A Girl Story is an innovative fundraising campaign by Nanhi Kali. They created a video story about a girl in India who wants education. Just like their target group. Chapters in the story were unlocked by donation levels. Just as in reality

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Following up on Shana's inspiration about local government engagement in San Francisco, there is an opportunity at all levels of government (from individual towns to international organizations like the United Nations) to increase public participation in a collaborative innovation process. This increases the chance of creating solutions that truly meet the needs of and are actively supported by citizens, while also building public trust through a transparent process. One large-scale example in the United States is the current National Open Government Initiative.

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<p>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.</p><p><br></p>

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TEDx are locally-organized conferences that bring a similar experience of the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference to your local community throughout the year.

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Companies that have realized profit AND the value of positive social trust / goodwill at the bottom of the pyramid are society's business and social innovators.

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Cities have already overtaken rural settings as the most inhabited places to live on the planet. One of the most lovely examples of bringing the rural back to the city is the example of city farms. London has a few, but my favourite is Hackney City Farm.

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In November 2010, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Pfizer announced a partnership to create an open innovation network to accelerate drug discovery and development to bring novel therapies to patients.

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Allow a community to support individual parts of a farm. A farm needs tools, seeds, labor, soil, ect.. You can buy/donate just the parts it needs. An amazing version of this idea can be seen here. http://www.the-girl-store.org/shop

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"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 through the Community Health Data Initiative.

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We've created a shortlist of 36 Agenda Concepts. Help us evaluate these so we can compile a final list for discussion by world innovation leaders at the i20 summit.

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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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In the same way that Fuji Film pivoted to wholeheartedly embrace digital photography, the ability to recognise and effectively change the direction of a business is a critical quality to possess.

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The pool of inspirations on OpenIDEO is evidence of the wealth of innovations taking place all around the world. These local innovative examples have the potential to change the world on a large scale, but I fear there is an expiration date to some of them. They could be terminated due to a number of reasons, such as the lost of funding, the lost of resources, the lost of market momentum, etc. If we fail to execute them in a timely manner, will they get shelved, collect dust, and wither away?

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What is Social Impact Entrepeneurship? "Impact Investors, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, government and civic leaders, and innovators to design a world that’s better for all."

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Fundation Bankinter "The only foundation in the European financial system committed to fostering innovation-sustained wealth."... And they definitly do, I put this into inspiration source because of the content they produce, its inspiring!

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What makes innovation happen is the ability to transform dreams, into ideas. But when you need to make this happen you need a really good feedback in realtime, so the use of videos and live meetings its fundamental to accomplish this.

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If terrorists are innovative regarding the technology they use and how they execute their attacks, the public should not remain silent, they should also think innovatively to help counter-act terrorism and human rights abusers, like we do here.

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Michael Pollan provides plenty of inspiration of how to look our food production. He tells a captivating story about the systems of gardening & agriculture and the roles humans play.

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Early in 2011 a group of global innovation leaders – known as the i20 – will meet for a global innovation summit. They are the principal drivers of national innovation strategies across thirty countries. You can influence their summit agenda. OpenIDEO contributions will be used to help determine priorities and directions for the conference.

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Jane's Walks are named in honour of urbanist Jane Jacobs to get people out of their cars, homes and offices to explore their city and see it anew. It encourages community but also rediscovery of the city around us. They are held in 9 countries worldwide, 68 cities, and there were 424 walks as of 2009.

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In Taiwan, the YEF program by Epoch Foundation is a multi-disciplinary, multinational educational program on entrepreneurship and innovation. Over the previous 10 years, YEF has cultivated over 1,000 collegiate students nationwide and 20 start-ups.

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