Zenia Tata, executive director of global development at the XPRIZE Foundation, stood in a room of top experts, industry leaders, and social entrepreneurs in water, malnutrition, waste, urban renewal, solar energy storage, and Internet connectivity.
They were gathered for a process XPRIZE calls “visioneering.”
“I am asking them to think like they were in a science fiction movie, to think what the world might look like and why this issue with water might just be something you read in the history books,” she said. “It goes from dreaming to making dreams reality. Then the ideas start coming out. And once those ideas start coming out, now you’re talking in XPRIZE terms.”
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Catherine Cheney is the Senior Editor for Special Coverage at Devex. She leads the editorial vision of Devex’s news events and editorial coverage of key moments on the global development calendar. Catherine joined Devex as a reporter, focusing on technology and innovation in making progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to joining Devex, Catherine earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University, and worked as a web producer for POLITICO, a reporter for World Politics Review, and special projects editor at NationSwell. She has reported domestically and internationally for outlets including The Atlantic and the Washington Post. Catherine also works for the Solutions Journalism Network, a non profit organization that supports journalists and news organizations to report on responses to problems.
