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Scenario Narratives SMART SCRAMBLE

HEADLINES IN SMART SCRAMBLE

National Medical Labs in
Southeast Asia Herald Chinese Government Maker Faire Ghana Partners
New Diagnostics for Pressured as Protests Famine Haunts with ‘Idol’ Franchise to
Native Diseases Spread to 250 Cities Ethiopia—Again Spotlight Young Innovators
(2013) (2017) (2022) (2027)

2010 2015 2020 2025 2030

Low-Cost Water 'Returnee' Innovators VC Spending
Purification Device Halves Struggle to Expand Sales Within Sub-Saharan
Diarrhea Deaths in India Beyond Home Markets Africa Triples
(2015) (2020) (2025)

ROLE OF PHILANTHROPY IN SMART SCRAMBLE

Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development to identify and build capacity from the individual through the institutional, because
Philanthropic organizations look to fund at the grassroots level, in order to reach people
more quickly and solve short-term problems. The meta-goal in this world is to scale up:

without global coordination, innovation cannot scale on its own. Philanthropy requires
a keen screening capacity to identify highly localized solutions, with specialized
pockets of expertise that make partnerships more challenging and transitions between
sectors and issues harder to achieve.

Philanthropy operations are decentralized; headquarters are less important, and
the ability to quickly access different parts of the world and reconfigure teams on
short notice is key. Office space is rented by the day or week, not the month or year,
because more people are in the field — testing, evaluating, and reporting on myriad
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pilot projects.