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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.
By adding a section called RESOURCES (see image for conceptual mock-up and features) which includes provision of (1) visuals and (2) information, the community and would-be participants may feel more empowered to express ideas more visually and perhaps with more substantive information in addressing challenges. 

Features would include:

1. Visuals: icons and photos, templates (powerpoint), links to sites with free visuals and services, and ability to share their own creations or links
2. Information: the challenge brief, a "library" where people add information on the specific challenges, external links to popular and substantive data sites, and ability to add to the library

What kind of social impact does this concept achieve?

This concept aims at empowering Open IDEO community members with some visual and informational resources to help produce and effectively share ideas to concepts that have social impact. More than just pictures, visual explanations and even crude prototypes help others see the vision of the contributor.

What skills are required to take this concept forward?

1. Collecting Website URLs for sites that provide free pictures, illustrations, and services
2. Collecting Website URLs for popular data bases and information sites (e.g., UNESCO, etc.)
3. Web development skills (to add the sections)
4. The Sketch Pad (as others have discussed/shared) would require either licensing from third party or creating)
5. Volunteers to help populate the links pages and "library"

How do you envision this concept being supported financially?

1. Cost is primarily in setting up the Resource page with tabs and links, in addition to the coding to allow image display and search.
2. Sketch Pad could be a feature that members can pay for collectively (i.e., donations) or via subscription

Virtual Team:

Sarah, Avi, Arjan, Kirk

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Does this concept increase social impact?

Absolutely! This idea will drive social change
It’s a good start – some impact is likely to be achieved
No – increasing impact is not the main focus of this idea
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Does this idea inspire *you* to take action?

Sure does – I’m itching to get started turning this idea into impact
Possibly – I’d need to know more to make a decision about how to get involved
No thanks – it’s an interesting idea, but it would be best taken forward by someone else
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Does this concept help the OpenIDEO community connect and collaborate together?

Yes – it does a brilliant job of enhancing our community connections and might even reach out to external partners
Maybe – it may drive increased collaboration but the concept would need to be further developed first
No – it doesn’t help our community connect or collaborate better
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How easy would it be to try prototyping or experimenting with this idea?

Easy – I could have an early prototype running in a few hours
There’s potential but it would take some planning and coordination to make it work
Not really easy – this idea would take considerable resources and planning to get it off the ground
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Does this concept clearly outline how it will be funded?

Yes, this idea clearly explains funding sources
Sort of – we’d probably still need to think more about how this idea would get funded
No, this idea doesn’t really explain where funding for implementation would come from
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Paul Reader

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November 29, 2011, 09:40AM
Hi Sina,
What's the state of play with realising this concept?

I have a couple of resources to offer:

1. A working prototype to provide a few of the other concepts from this challenge - geolocator, gather (events manager) and IDEATOR endorsed nascent challenges - its located at http://www.experiment.vacau.com ; and

2.CMap Tools from http://cmap.ihmc.us which is a Concept Mapping tool - OpenIDEO could host a server for ideator generated CMaps.
I have used it to synthesize a concept map of the relationships between some of the concepts in the current Amnesty challenge and stored it in the public cmaps repositories - its viewable at
http://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1K1S4SRW0-1SJ351Q-W8P/Amnesty.cmap

Regards

Paul
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Meena Kadri

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September 08, 2011, 11:57PM
I'm aware this idea has been keeping you awake for a while now – so am real pleased it's getting some well deserved attention, winner!
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Sina Mossayeb

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September 09, 2011, 12:05AM
Thanks Meena. Would it be useful if I fleshed out some mock-ups of what I think such a section would function (to speak to Haiyan's comments below).
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Meena Kadri

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September 09, 2011, 10:11AM
Sure would – though I think those comments are above just now. Hard to keep up and I'm all upside down here in the Southern hemisphere already. Sounds like H is going to be in touch direct so you can mock yourself out with her! As things take shape we'll be keen to update the community via the upcoming Realisation phase.
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Haiyan Zhang

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August 31, 2011, 12:58AM
Hi Sina, Have you seen Ankita's doodle concept?
http://www.openideo.com/open/impact/concepting/open-ideo-on-spot-dooddle-/

Would be great to incorporate her thinking into the Sketch Pad feature.

Also, the Aviary tool we're looking at offers the ability to have 'stickers', which could be community contributed artwork like mobile phones, people, locations, touchpoints.
http://www.aviary.com/

Not sure if there are other sketch pad tools out there which might suit!

By the way, one question I have is where do you see this resource page might be accessed from? When we originally designed the challenge pages on OpenIDEO, we only created sections for each phase under the challenge and there wasn't a navigation structure to accomodate more sub-sections. Do you have any thoughts on how we could make the resource page easily accessible?

Cheers!
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Paul Reader

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September 03, 2011, 12:04PM
When I suggested a resource link in my response to Mike Hatrick's concept for a link back to OpenIDEO from the IDEO HCD download page I envisaged that being at the "master page" level navigation beside User Forums. While there might be an occasional need to have multiple resource links open most of us would probably use them singly in conjunction with the OpenIDEO page on which we are working at the time. Yahoo Messenger has an app associated with the text chat component that allows two (and possibly more) chatters to share a canvas. It's called Scribbler and although limited can be used to share doodling, each user can print the result and it allows importing items from Flicker.
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Sina Mossayeb

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September 09, 2011, 12:06AM
Thanks for the great notes. Haiyan, do you think if I did some more mock-ups that might be helpful in showing some rough ideas I had? I would love to keep working on this, and may take Sarah's form and do a Google Docs to start just compiling some ideas of sources, etc.
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Haiyan Zhang

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September 09, 2011, 12:25AM
Hi Sina, prototypes would be great!

Our big challenge right now is creating a navigation for the challenge to allow it to have more 'sections'.

It's also good to consider the difference between 'resources' and 'inspriations'.. whether users would be confused over where to post their findings.

Would be happy to chat about this next week if you're around!

PS - I've been speaking with our developers with regards to integrating the Aviary app and one idea is to create a 'sticker library', where users can just drop in their artwork for use by others.. and this would be automatically made available in the doodle app.
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Sina Mossayeb

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September 09, 2011, 01:53AM
Haiyan, why do you guys have the coolest job in the world *sigh* ... I think that's AWESOME. I'd love to chat more about this and some of your stellar team's thinking. I like features like the ones found in Pinterest and more "sticker" like stuff like the ones used by Canvas.
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Haiyan Zhang

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September 09, 2011, 09:25AM
Sina, haha. You're very kind.

I'll send you an email next week. Hope I'm not intruding on your vacation.

I'm off to Italy this weekend for my grad school reunion! Talk soon!
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anjelika deogirikar

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September 05, 2011, 04:23PM
I like this idea to promote more visuals / sketches to the concepts. For OpenIDEATORS in professions where they might not be used to making sketches, this might help guide them to illustrate their concepts and ideas.
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Paul Reader

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September 05, 2011, 06:05PM
I would encourage anyone to explore the possibilities of their installed office packages (or if they have none to download something like OpenOffice) It can be fun to produce diagrams to illustrate and accompany text. Most documents created this way can now be exported as pdf making them almost universally readable.
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Sarah Fathallah

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August 24, 2011, 03:15PM
An example of this type of resources could be the visuals Kirk shared for the Maternal Health challenge: http://openideo.zendesk.com/entries/475907-images-maternal-health-mobile-technology-challenge

I had the same idea for a while and I think it would be a great addition to OpenIDEO. I am not sure what's the best way to present it in the platform, whether it should be a specific resources page, or a meta concepting page specific to each challenge or something like that, but it's definitely missing as of now.

Other features that I'm thinking of (other than visuals and relevant data):
- Interview guides (for example if you want to get out an interview your local grocery owner...)
- Webcast notes (like the one for the Grameen challenge)
- An evolving mindmap (this would have to be specific to each challenge).

I'm also wondering whether the "participatory" part should be some sort of a wiki-like section (with an additional moderation step maybe?).
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September 03, 2011, 12:22PM
I guess each of us has an idea of the type or resources that would be useful. As an advocate of Open Source I envisaged links to a range of tools like FreeMind mindmapping, Inkscape for Vector Images or Gimp but since all these need to be installed to use they would probably of limited use in the context.
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Adriana Olmos

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September 02, 2011, 09:34PM
I agree with Anne-Laure Fayard that resources for visuals might be helpful and could to present or express better the ideas.

Inspired by this and other posts.... I like the idea also to have the IDEO resources handy: like the link to the iPhone IDEO method cards, the HCD toolkit by IDEO, new tools developed by the members like the one suggested by Avid Solomon... Or even from other people outside of the community, curated by IDEO....

Amazing that OpenIDEO is thinking of adding as well a sketch pad, super cool! :-)
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Mike Hatrick

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August 30, 2011, 02:51PM
I like this idea.

It's another form of Crowdsourcing in that the community could provide the content to help the community take action.

It would need to be managed and moderated to make it effective and efficient.
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Anne-Laure Fayard

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August 30, 2011, 10:35AM
Just wanted to add after looking at the openIDEO card concept and its visuals, that yes resources for visuals can be helpful and will allow some members to present better their idea. I guess my point was more: let's have both. :-)
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Anne-Laure Fayard

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August 30, 2011, 10:32AM
Hi,

while I see how the visuals can help some people, I personally think that having people also going through the attempt of explaining their concept through writing leads them to be more specific in some ways, also thinking in terms of scenarios. I guess my points is "best of both worlds" is great and also way to adjust different types of thinking. I think that the second aspect of it: information for the challenge brief would be very useful as it allows people to develop a better understanding of the context.
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Paul Reader

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August 29, 2011, 05:32AM
Sina - I applauded this after the close so I have no idea if my applause will be counted. Having only joined the site 48 hours ago I began enthusiastically adding comments. I now realise my time might have been better spent initially reviewing all the concepts, applauding those I regarded as most worthwhile and then adding comments subsequently.
Having said all that - I think this is a great idea - and proposed one element of it in my comments on David's concept for links back to OpenIDEO frome the IDEO HCD Toolkit page. As a passionate supporter of Open Source alternatives to purely commercial software can I suggest that an interim measure for the sketchpad might be links to standalone applications for the various platforms in use (OpenOffice Draw springs to mind). This would take the concept forward and useable until an integrated sketchpad could be developed and commisioned.
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Avi Solomon

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August 26, 2011, 02:42AM
Showme would make a great sketchpad but it's only for the ipad: http://www.showme.com/
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Ashley Jablow

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August 25, 2011, 11:54PM
Loving the idea that this could lead to increased community sharing, especially around visuals and templates that people could reuse and remix!
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Ankita Dewan

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August 24, 2011, 02:21PM
Hey Sina,
I Liked the way you have Presented. It is looking more interactive and interesting to use.
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Patricio M. Hidalgo

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August 24, 2011, 11:02AM
Hi Sina,
This functional tool is way cool and sets the reader's mind free from what they only see ;-)
As you stated: "More than just pictures, visual explanations and even crude prototypes help others see the vision of the contributor." I like your User Interface Design
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