Beyond the Buzzword: Making Co-Creation Real in Climate Services

Sometimes, a word becomes so common in our field that it starts to lose its meaning. Citizen science, deep learning, co-creation. These terms get repeated so often that they risk becoming little more than crowd-pleasing buzzwords. But in developing digital tools for smallholder farmers facing the increasing pressures of climate change, we believe co-creation is not optional – it is essential.

Mónica and Lorenzo were present in Northern Ghana, tot test and refine the Uliza-WI chatbot during field workshops with smallholder farmers. They have visited several communities and introduced the digital chatbot, helped them access it on their phones, listened to their feedback and observed how they perceived and interacted with the tool. It gave us a lot of valuable feedback.

Read about what we learned, and what’s next.