Our initial research focused on the digital divide in the context of Covid-19 and South Africa. Highlighting the overarching challenge within this project, the data included comparative studies, as well as desktop statistical and site specific ecological analysis. 

Community engagement activities were undertaken, broadening and diversifying engagement and cultivating co-operative relationships with locally attuned community members and potential stakeholders, with a particular focus on women, youths, and disabled persons.

Both a mindset and a framework that enables us to navigate uncertainty and create solutions that are meaningful, authentic, and appropriate to their context. Blending analytical thinking (rooted in reliable data) with intuitive thinking (rooted in gut instinct and abductive reasoning aimed at producing imagined futures).

A design process that draws from nature's genius and 3.8 billion years of R & D, where function and context are defined, natural models are discovered, and design principles abstracted. The biological mechanism, process or system is emulated, and the design measured against life’s principles. 

The prototyping and testing phase of the project aims to test the validity of emerging ideas against the needs and resources of both sides of the market.  Innovations that are selected as ideal candidates for high fidelity prototyping should be based on a consultative process with the target community.