Our key concept is to develop an enjoyable, safe, easy and sustainable tool to generate income. We note value of the local people as well as employment and industry development, and aim to develop the tools to generate income in order to achieve development based on their fun and happiness and to acquire basic infrastructures by them. Thus, we focus coconuts which exist abundantly in Timor-Leste. We develop a tool kit to make original and tasty coconuts juice based wine called “wanic”, and offer this toolkit to entrepreneurs. They make wanic and sell it to the wealthy people at hotels or restaurants. In addition, we aim to make our products using only local materials and local technologies to manufacture the tool kit. This enables the generation of surrounding businesses. We emphasize the variety of ways that this product can be beneficial: (1) a new usage for coconuts, (2) a new locally made alcohol beverage, and mostly (3) new opportunities. However we hope that the value of it should be specified based on the dialogues with the local people instead our intrusive propose of the value.

Empowerment Tool, 2010 –

Taketoshi Ando: FInancial Planning
Syuko Ikemura: Graphic Design
Yurie Endo: Product Planning
Yoshio Kusumi: Product Design
Godai Sahara: Strategic Planning
Satoru Tokuhisa: Product Management
Naotoshi Morizumi: Account Management
Naoaki Yamamoto: Concept Design

Award

See-D Busines Contest, Best Award
22 May, 2011.

Magazine

Satoru Tokuhisa and Takuji Tokiwa.
A Design Method for BOP Users: Products for Social Innovation.
User Experience Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 2, May, 2011.

Satoru Tokuhisa.
Social Innovation in Timor-Leste.
Mita-hyoron, No.1146, p.51, June, 2011.

Exhibition

Taketoshi Ando, Yurie Endo, Yoshio Kusumi, Godai Sahara, Satoru Tokuhisa, Nootoshi Morizumi, Naoaki Yamamoto.
Wanic kit.
See-D Contest Final Conference, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, 23 October, 2010

Taketoshi Ando, Yurie Endo, Yoshio Kusumi, Godai Sahara, Satoru Tokuhisa, Nootoshi Morizumi, Naoaki Yamamoto and Shan Riku.
Wanic kit.
Bases 150k Challenge Product Showcase, Stanford University, US, 18 May, 2011

Taketoshi Ando, Yurie Endo, Yoshio Kusumi, Godai Sahara, Satoru Tokuhisa, Nootoshi Morizumi, Naoaki Yamamoto.
Wanic kit.
See-D Innovation Challenge Final Presentaion, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, 22 May, 2011