Global Design Challenge

Program for the Future Global Design Challenge

The Program for the Future is also an annual design challenge to find new ideas – even simple ideas – that help people work better and smarter together in some important area of human endeavor.  For more information about the challenge, or to enter, go to
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/program-for-the-future/

   

Anyone can enter a submission for the Program for the Future Challenge.  The call for entrants is to develop a practical method, tool or technology that connects people so that they collectively act more intelligently.

This will be delivered in the form of new ideas – even simple ideas – that help people work better and smarter together in some important area.

The idea can be applied towards any area of human activity – not just technical domains like computing or engineering but also the arts, business, economics, education, government, health, law, philanthropy, science and other spheres.

The entries are collated and archived via The Tech Virtual content platform.
You can start your entry with just a text description entered online at:
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/program-for-the-future

An interactive exhibit or kiosk describing winning innovations will be displayed in museums participating in Program for the Future.

The Top 10 Collective Intelligence Goals Voted at the 2008 Program for the Future Conference 

1. To develop more intelligent forms of collective governance and accountability and responsibility
2. We are excited by the potential of collaborative intelligence to make learning a ubiquitous and lifelong endeavor.
3. We believe that the highest goal of collective intelligence (CI) is the restoration of integrity at the individual, community, institutional, governmental, global levels as well as down to the level of knowledge, ideas and data
4. Collective Intelligence Communities (NIC's) should also value and support dissent.
5. To use social networks and a deeper understanding of our own perceptions and cognitive frameworks to enable more effective collaboration.
6. Make sure CI methods are part of an ongoing process for improvement, not a one-time shot.
7. Design a learning system capable of evolving a life-enhancing world full of creativity, passion, & invention.
8. Cooperatively study and experiment to scientifically understand how people and organizations work and how to improve through feedback (ie. Bootstrap with NIC's).
9. Integrate the human side to identify and solve the right problems - transparently incorporating values and motivations to find common ground out of diversity.
10. Nurture and support access to multiple modal interfaces (e.g. voice, screenless, etc.) to educate next generations.