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| What's next for the Global Ideas Bank? |
| 06 Apr '09 |
The Global Ideas Bank has embarked on a project which is designed to achieve four things:
• To make the website a place which helps people turn good ideas into social
inventions - with a greater emphasis on 'how to' develop projects
• Rebuild the publishing catalogue
• To migrate the website to a new open source platform, to foster innovation on the site
• And to rebuild the supporter base which the former Institute for Social Inventions (and the current site) used to enjoy.
To achieve this we have just launched a number of projects which will run during 2009.
Project 1: Building the social invention content
There will be more emphasis on the site, and in supporting publications, on the
importance of making social invention happen. On the site we will be developing better information on resources for social invention,
both online and offline - and better ways of sharing it.
We will also be focussing on social invention as we reinvigorate our publishing. The first project here is a new, expanded, and re-named edition of the former 'Problem Solving Pocketbook', which we will publish in an electronic format, while looking at options for hard-format publishing as well.
Project 2: An open source website
The objective is to build an open source platform on wiki- or similar software, and migrate the content from the current proprietary site. We've already developed some proof-of-concept ideas, and plan to improve the ability of GIB users and visitors to improve and develop existing ideas, and to set up virtual groups of social inventors to make ideas happen.
Project 3: Reinvigorating the supporter base
The Institute for Social Inventions was an effective membership organisation in the days when it all had to be done by post. We're going to start rebuilding a base of supporters, both from the ISI's supporters list, and by engaging more actively with the GIB's online contributors. As a first step, this information release will be posted to the site, as well as being mailed to former ISI supporters.
We have raised some modest funding to help support some of this work - the rest will be done by volunteers. There is a small steering group which includes Nick Temple, who used to be the GIB's Director when it was part of the Nicholas Albery Foundation. If you're interested in getting involved in any of the GIB projects, please let us know by commenting on this article or e-mailing glidbk [at] hotmail.com (we are checking it).
Andrew Curry and Nick Temple
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