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Have you ever had an idea but just did not know how to make it fly? Maybe something that required a skill set you do not have. Modern society has grown to become very protectionist of ideas and sharing them can be costly from a business point of view.
Do not share! Keep it safe! Keep it secret! Copyright it! Protect the idea! Those are the virtual genes of modern businesses in embryo phase. There are however people fighting this meme by opening up, sharing and revealing their ideas in order to let others join them in creating some interesting business and solutions to problems that require just a little good will and understanding to bring to sometimes spectacular fruition.
You may know of the SETI @ Home project. Scientists looking at possible communications from outer space had a problem. They had too much data and too little processing power to crunch it into usable or viewable information. The solution as it turned out was to simply ask the world to dedicate their spare processing power to crunching space noise data into chunks’ of readable information that could possibly flag intelligent communication from space.
Now there are Crowd Sourced projects popping up all over the world. From community banking in India to specialty restaurants in the United States of America and identifying and classifying galaxies, crowd sourcing offers some intriguing solutions to problems that require a hive mind mentality to solve.
Now I have posted on the forum many times about the value of collective intelligence in complex issues. Crowd sourcing seems to be using this phenomenon to the advantage of whichever project uses it. There are some complexities involved in using this strategy including opening up the flow of information and allowing all involved to share (quickly and easily) whatever they have on their minds, but all in all it seems to be doing wonders wherever a crowd is sourced. It might have something to do with the intellectual interest of the parties who do decide to join in and come to the table, but it is powerful and in some cases can cost big settled business a lot of money to combat.
There are a couple of examples of companies who had to fork out truckloads of money to either buy out crowd sourced businesses or create their own more competitive solutions in response to left field competition run by communities of people who can out think many creative departments at top companies.
Look at how one example is approaching it by visiting this link:
http://www.cooltownstudios.com/forums/viewthread/3/
The effort above uses this site to stay in touch: http://www.collectivex.com/intro
If you know of any South African examples, use the comments or forum to share.
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Do not share! Keep it safe! Keep it secret! Copyright it! Protect the idea! Those are the virtual genes of modern businesses in embryo phase. There are however people fighting this meme by opening up, sharing and revealing their ideas in order to let others join them in creating some interesting business and solutions to problems that require just a little good will and understanding to bring to sometimes spectacular fruition.
You may know of the SETI @ Home project. Scientists looking at possible communications from outer space had a problem. They had too much data and too little processing power to crunch it into usable or viewable information. The solution as it turned out was to simply ask the world to dedicate their spare processing power to crunching space noise data into chunks’ of readable information that could possibly flag intelligent communication from space.
Now there are Crowd Sourced projects popping up all over the world. From community banking in India to specialty restaurants in the United States of America and identifying and classifying galaxies, crowd sourcing offers some intriguing solutions to problems that require a hive mind mentality to solve.
Now I have posted on the forum many times about the value of collective intelligence in complex issues. Crowd sourcing seems to be using this phenomenon to the advantage of whichever project uses it. There are some complexities involved in using this strategy including opening up the flow of information and allowing all involved to share (quickly and easily) whatever they have on their minds, but all in all it seems to be doing wonders wherever a crowd is sourced. It might have something to do with the intellectual interest of the parties who do decide to join in and come to the table, but it is powerful and in some cases can cost big settled business a lot of money to combat.
There are a couple of examples of companies who had to fork out truckloads of money to either buy out crowd sourced businesses or create their own more competitive solutions in response to left field competition run by communities of people who can out think many creative departments at top companies.
Look at how one example is approaching it by visiting this link:
http://www.cooltownstudios.com/forums/viewthread/3/
The effort above uses this site to stay in touch: http://www.collectivex.com/intro
If you know of any South African examples, use the comments or forum to share.
Technorati : @, collective, creative, crowd, crowd-sourcing, hive, home, ideas, meme, mind, seti, source, sourcing
Del.icio.us : @, collective, creative, crowd, crowd-sourcing, hive, home, ideas, meme, mind, seti, source, sourcing
Zooomr : @, collective, creative, crowd, crowd-sourcing, hive, home, ideas, meme, mind, seti, source, sourcing
Flickr : @, collective, creative, crowd, crowd-sourcing, hive, home, ideas, meme, mind, seti, source, sourcing