Open Innovation Best Practices (by vbilgram)
A collection of best practice examples in Open Innovation and Co-Creation including Siemens, Danone, Beiersdorf, Henkel, Swarovski and Daimler.
Trying to standardize the taxonomy of crowdsourcing
The Daily Crowdsource suggest the following official taxonomy for crowdsourcing: Microtasks, Macrotasks, Crowdfunding, Crowd Contests.
A standard set of categories would help the area develop best practices and a unified way of handling common problems.
http://dailycrowdsource.com/downloads/umbrella-of-crowdsourcing.pdf
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Join us at 12pm or 2pm on October 15th for a tour of the architectural wonders and hidden gems of East Harlem. We will meet at 114th Street and Pleasant Avenue (across the street from Rao’s) and walk the neighborhood for about an hour. Reservations are not required, but if you’d like to email us and let us know you’re coming, thats fine too (urbanitisblog@gmail.com)
Key findings at Globe Forum Stockholm 2011
We would like to thank all delegates and partners for sharing your ideas and experiences around sustainable development at this year Globe Forum in Stockholm.
During the day we tried to clarify how partners of Globe Forum can join forces to drive sustainable innovations to the market faster. Working through the program seven keys to create a win-win partnership became more obvious: Education, Entrepreneurship, Ecosystem of Partners, Employment, Environment, Energy and Eco-Innovation. All of these were discussed and moved forward during Globe Forum Stockholm.
Since over 50% of humanity now lives in urban areas, cities are at the centre of being able to drive sustainable innovations. During the headline session: The cities as solution to the sustainable future, it was concluded that sustainability offers cities the opportunity to succeed economically while providing better and more productive places to live for their residents. This conclusion was emphasized even more when The South Korean district Songpa entered the stage to receive the Globe Sustainable City Award 2011.
Another interesting aspect during the day was the discussions around Globe Forum marketplace. The idea of Globe Forum marketplace is to create a thriving innovation ecosystem oriented toward entrepreneurship, commercialization and collaboration on the parts of government, industry, not-for-profits, academia and investors, this to find new ways to broker fund excellent solutions and crowdsource the intelligence needed to bring these solutions to the market.
Throughout the day 10 cleantech companies was partaking in the organized matchmaking consisting of 45 meetings with investors/buyers from Europe and South America, which resulted in several leads and established business contacts.
The day ended on a very positive note with The way ahead lecture held by Patrick Svenburg Director Government Platform Strategy Microsoft Corporation. Along with the exciting innovators contest won by Bokashi I believe that all of us left Globe Forum assured that the scale of the challenge we face in moving towards sustainability is matched by the scale of the opportunities available to us.
The forum in numbers:
630 participants
19 exhibitors
36 speakers
45 investors/buyers from Europe, Asia and South America
10 Cleantech Companies for the matchmaking
45 Matchmaking meetings
40 journalists
6 new companies enrolled to Globe Forum Accelerator Program
Innovations Against Poverty - Sida at Globe Forum 2011. by Publicservicesweden
Marketplace - short rundown of the discussion at Globe Forum 2011
Diogo, Randy and Matt shared their thoughts on the rise of social media and how the wealth of collaborative online services interconnects the world.
To create a well-working marketplace, trust has to be created in a convenient environment for all different groups, to ensure that everyone is collaborating on equal terms.
Examples that were discussed were:
The UN led Reseach4Life that MS is heavily involved in for providing leading scientific info to developing country scientists. www.research4life.org
Bayh–Dole Act or University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh-Dole_Act
Dialogue Café a Cisco project that enables face to face conversations between diverse groups of people from around the world so that they can share experiences; learn from each other and work together to make the world a better place. Dialogue Cafes are now open in Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon and Amsterdam. www.dialoguecafe.org
Crowdsourcing - Microsoft Imagine Cup, using the Redfish Media platform
One of the amazing ideas that came out of ImagineCup
http://thelifelensproject.com/
The Comingled Code - Open Source and Economic Development: A great new book on the topic about the hidden issues around open source and proprietary software and monetisation of the innovations that come out of each and both tougher (ie co-mingled). http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12308
Diogo Vasconcelos Distinguished Fellow, Internet Business Solution Group Cisco
Matt McKenna President, Red Fish Media
Randy Ramusack United Nations Technology Officer, Microsoft
Moderator: Annelie Andersson Marketing Director, Globe Forum
Greenwashing in classic 70s-style
Want to be perceived as “green” throw an event or launch something for Earth Day! Duh.
40 years later, advertisers are still talking about the same things. Does it work? Consumers let’s Get Real! Companies doesn’t seem to manage on their own.
Innovative ideas for social interaction
Digital communication offers a possibility to preserve the environment and save time, but how can we continue improving our life in a digitized world without losing the social interaction?
While discussing our roadmap towards a sustainble future from a human perspective, Adam Brännström from Eskilstuna Energi & Miljö, placed the challenge: Innovative ideas for social interaction
The background for this challenge
In Sweden older people are the largest growing group of people and the need for healthcare is increasing rapidly. To withhold the quality of healthcare, more health professionals are hired which is a costly action.
Consequently the county council is trying to counterbalance this by bundling up the primary care units. This result in increased power consumption by the larger unit, longer care transports for people on the countryside, more emissions, as well as more administration due to complex logistics.
Possible Solution – Home Care: Eskilstuna has one of the world’s most modern metropolitan area networks with a speed of 1000 Mbit per second, today more than a quarter of the household is connected. This enables the city of Eskilstuna to implement an interactive solution for taking care of simple routine check ups, for instance blood pressure and blood sugar can be taken care of via a cell phone or TV screen, without even having the patience leave their home.
This increases the productivity, saves time and eases the pressure on the environment with less transportation. But what does this mean to people’s social life?
- What happens to the quality of the healthcare and life when the face-to-face interaction is removed from the regular check ups?
- How can a large bureaucratic organisation such as the city council use this technology to become a faster and more dynamic organisation?
Please feel free to be creative when taking on the challenge, what can we do to integrate social interaction in a digitized world? Do we need to design homes and cities differently, how can we work with robots in the home and could elderly people get virtual aid with this solution?
Respond to the challenge on Globe Forum web: http://tinyurl.com/6kuwf8d
or e-mail: challenge@globeforum.com
Stay true to yourself and others! Annelie Andersson
What is worth innovating for?
Everyone that have walked across the bridge Nybron in Eskilstuna and experienced the exhibition Hard Rain by photographer Mark Edwards must have felt that the need for peaceful and sustainable innovations is crucial.
Using the eye-opening exhibition Hard Rain, Sida is in collaboration with Globe Forums extensive network challenging all innovators and citizens to think creatively around what is worth improving, developing and change to finally answer the central question: What is worth innovating for?
The challenge What is worth innovating for? Went live today at Munktell Science Park during the speech held by Annika Magnusson from PwC. The reason for the challenge is threefold, attract local innovators, and build a strong platform for sustainable development that can be shared with other regions, and finally to reach out and raise awareness of Sida’s program Innovation against Poverty.
During the day we will be carrying out interviews to gather all thoughts and ideas around the challenge. If you are not here today we still would like you to participate go to www.globeforum.com/sidachallenge or e-mail your ideas to challenge@globeforum.com
Thank you!
Annelie
What is the D word doing in the country name?
“If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
…and that goes for all these countries:
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The German Democratic Republic.
The original quote comes from the iron lady Thatcher:
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
- Margaret Thatcher
MT, GT, DD
10-4
Annelie Andersson
When we started, we thought we were looking for smart people, but it turned out that intelligence was not as important as we expected. If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
