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OpenIDEO Collaboratories
At OpenIDEO Collaboratories we: 1 come together socialise & collaborate on OpenIDEO concepts 2 dev skills & knowledge to be more effective social innovators & entrepreneurs 3 dev collaborative partnerships 4 collectively address issues that matt
Leave balloons where social innovation is lacking in you're city + Meet-up
How many amazing ideas & concepts get thrown away or feel like they don't get enough attention? Be it after they are published on this platform, or when you are walking down the street and see something that you really want to change, but you never
Personal Updates on Individual's Profile Page
If there could be one section on individuals profile page which saves all the updates relating to each and every post made by the individual in its account.
OpenIDEO Hack Day - Prototyping ideas into reality
I'm hugely inspired by hackdays, where developers and designers get together to realise great ideas. Could we run OpenIDEO Hack Days as part of a challenge to refine ideas and test out how they might work in the real world?
QR Code branding for concepts to always link back to the original OpenIDEO concept
As ideas get realised in the real world, turning into new businesses and products, there should always be a way to link them back to the original teams that created them. What about a QR Code brand that is automatically created for each concept and c
Community-Endorsed Challenges
The title is pretty self-explanatory. What if we opened the possibility for OpenIDEATORS to submit their own challenges?
OpenIDEO should get the ball rolling on solving social issues through more ways than just Challenges.
More vectors for launching a project
OpenIDEO should get the ball rolling on solving social issues through more ways than just Challenges.
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OPEN IDEO : GREEN Drop Box
WHY NOT Grab all used Cardboard boxes, Thrown or used Pencils or Pens and Make instillations to collect 1000s of idea from all those People waiting in Ques at various places.
OpenIDEO / IDEO Fellowship/Internship
Let's face it, many of us would relish at the thought of working for any IDEO endeavour. What great motivation to contribute with meaningful and innovative work than to have a shot at working at OpenIDEO or IDEO for a certain time frame?
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Collaborant: Big Problems tackled with Small Solutions
In order to get people participating and helping, actions required of them should be either meaningful and rewarding to them, or low-threshold and easy to do. Or ideally, both. Let's create an online platform (working title: Collaborant) where people
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Real world meets OpenIDEO
Let's help 'challenges' happening all over the world, whether they are charities, non profits, individuals, students etc use inspiration and concepts from OpenIDEO to solve their challenges and share information.
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TURNING DIGITAL INTO PHYSICAL!
Funding realisation opportunities
This is a common concept co-created by Sina Mossayeb and I. Imagine if OpenIDEO worked with its community to take winning concepts and realize them by fundraising some of the community's favorite concepts. There are models of crowd fundraising, where
OpenIDEO Design Challenge Card
An accordion-format laminated card for instant participation in a OpenIDEO Design Challenge
OpenIDEO: An Annual Anthology
Publish annual anthology (print and/or virtual) of winning concepts and the process behind them. Includes introductory chapter exampling the different steps. Would be visual and edited with annotation. The point of this is to share the ideas and real
OpenResources: Empowering the Community to Share More
To ADD a Resource section to the website where people who may want to participate and share ideas more clearly and visually by providing them with resources to express inspirations and concepts.
Open Innovator: A Toolkit for In-Person Collaboration
The magic of OpenIDEO is not in the technology, it's in the creative and collaborative system that is founded on fundamental principles that make up its DNA. The OpenIDEO system can be shared offline via a Toolkit to help groups innovate and work tog
BookmarkMe
Being part of an online community is even stronger if we know when others are online. BookmarkMe allows you to book mark OpenIDEATORS that you might want to ask a question, bounce an idea off or collaborate with. When you log on, you can see if they
Equities R US - The openIDEO High School Way
I would like to entice a live Anthropology exercise for the subjects (students in this case) and the feeders (openIDEATORS and respective communities). “The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for l
Bite-Size Actions for Individuals
No matter how big a goal, issue or project, individuals want simple, fast ways to help out. For every challenge, concepts could include a build of bite-sized actions for individuals to take on.
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OpenIDEO Virtual "Hangout"
OpenIDEO integrated chat/webmeeting interface where you can meet with OpenIDEOers live and work together on the Challenges.