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This is your chance to tell the i20 event attendees what’s really important to you and where you think they should focus their energy. Help set the agenda for this milestone large-scale innovation forum. Formulate a question which will help them probe innovation and global challenges.
How can we create a global approach to protecting the oceans?
The oceans are critical to our survival as a species and to life on Earth as we know it. From a human perspective, the developing world gets 40% of its protein from the Sea, we use it for commerce: shipping, for travel, the seas are a potential in...
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Nathan Waterhouse
December 20, 2010
11:58PM |
How can we use technology to create open democracy?
A large portion of our population is ignorant about the important issues of our government. And, the sources by which we gain information about the government are increasingly biased and unreliable. Social media technology is able to connect large...
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Nicholas Masso
December 19, 2010
09:11PM |
In the last years companies started to outsource manufacturing to poorer countries in order to reduce costs.
And a lot of people in those poorer countries tried the opposite: they migrate to richer countries looking for better opportunities.
But the rules are the opposite for them: richer countries closes the frontiers to foreign people, while poor countries opens them to companies –sometimes by relaxing taxes or laws to favor the installations of new factories.
Governments have to think in the promotion of a better approach to globalization.
Not to reduce production costs, but to share knowledge and allow underdeveloped countries to grow.
How to provide equal opportunities by changing the way that companies do outsourcing?
In the last years companies started to outsource manufacturing to poorer countries in order to reduce costs.
And a lot of people in those poorer countries tried the opposite: they migrate to richer countries looking for better opportunities.
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Diego Fernandez
December 19, 2010
03:41AM |
Technology has revolutionized the way we publish and access information. We have information, loads of it, freely available, almost a commodity now. What we need now is a revolution in making and taking optimal decisions and actions together.....
Online democracy and decision making
Technology has revolutionized the way we publish and access information. We have information, loads of it, freely available, almost a commodity now. What we need now is a revolution in making and taking optimal decisions and actions together.....
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Kutlu Kazanci
December 18, 2010
10:03PM |
AVAILABLE WATER FOR ALL. How to allow provision of this raw material for the whole of humanity? Each knows ( for it no need of statistics ) that water rarefies itself , that water is unevenly distributed on the globe surface and that water ( not for packaging but for detection, production and preservation ) becomes object of eager speculations.
Besides this , the more an entity is rare, the better is its value, indeed its preciousness character fully come out.
There is many perceptions of its preciousness some people want to guarantee its regular supply without additional constraints, others aim to treat it like any commodity or product under rough or oppressive trade conditions
How to allow provision of water for the whole of humanity?
AVAILABLE WATER FOR ALL. How to allow provision of this raw material for the whole of humanity? Each knows ( for it no need of statistics ) that water rarefies itself , that water is unevenly distributed on the globe surface and that water ( no...
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Louis Cyrille MPONDO MBOKA
December 15, 2010
10:24AM |
How can we Reduce Toxicity that makes us sick?
Mercury from coal burning plants pollutes our air 24/7. DDT has returned to the Western US on the winds from China. 5% of the weight of furniture foam is toxic fire retardants. Many household products contain harmful chemicals. And the list goes ...
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Paul Hess
November 26, 2010
06:21PM |
Incentivizing local food production and consumption
Improving local food production and distribution models is key for environmental sustainability, community heath and a thriving, local agricultural industry. How do we build a system of positive behavioral incentives that encourage local, healthy ...
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Nicole Skibola
December 11, 2010
10:50PM |
How to improve the NGO ecosystem to make existing NGOs more productive?
There are adequate number of NGOs existing at present (2 million NGOs in India, around 40,000 NGOs operating globally, 227,000 NGOs in Russia and so on). With so many NGOs around need of the hour is to provide an improved ecosystem to existing NGO...
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Rahul Singh
December 17, 2010
08:44AM |
How should a global system be organized? or: Should service design play the role of symptom treatment or deal with causes?
An interdisciplinary and cross-industry system that would make our planet more open would make life so much easier and more fair. Ecology, a fair equality, accessible basics in ecological best quality, an ecological best quality base for autonomy,...
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CHARITY-FOUNDATION GLOBALFIRM™
November 25, 2010
02:00PM |
How can Humanity pass its greatest challenge-to grow vigorously and sustainably?
My idea is to develop a new and better paradigm for societies to grow vigorously and sustainably. Life must always grow or else it is dead or dying. However, our current growth paradigm is causing us to destroy ourselves. We need to find a way to ...
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Jan Bartscht
December 13, 2010
01:27PM |
Millennium Development Goals: Collaborating for Change
The Millennium Development Goals (http://www.un.org/milleniumgoals) were agreed to by all members of the United Nations, as well as >20 other international organizations. As about 2/3 of the time has passed from the launch of the Millennium Develo...
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Vincent Cheng
November 23, 2010
04:24PM |
The focus on innovation in different sectors, such as technology, government, philanthropy, business and non-profits is exciting. As we explore the reach of technology, in our world-wide life, we are missing an important ingredient for success.
As we look at generating new ideas, we have to be equally interested in the organizational systems charged with implementing these changes. Our current organizational systems were not designed to support innovation. So even if an idea is remarkable, the delivery system may not be capable of doing the job.
A focus on systems design from conception to implementation needs to go hand in hand with new ideas. In many cases we already have the capacity, resources, knowledge and skills needed, they just need to be deployed and leveraged in new ways.
We have examples every day of redundancy, duplication of effort and spending the same dollar over and over again. Organizational re-design is part of innovation.
Innovation in Organizational Design
The focus on innovation in different sectors, such as technology, government, philanthropy, business and non-profits is exciting. As we explore the reach of technology, in our world-wide life, we are missing an important ingredient for success.
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andrea schneider
December 11, 2010
02:10AM |
What is humanity´s identity?
We are Hindus, we are Christians, we are Jews, Russians, Italians, Puerto Ricans.
Do we got a common Identity? How do we live out our humanity´s identity? Is it hip hop, country, ecological movements, Nike, Adidas, Mercedes Benz and BMW? Is it t...
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CHARITY-FOUNDATION GLOBALFIRM™
December 03, 2010
05:15PM |
government policy + sustainable whole-system frameworks
government policy + sustainable whole-system frameworks
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Andreanna
December 11, 2010
04:44AM |
Creating physical - not just online - communities
The last decade or so has seen massive innovation in online, or distance, community building. Facebook. MySpace. Foursquare. But what about creating meaningful physical communities? Are these online social media tools just a way to remind us how m...
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Sachpreet Chandhoke
November 25, 2010
12:05AM |
How can we better enable inclusion of everyone?
How can we better enable the inclusion of those who are at risk of exclusion from our communities? Those most disadvantaged are frequently most likely to be locked out of the principal decision making forums involved in forming, shaping and evolvi...
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Emily Wiseman
December 04, 2010
11:52PM |
How do you teach people to lead themselves?
“How can we really help and improve other countries?" In my opinion, aide needs to go beyond providing much required goods and resources. We also need to discover how to teach citizens to lead and to build communities.
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Andrew Hsu
December 08, 2010
12:48AM |
Design thinking aims to discover the real needs of customers and this means that an organization’s strategy should be customer focused. A customer focus, however, can run into barriers when parts of the organization have different objectives like pushing products or ROI. There is still a need for clearer models of how to align the whole organization and all the functions to customer metrics: sales, marketing, product development, operations, management, accounting, finance, and human resources. For example, how does marketing represent customer needs in meetings in a way that meshes with the criteria of finance? If design thinking is inserted into traditional organizations that are incompatible, then designs are not as likely to be supported and faithfully produced and delivered. How can we create models of organizations to implement design thinking to serve customers and stakeholders?
How can we Redesign Organizations to Implement Design Thinking?
Design thinking aims to discover the real needs of customers and this means that an organization’s strategy should be customer focused. A customer focus, however, can run into barriers when parts of the organization have different objectives like ...
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Paul Hess
December 15, 2010
02:05AM |
How to deal with economic and/or humanitarian crimes?
How can we deal with economic and humanitarian crimes, in a human way in fairness to all parties involved. At local and global scales... Or even better, Would there be a way to prevent these economic and or humanitarian crimes?
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Adriana Olmos
November 25, 2010
05:52PM |
Is it Possible to Collectively 'Forget' Technology For The Good of Mankind?
Nuclear weapon technology, even in it's early stages, killed thousands and thousands of people. As well as profoundly polluting the environment. The technology has since been developed to be even more massively deadly, has been proliferated, stol...
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Demian Repucci
December 17, 2010
03:37PM |
