Davos – collaborative innovation

On Sunday I went down to San Francisco’s Ferry Building to watch the 8 teams of architects participating in “The City of the Future” competition build their models. They’d had 7 days to come up with concepts, 3 hours to build the models (in public), and 15 minutes to present their concept to the [...]

Solving complex problems

(Photo: www.mit.edu. Design by Suzana Lisanti)
Solving complex problems is what some foundations claim to be doing. Many more wish they had the guts to stake this claim, but are perhaps more realistic about what they can do.
I’ve written a lot about crowd sourcing as a possible strategy for philanthropic ideas and insights – now we [...]