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What global challenge do you think innovation leaders should work to solve right now?
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Inspiration
What’s the most innovative thing going on where you live?
Before we start writing the agenda, we’d
like to build a library of insights and inspirations, capturing the most
interesting things happening globally. Post videos, images and stories to inspire
your fellow OpenIDEO members with what’s happening in your world, either
locally or at the national level. Remember to think
broadly – this is a big topic and the community can use all the inspiration we
can gather to help inform the next phase: Agenda Concepts.
Social Networks: Jumo (US)
Jumo is a social network focused on charities.
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Thao Vo
November 30, 2010
06:40AM |
Smarter Planet- Information led transformation
Massive data analysis is providing businesses with the opportunity to turn insights into actions. For example, Amazon was able to create individualized customization via the use of user data. How could we use data to have social impact?
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Adriana Peon
November 30, 2010
04:39AM |
Open innovation on a global scale
The United Nations (UN) Global Pulse initiative is working to close the information gap from the onset of a crisis by using publicly available data to protect individuals in developing countries.
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anjelika deogirikar
November 29, 2010
11:30PM |
Open innovation in healthcare promoted through open government initiatives
"Data liberation!" has been the new slogan of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)'s Chief Technology Officer Todd Park. Todd Park is leading the effort in HHS to open data sets to encourage innovative solutions in healthcare throu...
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anjelika deogirikar
November 29, 2010
10:11PM |
One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is violence due to gangs, drug trafficking, terrorist organizations, mafias and such. With the proliferation of such crimes and forms of violence, we are beginning to believe that it is normal to be surrounded by shootings, kidnappings, home robberies, etc.
A big part in the quelling of such violence is having a justice system that guarantees transparency and the processing of criminals swiftly and efficiently. The sense of justice is essentially non-existent in most developing countries where people do not press charges towards criminals fearing retaliation and being victims of corruption. This violence costs millions of dollars to economies and can become an important reason for people to consider migrating from their countries.
There must be greater collaboration between countries and the input of great minds; legal and from the innovation community, to use technology and collective thought in achieving real solutions.
Combatting violence through the transparent and efficient delivery of justice
One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is violence due to gangs, drug trafficking, terrorist organizations, mafias and such. With the proliferation of such crimes and forms of violence, we are beginning to believe that it is normal ...
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Luis E. Flores G.
November 15, 2010
10:19PM |
Citizens and groups using the Web to collaboratively consume and share their knowledge for solutions
Sites like Shareable and On the Commons are documenting the efforts in the collaborative consumption movement, and these sites are leading the way in helping people learn more about helping their communities through sharing and reducing their cons...
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Rachel Murray
November 20, 2010
11:41PM |
Palestinian-Israeli co-operation in practice: Ghost.cc (Israel/West Bank)
Ghost - see http://ghost.cc/ - is a company that provides cloud computing services. Not super special in these days, maybe, although they have won several prizes for their product and service quality. What makes Ghost special, and interesting for ...
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Arjan Tupan
November 16, 2010
08:46AM |
Play with Integration
Last year I participated in Gam3 In Copenhagen, an urban sports and culture organization that aims to improve integration of young people from minority cultures in Denmark, empower young boys and girls and tech them about teamwork, leadership and ...
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Andrea Wiholm
November 19, 2010
06:26PM |
Waste to Resource: Recycle Match (US)
Matching companies who list commercial volumes of waste material with those that can use them (win-win scenario).
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Meena Kadri
November 16, 2010
05:49AM |
Participatory Budgeting (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Give ordinary residents a role in deciding how to allocate part of a municipal or public budgets.
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Nicole Skibola
November 23, 2010
12:15AM |
The Creativity Crisis
We need to realize that creativity is a human resource. And whenever society breaks down our creativity, it contributes to a global crisis.
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Kristine Tsung
November 10, 2010
02:42AM |
STAND UP! GET UP! DO SOMETHING!
I want to bring this to the attention of everyone who watches the computer all day: don't just watch your life go by! Stand up. Get up. Do something. I think the biggest global challenge we face is to slow everybody down, including myself, in thi...
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Kristine Tsung
November 09, 2010
09:08PM |
Designers as "Wayfinders"
One core gift readers might unwrap in this book is an entry awareness of human values that have endured time; values of connection, reliance, respect and responsibility. Applications are endless and essential. These values transcend the boundaries...
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Andreanna
November 20, 2010
10:05PM |
Redesign the ideas of the city.
Cities today are the opportunity to many of the worlds problems. In cities, people are connected, education is better, finding a doctor is easier, finding a job is easier, life is better for most. But is the concept of the city today still worth ...
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James McBennett
November 10, 2010
11:02AM |
Helping voters find their party: Stemwijzer (Netherlands)
The Netherlands has a multi-party political landscape, and for many voters it is hard to keep track of what each party stands for exactly. Especially in election time. Stemwijzer (vote guide) lets the user answer to several questions and then list...
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Arjan Tupan
November 16, 2010
07:33AM |
Fab-Labs: Innovation Centers on Wheels.
Fab Labs are a successful concept that can be “replicated” and rapidly deployed and used in conjunction with international idea centers that can leverage new concepts like crowdsourcing and encourage age old concepts like apprenticeships and skill...
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Tom Miller
November 16, 2010
04:02PM |
Collaborative Platforms: Ripple Effect (India)
A novel approach transforms access to safe drinking water by those at the base of the economic pyramid.
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Meena Kadri
November 15, 2010
05:35AM |
Prototyping Social Design Solutions: SHE (Rwanda)
The ability to absorb new knowledge and iterate accordingly is a key element of a successful social design process.
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Nicole Skibola
November 15, 2010
01:06PM |
Sharing ideas, knowledge and research around the world
Many of the inspirations cite TED talks or other lectures, videos, or widely available information-sharing sources that have arrived because of access to the internet and speedy technology. These are an inspiration themselves in their ability to m...
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Liz Kramer
November 18, 2010
02:23AM |
We need to find a way to decrease personal, corporate, and governmental leveraged debt within the next five to seven years in most developed countries (especially the U.S). We also need to find ways to decrease our economic reliance on china's ability to become a consumerist economy, that may happen but it wont be any time soon.
Leverage
We need to find a way to decrease personal, corporate, and governmental leveraged debt within the next five to seven years in most developed countries (especially the U.S). We also need to find ways to decrease our economic reliance on china's abi...
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clayton lewis
November 10, 2010
06:07AM |
