Innovators

Alif Abdourahman

"For me, social innovation is the process of identifying and addressing social biases that negatively impact certain groups of people. These biases can manifest in various ways and affect individuals at all levels of society. As an advocate for social innovation, I believe that it's important to challenge and disprove common misunderstandings that perpetuate negative biases. In essence, social innovation is about working towards a more equitable, just, and inclusive society, where every individual has the opportunity to reach their full potential regardless of their background or ethnicity."

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Ayman Fadil

Alif Abdourahman

"Innovation is the art of coming up with fresh ideas to push growth, progress, and creativity forward. Innovation is the enthusiasm behind trying new things and taking calculated risks. The ability to adapt and be resourceful. To gain new perspectives. Incorporating all of that to create a positive impact is what innovation means to me personally."

Bella Torunski

Alif Abdourahman

BENAZIR TOM ERDIMI

"Innovation means taking existing concepts and reorganizing them differently within space and time. These concepts are being reorganized with an aim too uncover new questions/problems or help answer existing ones."

BENAZIR TOM ERDIMI

"An Innovator to me means being able to help create and create initiatives that represent myself and my community."

Bruce Ruzima

BENAZIR TOM ERDIMI

Celine Guirguis

" For me innovation means the ability to think creatively, ethically and more importantly sustainably in order to develop solutions that address some of the underlying social, political, and economic issues in our society. "

Celine Guirguis

BENAZIR TOM ERDIMI

Celine Guirguis

"I would say that innovation is when a team of motivated individuals come together and use their experiences and knowledge about different subjects to create something that will benefit society."

Dalton Mulindabigwi Sheja

"Innovation for me means to create a future. I say that if we are not satisfied with our present, let us go innovate!"

Developed: HealMind, Inspire the Next

Drayton Mulindabigwi Jabo

Dalton Mulindabigwi Sheja

"Innovation for me is knowing that you can turn nothing into something. And that the gap in between can be filled in a matter of seconds, or years. It's so cool!"

Piloted: HealMind, Inspire the Next

Developed: HealMind, Inspire the Next

Emmanuel Antonin

Dalton Mulindabigwi Sheja

Emmanuel Antonin

"To me innovation is to create positive and impactful changes that would enable the community to grow."

Hakan Khan

Kevine Ishimwe M

Emmanuel Antonin

"Innovation is an exponential loop of increasing knowledge, processes and technology. It allows us to prosper and have better lives, and ties directly into the lives of the future generations. Every bit of innovation comes from people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, and then prove the naysayers wrong by actually changing it."

Kevine Ishimwe M

"Innovation is not simply being aware or identifying issues in your community but taking action, adapting, and being resourceful while working together as a society to find solutions or change the view in which a problem was seen is innovation to me. Every extent of innovation pushes you and those in your surrounding to expand your horizons and alters how things can be accomplished within our society better while keeping a positive mindset on diverse elements that are part of our daily lives."

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Lydia Lister

Kevine Ishimwe M

"To me, innovation is to help transform an idea, however small, into an amazing reality. It's a truly profound feeling to be a part of a positive creation."

Developed: HealMind, Inspire the Next

Malika Yoh

Nefissa Bedri

"Innovation is coming up with new ideas and turning them into reality while addressing the issues we face as a society in a way that is human-centered."

Developed: HealMind, Inspire the Next

Nefissa Bedri

"Innovation to me represents the moulding of ideas into a beautiful abstract painting that fits into someone's life so beautifully. It is utilising the resources that a person has and creating something beneficial from a chaos of everything and nothing."

Nina Charley

Nefissa Bedri

SOPHIA HARRIES-JONES

"Innovation is like a shape-shifting object, the definition of it can change depending on what lens you look through. For me, it's new ideas. New ways to create change and bring awareness to issues. Innovation is an original thought every single day, something that you as an individual created yourself, bringing life to the possibility of a movement or even a small step in the right direction."

SOPHIA HARRIES-JONES

"Innovation is developing new or improving outdated systems that help facilitate personal, social, political, cultural or spiritual growth. The ability to identify a problem, navigate the various ways to solve it and use the solution that does the most good for the most people is innovation. Of course, to do so effectively and adequately, innovation must consider the lived experiences of others, access barriers, and intersectional identities such as class, gender, race, and geography. Consistently working to improve, decolonize, and unlearn harmful practices that have historically closed doors and excluded people will help create spaces which genuinely welcome everyone. Beyond the corporate definition of innovation, I maintain a more humanistic and compassionate understanding of innovation that aims to ensure equity for all people across all communities."

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Souleika Musse

SOPHIA HARRIES-JONES

Souleika Musse

"Innovation to me means to channel your strengths and passions towards something bigger than yourself. It means to be bold and think outside of the box, because all of tomorrow's greatest innovations will seem strange today."

Stephen Rioux

SOPHIA HARRIES-JONES

Souleika Musse

"Innovation to me is creating something new/original that will have an impact."

Victor Amisi

"To me, innovation means being able to change in order to improve things. In college, I study engineering, and the industry is always looking for ways to improve people's lives . For me, that's innovation! Finding a solution that will benefit everyone without taking anything away from anyone is the essence of innovation."