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The concept for ideas anywhere was born on the bus on the way to work in the morning.
I looked at all the people doing very little with their downtime and thought it would be great to have them solve important issues facing community organisations by using their mobile phones.

ideas anywhere is distributed problem solving, idea generation and micro-volunteering via text messaging and mobile Internet. Powerful, simple and portable.

Each train, tram, bus, doctors office or public toilet could carry stickers or posters promoting the ideas anywhere service and would be seen by hundreds of thousands of people each day.

Public transport tickets could also feature the ideas anywhere info and phone number and act as a takeaway reminder card of the service. Any location where you have to wait in line such as banks, airports and supermarkets could all display ideas anywhere branding.

How about displaying ideas anywhere details on the big screen at the game and letting fans solve on their way home?

Mobile Internet, android and iphone applications can further enhance the service giving greater functionality, access to editing solutions for working on other media such as translating and tagging archived data.

ideas anywhere establishes a culture of change and engages the entire community in a shared vision for a strategy for continuous innovation.

Help organisations refine processes, reduce expenditure and become more sustainable, develop new programs and services, solve important community issues and extend funding and volunteering opportunities.


Make use of your mind and your downtime. Make a difference. Anywhere. Anytime.

 

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Across the world, mobile phone technologies are proving to be a key tool for those working for social change. Australian communities and the organisations that support them face important issues and need solutions and volunteers.

Great ideas and creative solutions can appear to anyone at anytime so the mobile phone enables you to immediately capture their solutions and send them in to the ideas anywhere service from anywhere in Australia with mobile coverage.

ideas anywhere captures intellectual capital via the minds of commuters and crowds in their downtime. Generative thinking and crowdsourcing meet micro pledging.

This is social open innovation which embarks on a journey every time someone sets foot on public transport. ideas anywhere enables crowds of thousands to send solutions and ideas after sports games, concerts, festivals and other large scale events.

 

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objectives & benefits

Use open innovation and mobile technologies to deliver real solutions to benefit the community and bring about positive societal change.

Develop crisis information services for both reporting and disseminating information.

Remain an open source project that can be freely replicated.

Educational. Teaches diverse idea generation techniques and creative thinking skills.

Benefits

Accessible via any mobile device 24/7 365.

Builds awareness of current issues facing the community and raises the public profile of local community organisations.

Broadcast challenges through the open innovation mobile website and SMS

Enable open innovation participants to submit insights and ideas related to challenges

Support collaborative development of ideas and communication between participants

Localized messages for the challenges posed by community organisations can be promoted via targeted public transport routes ( tickets, stickers, posters, LED message boards).

Unique and positive call to action promotes responses during 'downtime' on public transport or other free times when uses would otherwise be doing very little.

Encourages concise responses in the form of ideas and solutions.

Potential to access thousands of responses from diverse respondents.

Quick and powerful community consultation and feedback tool.

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