Seed workshop: Building a digital ecosystem for societal empowerment

Abstract

Traditional approaches to Social, Economic and Environmental Development (SEED) have historically employed a closed, top-down model in which problems are viewed narrowly and the input of local stakeholders is rarely sought. More recent efforts to address development from a holistic, multidisciplinary perspective-while a major step in the right direction-have been hindered by a lack of appropriate tools and well-defined processes to enable disparate resources to work effectively together towards common goals.