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The Program for the Future Challenge (http://www.programforthefuture.org/challenge) is a global search to find the best new ways to collaborate. Inspired by the vision of computing pioneer Doug Engelbart, who laid the foundations for today's best collaboration and computing methods, we're looking for the next generation of these tools.

The search is carried out in the form of an annual design contest, prize, and localized conferences.

If it's an idea or tool that helps people work together - solve difficult problems together - or make better decisions together, it should be part of Program for the Future.

Founded by a group of Engelbart scholars and admirers in 2008, the challenge seeks to reward improvements that can advance the way we work and use innovative methods. Entries in the challenge range from online software tools to exemplary local community groups. New ideas, even simple ones, will form the basis for the next wave of  innovation. Program for the Future is the international challenge to find them.

The program is anchored with The Tech Museum in San Jose CA and supports its Tech Virtual project, an online platform for creating open source museum content. Participating museums are encouraged to develop exhibits about these innovations.

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Roqua Montez
Senior Manger Public Relations
The Tech Museum of Innovation
(408) 795-6225
rmontez@thetech.org

Analisa Schelle
Ogilvy PR
(415) 677-2721
Analisa.Schelle@ogilvypr.com

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Articles About Program for the Future

01/30/10: San Jose Mercury News: Honoring a creative force in high tech: Douglas Engelbart turns 85
12/9/09  KCommunity - India: Note on Program for the Future - Global Challenge
11/17/09 The Hindu: Program for the Future Launches in Mysore
7/22/09,  Photos from Engelbart Hypothesis book release: http://figleaftechnologies.com/
7/21/09,  SJ Mercury News: Computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart visiting San Jose's Tech Museum
7/4/09,    Shaping Youth: Program for the Future.org: Human/Media Tool Systems Timeline
7/4/09,    NextNow Member Blog: Program for the Future Challenge 2009-2010 schedule updated
6/15/09,  Museum 3.0: This week at Tech Virtual - Program for the Future and Citilab Barcelona
5/23/09,  Geospatial News from the Sunburned Surveyor: Where 2.0: Interview With The Tech Museum of Innovation
5/05/09,  Greenbiz.com: Tom Malone on "Can Collective Intelligence Save the Planet?"
4/16/09,  Holistic ICT for EcoLiving: The Program for the Future Challenge (Inspired by Doug Engelbart)
4/7/09,    Tinker: Program for the Future Global Challenge
4/1/09,    Innovation Contests: Program for the Future Design Challenge
3/12/09,  Shaping Youth Blog: Doug Engelbart Supports Shaping Youth by Offering Digital History, by Amy Jussel
3/7/09,    Bill Kerr's blog: kay and van dam discuss engelbart's ideas
3/2/09,    Continuing the Conversation: from Mei Lin
3/1/09,    Communications of the ACM, 52:3 (2009), p. 21: A difficult, unforgettable idea.  By Karen Frenkel
2/1/09,    NextNow Collaboratory: Program for the Future Challenge.  By Claudia Welss.
1/3/09,    Scale Independent Thought: Visioning Collective IQ, By Bonnie DeVarco
12/11/08, Shaping Youth: Program for the Future.org: Human/Media Tool Systems Timeline, By Amy Jussel
12/9/08,  Sing Tao: 滑鼠之父：不妨多發夢_新聞頁_北美新浪網
12/9/08,  SD Times: Collective intelligence, 40 years after the Mother of All Demos, By Alex Handy
12/9/08,  The Civic Fabric: Collective Intelligence and the Zoo – a challenge for educators and philanthropy, By John
12/9/08,  Info World: Collective intelligence pioneer hailed, By Paul Krill
12/8/08,  Wirearchy: Fractal Is As Fractal Does … Emergent Forms of Organisation Structure?, By Jon Husband
12/9/08,  Learning in a Flat World: Strategic Thinking and Strategic Resources , By Britt Watwood
12/9/08,  The Hybrid Vigor Institute: Innovation, Collaboration and Engelbart’s ‘Unfinished Revolution’: Collective Intelligence, By Denise Caruso
12/9/08,  JohnWilker.Com: Community, Code, Randomness: Community on and off line, By John Wilker
12/9/08,  InternetNews: Beyond Collaboration, Collective Intelligence?, By David Needle
12/9/08,  NewFactor Network: The Humble Computer Mouse Turns 40, By Richard Hammond
12/9/08,  Aldissandmore: Today is the 40th anniversary of the first node in the network, By Aldissandmore
12/8/08,  TBD Consulting – Learning Technology: Second Life Workshop: Program for the Future 12/8 – 12/9, By Michael Abrams
12/8/08,  Wired Gadget Lab: Silicon Valley Conference Aims to Raise the Planet’s IQ, By Dylan Tweney
12/8/08,  SD Times: Wild Dr. Engelbart Caught on Tape, By Alex Handy
12/8/08,  Program for the Future: Day 1, By Peter S. Magnusson
12/7/08,  The Observer: As the mouse squeaks to a 40th year, its creator roars on, By John Naughton
12/7/08,  Traction Software: Forty years after the Mother of All Demos, By Greg Lloyd
12/6/08,  NMC Campus Observer: Attend Program For the Future Doug Engelbart Recognition in SL, By Alan Levine
12/5/08,  Creative Commons: Creative Commons and Collective Intelligence/Program for the Future, By Mike Linksvayer
12/4/08,  The Click Heard Round the World: The Woz, Peter Norvig, Thomas Malone at “Program for the Future” at The Virtual Tech December 8-9, By Rik Panganiban
12/3/08,  Good Morning Silicon Valley: The billion mouse mark and the latest on Doug Engelbart’s tale, By John Murrell
12/2/08,  ZDNet: A 1968 computer demo that changed people’s lives, By Tom Foremski
12/2/08,  The Innovation Journalism Blog: Come Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Engelbart’s “Mother of All Demos”, By David Nordfors
11/29/08, The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop: Program for the Future Conference, By Rob Stephenson