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The Challenge
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How might we increase social impact with OpenIDEO over the next year?
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Mission #1
Favorite Highlights
What are your favorite Inspirations, Concepts, Conversations or Moments on OpenIDEO over the last year? Share them and tell us why they are meaningful to you.
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Mission #2
Try It Out
Take a concept or issue from a past challenge and try implementing it in your local area. What worked? What didn't? Then share your story of real-life implementation with us.
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Mission #3
Exploring Impact
"Social impact" means different things to different people. Share your thoughts on what social impact looks like in your community, or interview friends, family and experts to get their opinion.
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Mission #4
Connections for Impact
To achieve social impact in our local area, we need support. Share your favorite examples of services, platforms or people that help connect us with the resources and information we need to realise our ideas.
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Mission #5
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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Inspiration
The Inspiration phase is where we all collect existing examples which relate to the challenge question. This exploration helps us learn more about the challenge and informs our upcoming ideas for the Concepting phase. We asked you to consider what’s happened on OpenIDEO over the last year as a way to help us determine where to head in from here, with a special focus on impact.
Featured Inspiration
Impact via Unlikely Intermediaries
An innovative way to spread TEDx Ideas using the most remarkable city speakers – taxi drivers. 50 invited drivers spread the word to 7000 people who heard about TED ideas in only one week. How can we spread OpenIDEO contents to a larger number of people? Submitted by: Antonio Miguel MISSION #1: Surprise Us!
Mission #5
Surprise Us
OpenIDEO Merit Patches
How about an OpenIDEO merit patch? It will bond the OpenIDEO community and start conversations.
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Avi Solomon
August 10, 2011
11:40PM |
Mission #2
Try It Out
How OpenIDEO helped my son eat more healthily
This is my story of how my son Archie came to eat like a Lion (from barely eating like a mouse). It was all thanks to one of the OpenIDEO inspirations on the Jamie Oliver challenge exactly a year ago.
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Nathan Waterhouse
August 10, 2011
11:18PM |
Mission #4
Connections for Impact
Who to connect? Don't forget local government offices and staff.
Engaging local government for local impact.
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Simon Morfit
August 10, 2011
04:44PM |
Mission #3
Exploring Impact
Evoking openIDEO to scholars impact later Change
I would like openIDEO in my high schools where I grew up. It's personal, transparent: My openIDEO. By embracing Change locally to what is dearest to us, we are foot printing into a global community.
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Patricio M. Hidalgo
August 10, 2011
03:57PM |
Mission #3
Exploring Impact
How can everyone participate??
You have to be a bit brave to contribute here. You also have to know how to read and type. How do we make Open IDEO accessible to people we would not typically look to for ideas? How do we create a community to make all opinions equally valuable?
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Hello Lynn
August 07, 2011
09:21PM |
Mission #1
Favorite Highlights
Open Planet Ideas Development Day
At the beginning of the realisation phase for GreenBook (now known as +U), Sony and IDEO organised a great workshop to really bring together several disciplines and sketch out the future of the GreenBook app.
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Arjan Tupan
July 28, 2011
04:12PM |
Mission #4
Connections for Impact
Ambassador Example: Foursquare Ambassadors
Foursquare launched an ambassador programme in January, to get fanatic users to promote the specials platform. They've been so successful that they've now closed the sign-up.
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Arjan Tupan
August 10, 2011
05:43AM |
Mission #5
Surprise Us
Taking OpenIDEO beyond the English-speaking world
So far, all the content on OpenIDEO is in English. Translating it into other languages might help embracing a greater community and expand its impact worldwide.
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Sarah Fathallah
August 01, 2011
07:31PM |
Mission #3
Exploring Impact
How one little girl made a difference
The story of Rachel Beckwith who wanted people to donate to a charity that provided clean water to an African village rather than give her presents for her 9th birthday. Tragically she died before she got to see how she inspired people.
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Shan Jayaweera
July 29, 2011
10:46AM |
Mission #5
Surprise Us
Ethnography is Central
Ethnography or deep empathy earned by participant observation is central to design.
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Avi Solomon
August 09, 2011
10:26PM |
Mission #5
Surprise Us
Make the question well known
If the question to the subject is well known,
the answers can be great
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birgit + michel
August 08, 2011
10:52AM |
Mission #5
Surprise Us
Garage48 realizes concepts to first versions in 48 hours
The Garage48 events are quite popular in the Baltics and Nordic countries. By bringing together different talents, in 48 hours they manage to build first versions from concepts. Would this be a model to look at?
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Arjan Tupan
July 29, 2011
06:35AM |
Mission #3
Exploring Impact
Tracking the impact of social media
The website http://klout.com/ attempts to track people's social influence through social media
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Anne Kjaer Riechert
July 29, 2011
07:25PM |
Mission #5
Surprise Us
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?
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Chloe Tseung
August 09, 2011
03:01AM |
Mission #3
Exploring Impact
Depth AND Breadth
When considering, designing for, and evaluating social impact, it's important to take both depth & breadth into account. We aim to 1) significantly improve people's lives, and 2) broadly reach as many people as possible.
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Vincent Cheng
August 08, 2011
07:25PM |
Mission #3
Exploring Impact
Social Business and Social Design: a critical reflection
I came across this video where Vera Sacchetti takes a critical look at the social design movement and asks some tough but necessary questions around social business and social design.
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Krassimira Iordanova
August 04, 2011
01:34PM |
Mission #4
Connections for Impact
Turntable.fm
Turntable.fm is a fairly new social media site that allows people to take turns playing music for each other. It is a very basic premise, but leads to a very interesting musical journey!
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Russell Jelinek
July 29, 2011
07:21PM |
Mission #4
Connections for Impact
Devising Design Strategies for Non Profit Organization
Researching, Thinking, Planning and then Executing etc are various Major key areas, if done appropriately can make Massive Changes and Betterments to a challenge, Which therefore leads to devising a strategy, for a goal.
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Ankita Dewan
August 09, 2011
04:06PM |
Mission #5
Surprise Us
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.
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Kat Ingalls
August 04, 2011
04:54PM |
Mission #5
Surprise Us
Happy first birthday, OpenIDEO
And now for something completely different...
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Arjan Tupan
July 31, 2011
09:08AM |
