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About Ideasproject

Welcome to IdeasProject!

IdeasProject is an online community for everybody from all around the world to brainstorm. It enables the two-way exchange of ideas between users and   developers around innovation powered by Nokia.

 

IdeasProject is founded on philosophy of democratized innovation and idea crowdsourcing. We believe that users are able to innovate products and services for themselves and that user-centered innovation offers great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce  for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their, often very imperfect, agents. Moreover, individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed and freely shared by others, which leads us to open innovation, another principle of IdeasProject. Read more about idea crowdsourcing from a white paper The Promise of Idea Crowdsourcing – Benefits, Contexts, Limitations written by researchers from Stanford University and Imperial College London.

 

Open innovation encourages companies to embrace ideas from outside to  strengthen the viability of its products in the market. Users like we and you are sharing ideas with different players like companies, developers, experts, NGO's and all who can help in realization of  ideas. By the same token, ideas developed within the company that are  not  being used should be shared freely with the public, e.g. with application developers and start-ups.

 

If you are interested to patent your ideas together with Nokia, with monetary compensation,  please visit www.inventwithnokia.nokia.com.

 

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At IdeasProject, ideas do not expire or get "old." That’s because an idea may be presented before the market is ready, and user acceptance or   technology simply has to catch up. For these cases, IdeasProject plays the role of a treasury for ideas.

 

If you have an idea, don't be shy. Enter the spotlight, join the conversation and create together. Your idea might become the next Big Bet!

 

Best regards,

 

IdeasProject team:

Pia, Heli, Fatih, Rupesh, Juha, Shamayel

@IdeasProject in Twitter

FAQ

Who owns the idea?

You  own the ideas you have shared, as well as any other written contributions including comments. Similarly, other contributors own all  of their contributions.

 

However, open innovation is a  two-way street, which means that by participating you’re inviting all  who participate, including Nokia, to utilize your idea. You, in turn,  are invited to utilize, build on, and even contribute other ideas with your own. While this also means that others can use your idea without  further permission, Nokia has and will continue to recognice the best ideas. Please check the terms of service for further clarification.

 

Please check our FAQ page for more insight into the idea process and for support related queries.

Community Guidelines

  • Before submitting an idea, check to see if a similar one already exists. If so, then consider adding to it: IdeasProject offers a mechanism for letting you know if a similar idea   already exists. This helps minimize repetition on the site. If an idea   has multiple comments and a team of people working actively to improve   it, the chances of it being picked up will be higher.
  • Be respectful of others: The site will be moderated by the community and by the core IdeasProject team. Please don't spam or flame.
  • Be relevant: IdeasProject is dedicated to innovation and crowdsourcing. By drawing   on ideas to improve Nokia's products, services, processes, and identify   business opportunities.
  • Don't steal ideas: If you see an idea you would like to implement, please let the ideator and the entire community know! Consider providing compensation to the ideator and inviting him or her to participate in the implementation process. If a product or service is implemented, please report it here.

Terms of Service

Please see the IdeasProject's Terms of Service.

Privacy Policy

Please see the IdeasProject's Privacy Policy.

In Research

The Promise of Idea Crowdsourcing – Benefits, Contexts, Limitation. A whitepaper written with the quest to understand idea crowdsourcing from the point of view of current scholarly research.

 

Written by:

  • Tanja Aitamurto, Stanford University
  • Aija Leiponen, Imperial College London and Cornell University
  • Richard Tee, Imperial College London

In Media

IdeasProject has been noted in several publications:

 

Service Innovation Yearbook 2011-2012, by the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General:" Idea Crowdsourcing - 12 months wiser" (the whole book to be published in Spring 2012)

http://news.se3er.com/

https://www.stanford.edu/group/designx_lab/cgi-bin/mainwiki/index.php/DesignXFall2011

http://ladygeek.com/archives/2187?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-apps-empower-women

http://www.idisc.net/en/Article.39150.html

http://blogs.nokia.com/nseries/2011/06/20/can-you-make-your-big-ideas-fit-the-small-screen/

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/nokia-crowd-sources-ideas-for-innovative-mobile-apps-at-sxsw-2242287.html

http://dailycrowdsource.com/2011/03/31/arts/image/nokia-crowdsources-ideas-for-mobile-apps/

http://www.mobiiliblogi.com/2011/03/22/nokia-tekee-sovelluskehityksesta-sosiaalista-ideasproject/

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/nokia-s-ideasproject-wants-people-s-app-ideas-to-change-the-worl

http://www.sdo.me/nokia-ideas-project-site-goes-live/

http://telephonino.altervista.org/en/nokia-introduce-ideasproject/

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/site/ideasproject-/wwwideasprojectcomindexjspa/2959

http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=13448

http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=7715

http://www.symbiantweet.com/introducing-ideasproject-from-nokia

http://www.technologyqw.com/1546-nokias-ideasproject-seeks-world-changing-app.html

http://www.cellphonebo.com/craigslist-founder-craig-newmark-says-on-ideasproject-com-the-internet-changes-the-balance-between-authority-and-the-crowd-3848.html

http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/152a03e6#/152a03e6/16 pp.16-17

Service Innovation Year Book 2010 - 2011 by the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General - pp. 107-110 The Usage and the Benefits of Internal and External Crowdsourcing.

http://www.mobilemonday.net/01/2012/mobile-monday-global-launches-online-alliance-platform.html

 

 

Meet us @...

2011

April 12, TIVIT Results and Business Forum www.slideshare.net/tivit, Helsinki, Finland

May 12-14, Mashable http://mashable.com/connect/, Florida, USA

May 17, Social Media seminar http://sosiaalisenmedianseminaarisarja.blogspot.com/, Helsinki, Finland

May 24-25, The Future of Sustainable LIfestyles and Entrepreneurship http://www.future-lifestyles-entrepreneurship.org/, Cologne, Germany

May 30-June 1, Global Forum http://www.infodevgf.net/ , Helsinki, Finland

June 6-7, The Conversational Marketing Summit http://www.federatedmedia.net/events/1/ , NY, USA

June 9, Democrazy? - ICT as a catalyst in democratic processes http://www.spidercenter.org/event/democrazy-ict-catalyst-democratic-processes , Stockholm, Sweden

June 13-14, "Crowdsourcing, innovation and information technology" http://inforte.jyu.fi/events/crowdsourcing, Jyväskylä, Finland

June 15, “European Crowdsourcing Conference” http://crowdconvention.com/, Berlin, Germany

June 21, Nokia Connection 2011 + CommunicAsia 2011, Singapore http://www.nokiaconnection.net/

June 29-30, DLD Women http://www.dld-conference.com/events/event/dld-women11_homepage_aid_2386.html, Munich, Germany (download Pia's presentation)

September, Unesco

September 14-16, PICNIC Festival http://www.picnicnetwork.org/news, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nokia Sep 29, Finnish adult education

October 5, Pure Insight event: Voice of the Customer – Forum, London, UK

-     October 26-27, Nokia World http://events.nokia.com/nokiaworld/, London, UK

Nov 1-2, CrowdConf 2011 http://www.crowdconf.com/, San Francisco, USA

Nov 2, Stanford University, Design X – session, Stanford, USA http://www.stanford.edu/

Nov 11, “New ways to crowdsourcing” with The Association of Finnish Advertisers http://www.mainostajat.fi/mliitto/index.asp

Nov 25, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland http://www.metropolia.fi/en/

 

 

2012

Feb 22-23, Global Innovation Forum, http://innovationforum2012.com/, London, UK

Feb 22-23 CROWDSOURCE 2011: The Mass Collaboration & Distributed Work Executive Summit, Orlando, USA

http://worldrg.com/showConference.cfm?confCode=MW11005

March 14-15 Breakthrough Innovation 2012, Barcelona www.connecting-group.com

March 9-18 SXSW, Austin, Texas http://sxsw.com/

April, Open Innovation Africa Summit