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Human Centered Design at OutBox Hub with Dr. Debra Bishop of Drake University

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We just completed a session of some training on Human Centered Design. The event was held at OutBox Hub-a business incubation space, innovation center and co-working space. Outbox Hub was one of the first of its kind of spaces that was designed to help small business people or startups to get their businesses housed incubated.  Outbox hub has an interesting approach to innovation and incubation. They have great partnerships with many key players in Government, Non Governmental Organizations, Health Sector Players as well as Business. They use these partnerships to solve local challenges with technology. This means for example that they have competitions where students and developers can come up with solutions to health (governance, sector-wide challenges), problems that are developed over time, or over a weekend (hackathons).  They also present young business people with the chance to pitch their ideas to an audience of possible investors where they can progress and have their ideas de