My own challenge

Challenge & Selection   Storytelling is a tool that I use all the time during my public speaking events and presentation. I am  an entrepreneur exploring new ideas and innovation processes. I work with local government  institutions to provide solutions to digitize various daily work processes. Many of the employees  working at the municipalities lack resources and training and consequently suffer from demotivation  and exclusion despite the great efforts they deploy each day to serve citizens. I spent more than 15  years looking how develop new solutions to enhance their daily tasks, some succeeded and some  were a complete fiasco. When I was working with the employees especially during ICT training  sessions they were very keen to share their stories with technology.

Application   I have a story about using storytelling. In raising awareness among decision makers to focus on an  important component which is human resources well-being in order to better serve citizens. This  story is that of the city of fez that embarked 10 years ago in ICT4D project that ended up being a  prize winner both at the country level and at the global level. The city in addition to providing the  adequate infrastructure and trainings empowered its employees and included them in the decision  making process, this gave the project, in which I was a project manager, great success and better  impact in both employees and local population. Which served as pilot that started to be replicated  since then in many other municipalities in the country.

Insight & Approach   The mayor of the city reached the “waw” point only few months after giving a promotion to the  employees working in department he targeting to digitize and the change of working habits changed  smoothly. This story helped in the scale up of the pilot I it was the subject of all awareness campaign  I was conducting with decision makers both at central and local levels. I did not know about the  storytelling principle  effect but I realized while pursuing this course that indeed it was one the best  think I have done so far and am enthusiastic to experiment the visualization, mind mapping and  learning launch.


My own challenge Challenge & Selection Storytelling is a tool that I use all the time during my public speaking events and presentation . I am an entrepreneur exploring new ideas and innovation processes . I work with local government institutions to provide solutions to digitize various daily work processes . Many of the employees working at the municipalities lack resources and training and consequently suffer from demotivation and exclusion despite the great efforts they deploy each day to serve citizens . I spent more than 15 years looking how develop new solutions to enhance their daily tasks , some succeeded and some were a complete fiasco . When I was working with the employees especially during ICT training sessions they were very keen to share their stories with technology . Application I have a story about using storytelling . In raising awareness among decision makers to focus on an important component which is human resources well - being in order to better serve citizens . This story is that of the city of fez that embarked 10 years ago in ICT4D project that ended up being a prize winner both at the country level and at the global level . The city in addition to providing the adequate infrastructure and trainings empowered its employees and included them in the decision making process , this gave the project , in which I was a project manager , great success and better impact in both employees and local population . Which served as pilot that started to be replicated since then in many other municipalities in the country . Insight & Approach The mayor of the city reached the “ waw ” point only few months after giving a promotion to the employees working in department he targeting to digitize and the change of working habits changed smoothly . This story helped in the scale up of the pilot I it was the subject of all awareness campaign I was conducting with decision makers both at central and local levels . I did not know about the storytelling principle effect but I realized while pursuing this course that indeed it was one the best think I have done so far and am enthusiastic to experiment the visualization , mind mapping and learning launch .