Elevate your Digital Literacy through knowledge and understanding of the Internet of Things and interactive application of Design Thinking

TICKETS

About this Event

Digital Literacy – Knowing, Understanding, and Using digital – is critical to growth, governance, and relevance in today’s age of exponential technological advancements. And, the Internet of Things (IoT) presents one of the largest and fundamental digital literacy challenges.

Workshop Description:

The Internet of Things (IoT) is here. It digitally interconnects physical things, humans and applications, and generates unprecedented lakes of data about us and the world we live in. Whether applied to wearables, connected transportation, industrial automation, drones, smart cities, precision agriculture, or other areas, IoT delivers great benefits along with new challenges. The many benefits, which include improved revenue and costs, increased efficiencies, better standard of living, and convenience, are confounded by challenges such as privacy, security, and social disruption. Knowing IoT and these paradoxical effects is a critical part of digital literacy.

Knowing IoT and its effects, however, is not enough. Design Thinking is the critical partner that adds the Understanding and the Using (application) parts to the literacy whole. To fully deliver on IoT benefits, tackle the challenges, and resolve the contention between them, organizations must first understand their end-users’ and stakeholders’ or citizens’ perspectives and needs – which is an important aspect of Design Thinking.

Design Thinking also tackles solution generation with ideation and prototyping through co-creation with end-users. Working IoT verticals and policy use cases through the Design Thinking lens delivers on the Understanding and Using aspects of digital literacy.

This powerful combination of understanding the IoT space and its technologies and how users will use them to solve challenges through design thinking is vital for attaining Digital Literacy. It’s the critical piece needed for developing better products, services, and policies with IoT.

Workshop Content

This workshop presents what you must know about the Internet of Things and shows you how to apply Design Thinking to innovate IoT solutions and policy.

IoT framework – what, why, why now

IoT architecture including devices, networks, and analytics

IoT application verticals

IoT technologies and disciplines, among them 5G, AI, cybersecurity, and others

IoT as an innovation driver

IoT benefits and challenges, including personal, business and societal

IoT and digital governance

Impact of IoT on government – in operation and public policy

Design Thinking /User-centered mindset and rationale

Design Thinking methodology

Design Thinking practice

The two days will be interactive with guided practical activities so that you’ll leave with hands-on experience in applying IoT with a Design Thinking lens.