Human-Centred Innovation through Design Thinking for Addressing Cyber Threats, Educational Problems, and Poverty Challenges: An Empirical Study

cybersecurity, design thinking, educational innovation, poverty alleviation, sustainable development

In an increasingly complex and inter-connected world, organizations and societies face multifaceted challenges such as cyber threats, educational inequalities, and persistent poverty. Traditional problem-solving approaches often fail to address human dimensions of these issues, creating a need for innovative and user-centred solutions. This study examines the role of design thinking as a human-centred innovative approach in addressing cybersecurity challenges, improving educational outcomes, and alleviating poverty. Design thinking emphasises empathy, problem definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing, enabling stakeholders to develop solutions that are both innovative and responsive to needs of the users. The findings reveal that empathy-driven problem identification, collaborative ideation, rapid prototyping and continuous user feedback significantly contribute to the development of effective and sustainable solution. 347 participants were surveyed for the study. The factors studying how Human-Centred Innovation Through Design Thinking for Addressing Cyber Threats, Educational Problems, and Poverty Challenges are Empathy-driven understanding, Problem identification and Definition, Prototyping and Experimentation and Collaborative Participation.