Surprise Us
What have we missed? Use this Mission to help us explore examples and stories that don't fit into one of the previous Missions.
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Lego Serious Play Kit
Lego Serious Play Kits are customized for building metaphors, creative story making and applying imagination.


Designated Mind-mapper for future OpenIDEO Challenges!
Mindmapping has proven to be extremely helpful throughout different phases of OpenIDEO Challenges. It has been instrumental in helping moving inspiration and concept phases further along. What if we make this as a permanent feature of each challenge?


Make the question well known
If the question to the subject is well known, the answers can be great


Ethnography is Central
Ethnography or deep empathy earned by participant observation is central to design.


TEDx Spread Buenos Aires - the word of mouth power
An innovative way to spread TEDx Ideas using the most remarkable city speakers - taxi drivers. How can we spread OPENIDEO contents to a larger number of people? In 2011, hairdressers will be the target!


Brainstorm in a Box: A Great Model for In-Person Group Work
OpenIDEO's brainstorming in a box could be adapted for schools and orgs as a way for teachers/faciliators to encourage social impact -- it's fun, easy, and by localizing it, people can see the realization stage in their local community.


Town Hall - Regional OpenIDEOs
Every person, community, and nation is faced with unique problems. OpenIDEO could use its ideology in a "Town Hall" context to serve as a forum for thinking of creative solutions to regional or national problems.


Idea ScreenCast
What makes innovation happen is the ability to transform dreams, into ideas. But when you need to make this happen you need a really good feedback in realtime, so the use of videos and live meetings its fundamental to accomplish this.


Lego Cuusoo Crowdsources Design
“Cuusoo” is japanese for “wish”. Lego Cuusoo crowdsources design concepts from fans all over the world


Online networks vs. 'real world' meet ups
One if the best examples of social networking websites, which combines online and off-line networking is www.asmallworld.net. It is an 'invites only' network but some of features like 'geo-locator' and 'city guide' could easily be transferred


Cutting the Cost of Hosting Challenges
Can we make it easier for low-resource nonprofits to host challenges for social good?


make the "winners" well known
and help them to be known by the right places - and openideo too ;-)


A song telling the essence of what we experience here for me.
Rhythm, music, lyrics empower. I believe we need more of that. This song says it all for social business to me, and after 1 year we all just want to be "going on"!


A vision of what could be
I still get chills watching this video, Pranav Mistry's Sixth-Sense and Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision. What a vision for global education.


IDEO Design Thinking Simulation
ExperiencePoint developed Design Thinker in collaboration with IDEO. During the half-day workshop, competing teams use the terms, techniques and thought patterns of design thinking to solve a realistic and complex challenge.


Did you know?
This presentation was shown at a Sony BMG Music Entertainment meeting in Rome.


Spend time sustainably on OPENideo.
I don't know about you guys, and maybe it is a 'personal management thing, though 'time for good' is a difficult to handle 'in between' for me. How can we 'grow sustainably' timewise at OPENideo? Can a concept grow beyond the initial competition?


" I CAN " & then " WE CAN "
A TED TALK session with Kiran Bir Sethi, where she made everyone realize that real learning is embeded in the real world context. How " I CAN " bug makes a big impact in designing solution to diverse range of social problems around.


Using visual representations of information for improved ideation
Several inspirations have explored visual representations. What other representations can we think of?


a (also) social picture in numbers
I think this online database has been a quiet revolution. It helps us understand our history through numbers. It is very often with surprised that we realise how the rest of us live and i think that for some, social impact will start here.


OpenIDEO Merit Patches
How about an OpenIDEO merit patch? It will bond the OpenIDEO community and start conversations.