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OpenIDEO: Five tips for creating great Inspirations
October 7th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Getting inspired from Analogies
September 28th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
At OpenIDEO we thought it might help to start documenting some of the different ways that we can think about solving problems and provide some of the tips and methodologies we’ve learned across IDEO. Particularly relevant to our latest challenge with Amnesty International is the way in which we can learn from analogous situations. Sometimes [...]
»Read the rest of this entry «OpenIDEO: Impact in Low-Cost Sanitation
September 26th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Our friends at Unilever and WSUP has produced this wonderful video to tell the story of how the low-cost sanitation prototypes from the IDEO.org + OpenIDEO.com project have been going. Watch the video now
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July 6th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Here’s the final video from the TEDx-Prototype event STAN’11 featuring Jennifer Aaker and myself talking about the OpenIDEO Bone Marrow challenge that we ran recently and the amazing work of 100kCheeks Stanford students.
»Read the rest of this entry «Collaborative Design for the Social Good: Compostmodern AIGA talk
June 26th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
In January of this year I had the great honour of speaking at the AIGA event ‘Compostmodern ’11′ in San Francisco. The event was really inspiring and featured people like Yves Behar talking about the great work he and his team does at Fuse Project, Bruce Mau talking about his desire for taking low cost [...]
»Read the rest of this entry «The latest on OpenIDEO
May 22nd, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
I thought you might like to hear about some of the latest developments happening on the OpenIDEO platform. We’re tracking impact We now have a new challenge phase on OpenIDEO called Realisation, where we tell stories and create action around implementation of concepts. Because implementation and impact mean different things for different challenges, each Realisation [...]
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May 22nd, 2011 § 2 comments § permalink
I just had the honor of presenting one of our most recent OpenIDEO challenges and representing the Stanford Haas Center and the amazing 100kCheeks student team alongside Jennifer Aaker. The challenge focussed on how to increase the number of ‘cheeks’ in the bone marrow registry. This is something that is a massive issue, especially for [...]
»Read the rest of this entry «Help us make a dent in cancer
May 22nd, 2011 § 3 comments § permalink
The students of 100K Cheeks, a group that was formed to put the message of the Dragonfly Effect into action, are on a mission to register 100,000 people into the bone marrow registry this year, but we can’t do it alone. We’re hoping you’ll help us advocate for widespread social change. Every single Facebook post, tweet [...]
»Read the rest of this entry «Make an impact on Bone Marrow Donation
February 19th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink
OpenIDEO’s latest challenge is a partnership with Stanford’s Haas Center and an inspiring group of students running an initiative called 100kCheeks. Bone Marrow Donation is a complex problem: although there are national Bone Marrow Registres such as the BetheMatch US site, it’s still hard for many people to find a match who desperately require a transplant in [...]
»Read the rest of this entry «Reflections on the i20
January 29th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink
A couple of weeks ago I had the honour and the privilege of attending and speaking at an event hosted by The White House and The Department of State. The event was organised by John Kao and his Institute of Large Scale Innovation and attendees included heads of innovation for 28 different countries. The purpose [...]
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