Time Magazine currently has a special feature on the 10 Ideas that are Changing the World. If you want to know what Synthetic Authenticity and Reverse Radicalism are, then this is the place for you: interesting stuff. At a more...
Topics: Ideas, Inventions

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A couple of things that might be of interest to readers from the tail end of last year (happy new year, btw: it was a very busy 2007 at the day job, but hopefully more GIB-related activity this year). First...
Topics: Business, Ideas, Inventions

{"title":"Spring wisely and go Camp","post_url":"http:\/\/globalideas.blogs.com\/the_global_ideas_blog\/2008\/01\/spring-wisely-a.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/globalideas.blogs.com\/the_global_ideas_blog\/index.rdf","author":null,"date":"2008-01-10 09:53:52","summary":"A couple of things that might be of interest to readers from the tail end of last year (happy new year, btw: it was a very busy 2007 at the day job, but hopefully more GIB-related activity this year). First..."}

A long, long time ago, I remember stumbling across Eric Von Hippel's "Democratizing Innovation" and having a light-bulb moment of connection with what the Global Ideas Bank is all about....user-led social innovation. The book outline is...
Topics: Creativity, Ideas, Inventions

{"title":"User-led (social) innovation?","post_url":"http:\/\/globalideas.blogs.com\/the_global_ideas_blog\/2007\/06\/userled_social_.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/globalideas.blogs.com\/the_global_ideas_blog\/index.rdf","author":null,"date":"2007-06-19 05:55:22","summary":"A long, long time ago, I remember stumbling across Eric Von Hippel's \"Democratizing Innovation\" and having a light-bulb moment of connection with what the Global Ideas Bank is all about....user-led social innovation. The book outline is..."}

Great idea, great social invention. This idea combines a screensaver and a social network to aid Alzheimer's sufferers. As the inventor, Said Dajani, explains: "The screensaver is a virtual scrapbook - a carer and person with dementia can work...
Topics: Ideas, Science

{"title":"The Alzheimer Screensaver","post_url":"http:\/\/globalideas.blogs.com\/the_global_ideas_blog\/2007\/05\/the_alzheimer_s.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/globalideas.blogs.com\/the_global_ideas_blog\/index.rdf","author":null,"date":"2007-05-30 06:22:02","summary":"Great idea, great social invention. This idea combines a screensaver and a social network to aid Alzheimer's sufferers. As the inventor, Said Dajani, explains: \"The screensaver is a virtual scrapbook - a carer and person with dementia can work..."}

Global Ideas Bank was at the Skoll World Forum of Social Entrepreneurship the other week, under our alter ego. One of the themes was 'social innovation' which meant, in this context, discussing different routes to achieving social change (rather..
Topics: Creativity, Ideas

{"title":"Which type of innovator are you?","post_url":"http:\/\/globalideas.blogs.com\/the_global_ideas_blog\/2007\/04\/which_type_of_i.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/globalideas.blogs.com\/the_global_ideas_blog\/index.rdf","author":null,"date":"2007-04-10 02:19:31","summary":"Global Ideas Bank was at the Skoll World Forum of Social Entrepreneurship the other week, under our alter ego. One of the themes was 'social innovation' which meant, in this context, discussing different routes to achieving social change (rather.."}