The COVID-19 pandemic has added new meaning to the cliché, “changed the world forever”. Governments, giant corporations, small businesses, and families have restructured to meet the challenges of a killer disease which has caused more than 125,000 deaths worldwide.

Trinidadian Dr Lesley Ann Noel, whose mother is Jamaican, is professor of practice at The Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, specialising in the field of design thinking. She believes this method can be utilised by Caribbean governments preparing for the aftermath of COVID-19.

“Education is an area in which design thinking can be used in the region. For example, a community could design an after-school programme that addresses a local problem, and then a government agency could support the implementation,” she told the Business Observer.

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