On Friday 7th September 2018, Make-IT in Africa and IBM hosted a Design Thinking Masterclass at the IBM Innovation Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.
The aim of the masterclass was to formulate the use cases for the Digital 4 Agriculture Weather Weekend which took place from the 21st tp the 23rd of September 2018.
Silas Macharia, IBM Innovation Centre Leader East Africa took the attendees through the first three stages of Design Thinking, Empathise, Define, Ideate. The attendants comprised of start-ups, some in the Make-IT accelerator program such as Annona and Taimba as well as some new additions such as Astral-Aerial and Tungana Tech.