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Recent blog entries

May 17th 2012
Currents 66
May 13th 2012
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Stefan Ritter
May 9th 2012
Currents 65
May 1st 2012
Announcing our Web Start-up Challenge Shortlist
Apr 25th 2012
Currents 63
Apr 24th 2012
Grant Funding to Improve Election Accessibility
Apr 18th 2012
Currents 62
Apr 16th 2012
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Cansu Akarsu
Apr 12th 2012
Currents 61
Apr 10th 2012
Amnesty Challenge Concepts Continue to Evolve
Apr 4th 2012
Currents 60
Apr 2nd 2012
A Collaborative Journey + U
Mar 28th 2012
Currents 59
Mar 28th 2012
Announcing Voting Challenge Winning Concepts
Mar 26th 2012
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Louise Wilson
Mar 23rd 2012
Web Start-up Challenge: Q&A with European Commission
Mar 21st 2012
Currents 58
Mar 15th 2012
Announcing our Voting Challenge Shortlist
Mar 14th 2012
Currents 57
Mar 11th 2012
Refinement Phase: The Lowdown
Mar 7th 2012
Currents 56
Mar 1st 2012
Voting Challenge: Using Themes for Concepting
Feb 29th 2012
Currents 55
Feb 28th 2012
Voting Challenge: Personas for Concepts
Feb 28th 2012
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Mike McDearmon
Feb 22nd 2012
Currents 54
Feb 14th 2012
Currents 53
Feb 14th 2012
Announcing IDEO's Make-a-thon
Feb 8th 2012
Voting Challenge: Q&A with ITIF
Jan 25th 2012
Currents 52
Jan 19th 2012
Currents 51
Jan 18th 2012
Announcing our Vibrant Cities Winning Concepts
Jan 16th 2012
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Jason George
Jan 10th 2012
Currents 50
Jan 4th 2012
Announcing our Vibrant Cities Challenge Top 20
Jan 3rd 2012
Currents 48
Dec 20th 2011
Currents 47
Dec 20th 2011
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Midori Kurokawa
Dec 14th 2011
Currents 46
Dec 12th 2011
Vibrant Cities Challenge: Q&A with Phillip Cooley
Dec 6th 2011
Currents 45
Dec 2nd 2011
Congratulations to the Amnesty Winning Concepts!
Nov 29th 2011
Currents 44
Nov 23rd 2011
Currents 43
Nov 16th 2011
Currents 42
Nov 15th 2011
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Charlotte Fliegner
Nov 11th 2011
Welcome to the Amnesty Refinement Phase
Nov 9th 2011
Currents 41
Nov 7th 2011
Inspiration Phase: The Low Down
Nov 7th 2011
Amnesty OpenSTORM: Tokyo
Nov 2nd 2011
Currents 40
Oct 31st 2011
A First Person Account of Unlawful Detention
Oct 26th 2011
Currents 39
Oct 19th 2011
Currents 38
Oct 18th 2011
Amnesty Challenge Tech Showcase
Oct 18th 2011
OpenIDEO Intern Insight: Anne Riechert
Oct 12th 2011
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Ashwin Gopi
Oct 12th 2011
Currents 37
Oct 10th 2011
Q&A with Amnesty International
Oct 6th 2011
Currents 36
Sep 28th 2011
Introducing our Amnesty International Challenge
Sep 15th 2011
OpenIDEO in the Classroom
Sep 12th 2011
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Luz Alba Gallo
Sep 7th 2011
Impact Challenge Winners Announced
Sep 7th 2011
Currents 35
Sep 1st 2011
All good things start with a prototype...
Aug 31st 2011
Currents 34
Aug 29th 2011
Evaluating the Impact Challenge
Aug 24th 2011
Currents 33
Aug 17th 2011
Currents 32
Aug 16th 2011
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Juan Cajiao
Aug 3rd 2011
Currents 31
Jul 26th 2011
Grameen Social Business Challenge: Winners Announced
Jul 26th 2011
Pathways to Impact
Jul 21st 2011
Currents 30
Jul 14th 2011
Social Business Challenge Top 20
Jul 11th 2011
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Sarah Fathallah
Jul 5th 2011
Currents 29
Jun 30th 2011
Currents 28
Jun 29th 2011
Designing in Low-Income Communities
Jun 28th 2011
OpenIDEO Celebrates Social Business Day
Jun 26th 2011
Live Event Alert! Grameen Webcast
Jun 22nd 2011
Currents 27
Jun 20th 2011
Q&A with Grameen Creative Lab
Jun 15th 2011
Inspiration Phase: Learning for Innovation
Jun 15th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 26
Jun 9th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 25
May 31st 2011
Congratulating Sony + Open Planet Ideas
May 26th 2011
Inspirational Interlude
May 25th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 24
May 20th 2011
Ideas Festival Chit-chat
May 18th 2011
Launching Realisation
May 17th 2011
Getting Ready to Roll at the Ideas Festival
May 12th 2011
Local Food Challenge: Top 20 Ideas
May 12th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 23
May 4th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 22
Apr 27th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 21
Apr 19th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 20
Apr 18th 2011
Bone Marrow Challenge: Winners Announced!
Apr 13th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 19
Apr 7th 2011
Evaluating the Bone Marrow Challenge
Apr 5th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 18
Mar 29th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 17
Mar 28th 2011
Community Champion Shares Clues on Connecting
Mar 25th 2011
Unveiling the 20 Finalists for our Maternal Health Challenge
Mar 24th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 16
Mar 21st 2011
Synthesizing the Bone Marrow Challenge
Mar 18th 2011
Open Planet Ideas - Development Day Thoughts
Mar 15th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 15
Mar 9th 2011
Q&A with Stanford's Katie Pfeiffer
Mar 8th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 14
Mar 2nd 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 13
Feb 23rd 2011
The Rules of Brainstorming
Feb 23rd 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 12
Feb 21st 2011
Synthesising the Maternal Health Challenge
Feb 16th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 11
Feb 11th 2011
Q&A with Oxfam's Ian Sullivan
Feb 9th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 10
Feb 2nd 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 9
Jan 26th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 8
Jan 19th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 7
Jan 12th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 6
Jan 5th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 5
Dec 29th 2010
OpenIDEO Currents 4
Dec 22nd 2010
OpenIDEO Currents 3
Dec 16th 2010
OpenIDEO Currents 2
Dec 13th 2010
Priorities and Sanitation
Dec 11th 2010
The Cost of Doing Business
Dec 8th 2010
OpenIDEO Currents 1
Nov 12th 2010
Out in the Open
Oct 16th 2010
GMC Reflections by Sally Madsen
Aug 9th 2010
1 Week of Learning...
Aug 2nd 2010
Welcome!

Jun 15th 2011
OpenIDEO Currents 26


Just when you thought you could relax those ideating muscles – we've got a brand new challenge to give your creativity a work-out! The Grameen Social Business Challenge asks How might we use social business to improve health in low-income communities? We're featuring Caldas in Colombia but, as always, are also interested in the global context. Swing by and check out the brief – then come over and wow us with your Inspirations! We've got 4 missions to get you activated – taking in social enterprise, the health landscape in low-income communities, life in South America – and case you've got any surprise moves, there's an opportunity to post those too! Remember that the Inspiration phase is about existing initiatives, examples & insight – you'll get the chance to exercise your Concepting dexterity shortly in the next phase.

Keeping in mind that things don't end when challenge winners are announced – check out our newly opened Realisation phase of the Maternal Health + Mobile Technology Challenge. We'll be updating you on the onwards journey of the challenge concepts out in the real world – and also welcome any impact stories that the challenge has inspired from our switched on community. And speaking of community stories – have you seen this little beauty from OpenIDEATOR Arjan Tupan from over on our User Forums?

It was a total honour to accept our Webby Award in New York this week for the Best Community Site on behalf of every one of you. In Webbys tradition we were asked to make a 5-word acceptance speech so put the call out via Facebook & Twitter to see what suggestions you might have. There were some real gems – and you can check out the video of our acceptance speech to reveal which concise communiqué we went with!

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