Girish's #ChangeTheNow Passport
ParticipantI want to be a Changemaker because...
it gives me an opportunity to be a part of something that creates a change or does good to the society and to the people around us.
My Changemaker Pathway
I am a Policy Maker
I want to work with multiple groups of people to design, develop and model new policies that promote social change.
My UN Sustainable Development Goal
As part of #ChangeTheNow, I’m working on solving UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
My Passport Stamps
Recent Activity
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Girish Sekar posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-18 17:51:36 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_prototype_test_reflection_54
🤔 Reflection question
How might the prototype & test stage help you with overcoming a fear of failure or challenging your assumptions about what is ‘right’?
Girish's Answer
Prototyping is the key part of the design thinking process and also offers quick and low-risk inputs from the users. The prototype is an early sample or model of a product built to test a concept or process.
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Girish Sekar posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-08 21:30:03 -0700 _complete_your_hcdt_stage_ideate_reflection_54
🤔 Reflection question
How might ideation help you develop your active listening skills to brainstorm and reflect on ideas effectively with your team?
Girish's Answer
It creates new team dynamics. Ideation techniques are designed to help you push boundaries and think out of the box. Analogous thinking, coming up with the worst possible solution for something, challenging long-standing assumptions and reverse thinking are all strategies that help you think in new innovative ways.
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Girish Sekar posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-01 19:23:20 -0700 _complete_your_hcdt_stage_define_reflection_54
🤔 Reflection question
How might you explain the value of you having a systems-thinking mindset when attempting to define and understand a complex problem?
Girish's Answer
A mindset more than a prescribed practice, systems thinking provides an understanding of how individuals can work together in different types of teams and through that understanding, create the best possible processes to accomplish just about anything.
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Girish Sekar posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-07-19 10:26:14 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_empathize_reflection_54
🤔 Reflection question
After learning about how to empathize with the people affected by your SDG’s social issue, how you might apply empathy to working with the members on your CTN Innovation Team?
Girish's Answer
To empathize is to understand or relate to someone else emotional experience. A person with this quality always tries to deeply understand what they are feeling or what it's like to be in their situation.
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Girish Sekar posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-06-20 19:27:59 -0700 create_your_team_canvas_54
🤔 Reflection question
What did you personally learn about the process of creating your team canvass?
Girish's Answer
As a team, working together on the business canvas was very interesting and we had the opportunity to understand and learn about the purpose of the project we will be working on, coordinating as a team towards the goals that needs achieved, understanding the roles and responsibilities of each team member's contribution towards the project.
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Girish Sekar posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-06-14 14:24:04 -0700 complete_your_mobius_strip_reflection_54
🤔 Reflection question
After completing the Mobius Strip exercise, what do you feel are next steps towards contributing to the community you care about?
Girish's Answer
I would personally say that, through this mobius strip activity, I was able to identify my own strengths and the values that I need to focus on. I was also able to identify the social issues and the challenges that the communities and societies going through. Based on this activity I found out that most youths are facing joblessness and an increased rate of unemployment in the society. According to me, these are some of the major issues that majority of the countries are facing right now. It will be really great, if we can find a proper solution and understand the problems faced by the young generation and provide a solution for them would create a great way for the future generations too.
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Girish Sekar signed up for Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022 2022-05-30 14:06:24 -0700 inclusive_design_and_mobility_challenge_sdg_11
About #ChangeTheNow
The #ChangeTheNow is a community of global Changemakers, working together to innovate on the positive change we need to see in our communities for 2030 and beyond!