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These shorlisted ideas and the others which aren't mentioned in this article are still open for voting and commenting on the project's official website. The winning idea will be developed...
Open Planet Ideas was always supposed to be an open, collaborative platform so it’s great that YouthNet are involved. It's a great partnership! So, watch this video and learn about their...
Since Greenbook was announced as the final concept on January 24, 2011, the realisation journey has begun. Sony and WWF are in regular dialogue with the creator of Greenbook, Paul Frigout, and...
The Open Planet Ideas project, sponsored by Sony and WFF (the World Wide Fund for Nature), is a true web2.0 green-hearted initiative, aimed at crowdsourcing responses from the online masses that will address key environmental issues. Cheaper than in-house R&D and more Mother Nature friendly, Sony scores great PR and the electronics giant’s own technology gets repurposed.
Crowdsourcing continues to gain momentum in the private sector. From Microsoft’s Imagine CupLego’s Mindstorms and from GE’s $200m Ecoimagination Challenge to Sony’s Open Planet Ideas, we’ve seen countless examples of cost-efficient, time saving, and high yield crowdsourcing implementations. While crowdsourcing has gained traction in the private sector as a great vehicle for innovation and customer engagement, it is interesting to observe how the public sector is embracing crowdsourcing as an economically effective vehicle for engaging their constituents.
Paul Frigout's GreenBook concept has been chosen by Sony and WWF in their crowdsourcing initiative. Reinventing community activism to attract the Facebook generation, ‘GreenBook’ is a cross...
Launched by Sony and in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund and the design group, IDEO, Open Planet Ideas is a crowdsourcing project geared towards inviting their customers to share their...
+U volunteering mobile app is the result of the Open Planet Ideas crowd sourcing challenge where Ideas were invited to create sustainable lifestyles from existing technologies. The app has...
Magdalena Wasowska, General Manager of Technology and Software Centre at Sony, said: "The Open Planet Ideas platform provided members of the online community with direct access to Sony and...
Sony wanted to find a way to make sustainability more relevant to wider group of people. It wanted to reach a new audience, beyond those who are already green-aware and active. Creatives and...
But the involvement of crowd based open innovation is poised to continue since +U is open source, meaning that anyone can adapt it for their own charities needs. So, this app might just be the...
The Canadian non-profit Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) plans to give up to $40 million to innovative green energy projects. Open innovation refers to using ideas from both the in-house research and development team and outside contributors to solve problems. CCEMC is looking for innovative ideas in areas that include “wind generation, geothermal, run-of-river and micro generation hydro, solar, and biomass.”
The innovation in social networking media has transformed the planet in the 21st century as it has been established that social networking sites, for instance LinkedIn, Orkut and Facebook, are...
Lisa Barone’s “7 Ways to Incorporate Crowdsourcing into Your Business” originally published by OutspokenMedia.com recently sparked quite a discussion amongst the online crowdsourcing community. While Barone’s article covers a list of crowdsourcing applications for SMBs and start-ups, we should also consider the implications of crowdsourcing for bigger businesses and large enterprises. Crowdsourcing is definitely impacting a wide range of business models, but its use and applicability varies according to the size of the entity.
The project stood on the shoulders of the Citizen Science Alliance. Launching their Galaxy Zoo website in 2007, astrophysicist Chris Lintott and his Oxford University colleagues asked the public...
Last week, five exciting platforms caught our eyes: DesignCrowd, Rock The Post, FundaGeek, PyBossa, and GetFunded. This week, we are highlighting two more platforms, Jammio and Localstake, as well as an open innovation initiative by the University of Cambridge.
Olivier Guyon, an optical physicist, astronomer, and 2012 MacArthur fellow, wants to crowdsource planet hunting. The plan is to have amateur astronomers with a Cannon DSLR camera go out and take pictures of the night sky. Using specially crafted software, even DSLR pictures can identify the luminosity of some stars. Guyon plans to create an open-source database with this information, making it easier to identify which stars have planets orbiting around them.
Katerva is Greek for crowdsourcing. Katerva's mission is to create the first truly open global platform for change. According to Terry Waghorn , founder and CEO of Katerva,...
When you hold the lofty position of being the number one manufacturer of both mobile phone handsets and smartphones with a 13 and 17 point lead respectively in market share, you might think “why change a winning formula”; however for Nokia, innovation is the DNA not just part of it! Nokia maintains a healthy lead in the rankings charts for 2010 as reported by both IDC and Strategy Analytics however with Samsung’s annual sales growth trumping Nokia’s by a factor of over four times, Nokia’s number one position is threatened unless it can improve its annual sales growth figures.
One recent attempt to do this was to make an open call for innovation, inviting, for the first time, the crowd to create a new version of its iconic ringtone, which has been its trademark since 1994.
In partnership, Nokia selected the small Finnish startup, AudioDraft which was founded in July 2010. AudioDraft specializes in contest based challenges that crowdsource music and sound design. The contest attracted thousands of talented sound designers and music producers from all over the world, with Nokia paying $ 10,000 for the winner. The new ringtone will be available on some 100 million devices and will be heard over 1 billion times a day.
NASA is updating its website for the first time in five years, and it wants to hear what changes the crowd thinks should be implemented. For the initiative, which started last week, NASA paired up with the crowdsourcing platform IdeaScale. Ideas will be accepted until December 19th.
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