- A five-day process design thinking methodology developed at GV Design Sprint was held online from this July 6^th to 10^th.

-This will provide opportunities for local university students to discover IT based startup items and to run it in actual practices.

-IT based technology business education for startup capacity building.

(Picture 1) Design Sprint Camp Team's Activity during the time it was hosted by Handong Global University

Handong Global University (President Soon-Heung Chang) held an online Design Sprint Camp for Nepal Pokhara University students and those from other affiliated universities.

Supervised under Professor Sung-Bae Cho, director of Startup Support Team, this camp is one of the programs of the Nepal Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship Center (NITEC).

The camp was conducted on the online meeting platform ZOOM as offline communication is limited due to the COVID-19. The camp will serve as an effective entrepreneurship education for local university students of developing countries who are interested in IT based technology startups and will foster startup capacity of local citizens and improve local community development.

Through the five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers, participants were provided startup funds as they had to pick the best competitive item so that they can carry out the SW development.

Moreover, students had an opportunity to monitor their targeted audience based on their prototype business items and they can decide if they would like to run it in to an actual business. Through this, the failure rate of young entrepreneurs is expected to decrease.

Participants from Nepal local universities will have team activities in regard to business strategies and IT based solutions for various local problems. Students with the best performance, will be supported as they develop their prototype and launch their IT based business item into actual practice.

Software Hub University Program of Handong Global University has been hosting a five-day process for answering critical business questions ‘Design Sprint’ developed at GV every vacation to provide entrepreneurship training for Handong students. Design Sprint Camp program has emerged as a good solution for entrepreneurship training as it has been widely used domestically and globally.  Particularly, this camp is expected to serve as an effective example of ODA projects which meets the needs of local citizens from developing countries during the global Covid-19 pandemic.

The host of this camp, NITEC is part of a program initiated by South Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and it intends to educate local citizens and to foster the appropriate technology based manufacturing industry and spread local business models to other communities in order to raise their economic self-sufficiency.

Meanwhile, the host, Green Appropriate Technology Research Cooperation Center of Handong Global University has been carrying out projects for developing countries such as the GEP, the Global Engineering Project; the Global Engagement & Mobilization Project, GEM;, the Engineering Design Academy for 90% of the Marginalized; the Creative Design Competition for 90% of the Marginalized; the UNESCO UNITWIN Program; and the Nepal Innovative Technology Entrepreneurship Center. These programs have been on-going since 2008.

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