A Grassroots Innovation Minga with Medicinal Plant Producers in Ecuador

The Grassroots Innovation Minga, coordinated by UNDP Ecuador Accelerator Lab, is a process of co-creation and testing of solutions to respond to challenges faced by medicinal plant producers from the May 1st Platform Market and students from the Technology Training School. The intervention culturally adapted Design Thinking Methodology to a popular context. Three thematic challenges were tackled: harnessing medicinal plants, ancestral knowledge preservation, and climate change. The Minga required deep immersion to prototype and test solutions with accessible technologies in a constant exercise of collective intelligence. Our slogan is “No solution without those concerned.”
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Minga de Innovación Comunitaria con las hierbateras de la Plataforma Primero de Mayo:
Te contamos sobre la Minga de Innovación que los Laboratorios de Aceleración del Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo de Ecuador (PNUD) realizó con las hierbateras de la Plataforma 1ero de Mayo, estudiantes de la ESFOT de la EPN, mediadores comunitarios de la Fundación de los Museos. Ellos formaron parte de la iniciativa de Innovación comunitaria, a partir de la inteligencia colectiva: ninguna solución, sin lxs concernidxs.