Hacking for Diplomacy

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

Hacking for Diplomacy (H4Di) challenges students to tackle emerging foreign policy issues through mission-driven entrepreneurship. In H4Di, students select from a set of carefully curated, complex, real-world problems to solve, sponsored by the US Department of State. Students form teams and learn to apply Lean Innovation frameworks and tools to identify key stakeholders, understand their needs, and develop and test early-stage solutions. Using a "flipped-classroom" approach, the teams brief the teaching team on their progress each week and receive direct coaching from their instructors, mentors, and subject matter experts from across the US Department of State and entrepreneurship ecosystems.