation during the week of technology and social innovation. He has a master’s in communications with emphasis on social change. From 2007...