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Disability and Inclusion Challenge: Winning Ideas Announced!
The Amplify team is thrilled to announce the Amplify Disability and Inclusion Challenge winners! After reviewing more than 450 submissions over the course of the past three months, we have selected six winning ideas that we believe will help to create more inclusive communities globally.
Five Tips for Rapid Refinement: From Fall Prevention Ideators
Read how our ideators stayed focused on prototyping, iteration and insight-driven design in our Fall Prevention Challenge.
Bringing Fall Prevention Ideas to Life: A Design Sprint with Challenge Sponsors
In the Fall Prevention Challenge, the OpenIDEO team put on a workshop with our Challenge sponsors – AARP Services Inc. and UnitedHealthcare, a feedback session with our Advisory Panel, and a four-day design sprint in Nashville, Tennessee, that helped us gather insights. ASI and UHC selected nine ideas from the Challenge to prototype and test with caregivers and ideas for prototyping were selected based on their fit with the Evaluation Criteria
Join the OpenIDEO Team Challenge Honorable Mention List
Recognition needs to be given when it's due, we've chosen 20 candidates who have stand out due to their effort, community evaluation results and/or excellence in design during the Join the OpenIDEO Team Challenge.
Anatomy of a Challenge Idea
We’re so excited that we’re just two weeks into the Ideas phase and together we’ve already shared over 100 ideas aimed at addressing emergent needs intersecting peace, prosperity, and planet! We want you to keep them coming and thought we’d share with you some of the things we are looking for. In the spirit of human centered design, we want to show, not tell – so we’ve created this sample idea:
BridgeBuilder: What Makes a Strong Idea
As we brainstorm new solutions for our first BridgeBuilder Challenge, the team reflected on some of our Funded Ideas from past global development focused Challenges and found some of the features that made them such great ideas. Here are few pointers from some of the concepts that made it to the end of the challenge.
Financial Longevity Challenge: Announcing Our Top Ideas
We're impressed with the quality of all the ideas and the rich conversations that came into the Financial Longevity Challenge. Now we're excited to recognize Five Top Ideas. Join us in celebrating these inspiring solutions!
Sponsor Spotlight: Georgia Tech
Over the course of the Future of Higher Ed Challenge, we've been featuring Q&As with our Challenge Sponsors, the organizations and individuals who have partnered with us in building this Challenge, and will play a significant role in supporting top ideas moving forward. This week, let’s get to know Georgia Tech, one of our 4 awesome Challenge sponsors.
Celebrating Youth Empowerment Challenge Ideas
Last week, we were excited to announce the Top Ideas in our Youth Empowerment Challenge. This week, we’d like to take a moment to celebrate an additional handful of stellar ideas.
Youth Empowerment Challenge: Winning Ideas Announced!
The Amplify Team is excited to announce our Top Ideas from the Youth Empowerment Challenge focused on East Africa. Over 550 ideas were submitted on the platform, engaging the community in a critical conversation. We are deeply inspired by the enthusiastic response from individuals, communities, and organizations around the world.
Challenge Sponsor Spotlight: Level Education from Northeastern
Over the course of the Future of Higher Ed Challenge, we'll be featuring Q&As with our Challenge Sponsors, the organizations and individuals who have partnered with us in building this Challenge, and will play a significant role in supporting top ideas moving forward. This week, let’s learn more about Level, one of our 4 Challenge sponsors.
Challenge Sponsor Spotlight: US Department of Education
Over the course of the Future of Higher Ed Challenge, we'll be featuring Q&As with our Challenge Sponsors, the organizations and individuals who have partnered with us in building this Challenge, and will play a significant role in supporting top ideas moving forward. This week, let’s get to know the US Department of Education, one of our Challenge partners.
Challenge Sponsor Spotlight: USA Funds
Over the course of the Future of Higher Ed Challenge, we'll be featuring Q&As with our Challenge Sponsors, the organizations and individuals who have partnered with us in building this Challenge, and will play a significant role in supporting top ideas moving forward. This week, let’s get to know USA Funds, one of our 4 Challenge sponsors.
OpenIDEO Announces our First Ever Badging and Credentialing Program!
To celebrate our most active and collaborative participants, we're excited to introduce our first ever badging and credentialing system, within the Future of Higher Ed Challenge.
Announcing our Community Cross-Pollinators for the Higher Ed Challenge!
We’re excited to introduce you to Lucy Chen and Andrea Zelenak, our Community Cross-Pollinators for the Higher Ed Challenge.
Announcing our Community Champions for the Financial Longevity Challenge!
We’re excited to introduce you to Nicole Lopez-Conti, our Financial Inclusion Outreach Ambassador and Jaskeerat Bedi, our Community Cross-Pollinator, for the Financial Longevity Challenge.
Announcing our Community Prototypers for the Food Waste Challenge
We’re excited to introduce you to SL, Maria, Hardik and Iris — our Community Prototypers for the Refinement phase of the Food Waste Challenge.