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Featured Challenge
How might we support web entrepreneurs in launching and growing sustainable global businesses?
Web entrepreneurship is emerging as a key building block for economies globally. Against a backdrop of challenging financial landscapes, increased adoption of technology is providing opportunities to connect, co-ordinate and catalyse. In this OpenIDEO challenge, the European Commission’s Digital Agenda Assembly is looking for help identifying ways to improve the environment for online start-ups.
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Active Challenges
How might we support web entrepreneurs in launching and growing sustainable global businesses?
Concept in Evaluation »Hackathons and user groups
Developers like to get together over weekends to build new products from scratch. These are called 'hackathons'. By embedding them in local surroundings and getting support from local governments, they will be easier to exist and grow.
Challenges in Realisation
How might we increase the number of registered bone marrow donors to help save more lives?
Latest Realisation Story »Surpassing 100,000 Cheeks
The goal of our Bone Marrow Donation Challenge was to increase the number of registered bone marrow donors to help save more lives.
How might we better connect food production and consumption?
Latest Realisation Story »The Locavore Edition
The Locavore Edition is an significant step to impact arising from the conversations and concepts from our Local Food Challenge. The future of food certainly tastes better, together.
How might we increase social impact with OpenIDEO over the next year?
Latest Realisation Story »Realisation Project: OpenUNI
Throughout our Impact Challenge, the idea of increasing participation from university and graduate students was a common topic, and Charlotte Fliegner’s winning concept, OpenUNI, encapsulated a lot of that. Here's our first Realisation Project upd...
How can we improve sanitation and better manage human waste in low-income urban communities?
Latest Realisation Story »Clean Team Customer Feedback
While one of our students was out in Ghana he made us a great video about the trial. Hear from our first customers what they feel about how the project is going.
How might we use social business to improve health in low-income communities?
Latest Realisation Story »Next Steps from Caldas
A few weeks have passed since we announced the 10 winning concepts in our OpenIDEO Social Business Challenge. Since then, things have been moving quickly for the Grameen Creative Lab team in Colombia, with many of our projects taking great steps f...
Recently Completed Challenges
Field Notes
May 13, 2012
OpenIDEATOR Insight: Stefan Ritter
Our monthly featured collaborator from the awesome OpenIDEO community. This time round: an Austrian-born architect now based in London. READ MORE
May 09, 2012
Communities: It’s not always about size, but about depth
Many online communities parade their community size stats as if it were the only measure of success. As a result it’s easy to think that’s the most... READ MOREMay 01, 2012
