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Cheers for all your stellar efforts in generating such awesome concepts to increase social impact! Our Impact Challenge winning concepts have been announced – head over and check them out.
Featured Concept
Community Innovators Awards
What about an awards program that highlights the work already being done throughout the world, within Social Business, Community Development, Health, Open Technologies, etc? Raising awareness and potentially connecting a whole heap of people who might otherwise have never connected. Submitted by: Ben Morgan
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 m...
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David Hood
August 24, 2011
10:58PM |
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 nev...
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Ana Cecilia Santos
August 24, 2011
10:44PM |
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.
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Ankita Dewan
August 24, 2011
10:11PM |
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?
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Haiyan Zhang
August 24, 2011
08:45PM |
Inspiring Aspiring Social Entrepreneurs
Our generation is passionate about contributing to make our world better. And, at least from my experience, there are many who have the drive to start new projects & programs, once they find an idea worth pursuing, worth believing in.
By promot...
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Vincent Cheng
August 16, 2011
10:25AM |
OPEN IDEO On Spot DOoddle !!!
How About the First day of Conceptualizing, an Idea Strikes you, and "YOU" Passionately pick up a colorful crayon from the right corner and Start Doodling or Mind Mapping on the Screen i.e on the OPEN IDEO website itself, and on the very second ...
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Ankita Dewan
August 23, 2011
05:45PM |
POP-UP OpenIdeo Local Galleries
A series of co-ordinated POP-UP Galleries (temporary structures/shacks) that pop up throughout a certain period across the world in different cities and focus on the same challenge.
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Sabina D'Silva
August 17, 2011
10:00AM |
Design concepts for a positive bottom line
Having Open Source concepts as a result of challenges, for anyone to use to create positive social impact, is great. But apart from doers having to be able to find this wonderful repository we created the past year, we should also make it easy for...
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Arjan Tupan
August 22, 2011
12:15PM |
OpenIDEATOR "Facebook"
Create an easy way to identify and "follow" OpenIDEATORs.
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anjelika deogirikar
August 14, 2011
06:29PM |
OpenIDEO Buddy
Do you remember how it was like when you first join the community? Would you like to help a new OpenIdeator to orient, navigate and contribute to the community? Be an OpenIDEO Buddy!
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Chloe Tseung
August 15, 2011
08:22PM |
HappyHour TimeBank-Making A difference One hour at a time
A global-local time bank made easy and intuitive for people to login and share skills on an hourly basis in their locality at their convenience.
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Sabina D'Silva
August 18, 2011
05:30AM |
A PENNY'S THOUGHT ON THE TUBE!!
So Deepthi's great Idea about waiting in Airports sparked off a thought on 'waiting, traveling, spare time put to good use' Then I thought TUBES!
'On an average day in 2007, 23.8 million trips were made in, to or from London.' (Transport for ...
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Tanya Wigley
August 22, 2011
11:21PM |
Make the DQ work better for new users
Shift it's focus from long term to short term participation
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Daniel Nacamuli
August 15, 2011
10:21AM |
Community Realization
Why not have one or more winning concepts be turned into reality by the openIDEO community?
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Russell Jelinek
August 11, 2011
09:53PM |
Openideo Cafe
Next sunday afternoon is "workshop day" at Openideo CoffeeShop, 15h00 20/08/2011
@ Lisbon, Portugal.
Local Challenge: "Social awerness in downtown"
Global Chalange: "How might we increase social impact with OpenIDEO over the next year?
Join...
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Nuno Leite
August 17, 2011
10:06AM |
Renewable creative energy
Ideas might be valuable beyond the scope of a specific challenge.
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Fabio Turel
August 16, 2011
02:10PM |
Learning Journeys with OpenIDEO
An exploratory journey meeting different experts and succesful cases in a particular subject area studies. Travel, listen, learn, ideate, realise
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Sabina D'Silva
August 19, 2011
11:06AM |
Celebrity advocate to mobilize the crowd
In the same way as most charities or non-profilts have a high profile advocate Open IDEO could do the same.
It would be started by the person evangelising about a particular success story, and then followed-up by asking people to help 'make it ...
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Mike Hatrick
August 18, 2011
09:49AM |
Encourage newcomers with Design Quotient "Tiers"
The OpenIDEO Design Quotient could be structured that contributors achieve 'tiers', rather than simply a large total.
These tiers could be at an overall DQ level or against each of the DQ facets
e.g. somebody could be "Tier ...
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Mike Hatrick
August 22, 2011
03:15PM |
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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Luis E. Flores G.
August 24, 2011
05:34PM |
