I am a new member to OpenIDEO and as someone who is always an advocate for a learning opportunity I echo the applause for Charlotte and her OpenUNI concept. In support of implementation, I think the opportunity to share the experience and learnings – not just within an existing campus/university group – but also with other universities groups (the OpenIDEO Forum!) will be instrumental. Within the last year or so, the learning ecosystem has evolved to be one that is relationship centered - community to many - and a focus on people, content and work. Great to see both OpenIDEO and the OpenUNI concept represent this!

I completely agree with the other comments and I see great potential in teaching creative innovation, the innovation process and team work through OpenIDEO. I just discovered this platform and I am already hooked. What I like the most is the fact that you actually bring together different people around common interest no matter the distance. I am going to speak to a few of my teachers about using OpenIDEO in their courses but I will also talk to some of the student organizations that we have here on campus like Engineers Without Boarders and Chalmers Students for Sustainability who are always looking for projects!

Keep up this awesome work!
I love beeing part of this

I'm sure others can relate to the feeling of having too many entrepreneurs with new ideas in the room and not enough implementers--those that are able to take a brilliant idea and do whatever it takes to make it work. I like this concept because it prepares students to learn teamwork and prove that they can creatively implement crowd-sourced concepts even if they are not one of the originating authors. Seems like a very important skill to have these days and going forward!

I teach the strategy class at the Presidio Green MBA program in SF and we have been exploring using OpenIDEO as a platform for idea generation for class projects, specifically with the externship program that is a large component of the class.

Any increase in the use of OpenID as a tool/platform would be welcome, I image.

Involvement of Universities and students in OPENIDEO concepts will also give the students to work on grassroot development issues and thus will help in generating diverse and innovative ideas. This will be interesting for the students as well in tackling the real problems of the society and will motivate them to join the development sector in the future.
This involvement will give opportunity to the concept developing organizations to find solutions and act on them & get better outcome.

Fantastic concept Charlotte...eager to see how it goes. It may be interesting to explore how OpenUNI can also be pushed by different existing global student bodies such as AIESEC, SIFE, Rotaract...since they bring creative passionate students together and they already do a number of community development initiatives. I especially know since I was in charge of some of such projects while in AIESEC. They would be perfect as implementors but also as submitters

Hi! I have no idea where I can post the nice idea, so I share with it here ;)

http://www.futurewewant.org/

It was indeed a very common mention during the last challenge of increasing participation from universities as well as companies on OpenIDEO, to increase common good. It's great to see Charlotte's concept coming to life with Anne-Laure's great participation, Ashwin's super initiative, as well as Michael & Sarah's explorations.

Thanks for the reminder of calling us back to the Realisation phases of the previous Challenge! Keep us posted :)
Congrats to everyone!