Projects in Share your knowledge to innovate
Appropedia
Communication and media, Creating and innovating, Share your knowledge to innovate, Use open licenses, Use open source tools
A website for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development. A major focus and lens through which these challenges are viewed is that of Appropriate Technology. In particular, the Appropedia philosophy is one of Open Source Appropriate Technology (OSAT), and the site plays an important … Read more
Eco-Index
Creating and innovating, Education, Share your knowledge to innovate
The Eco-Index features reports, studies and public information documents about biodiversity conservation projects, many with maps, data and photographs. The Rainforest Alliance launched the Eco-Index in 2001 to provide the conservation community with a quickly and easily accessible vehicle to share project data and reports, … Read more
Refugees United
Creating and innovating, Maximize your free time, Share your knowledge to innovate, Share your time for the common good
More than 54 million people are living as refugees, internally displaced people or stateless persons – countless families are separated, often never to find each other again due to a lack of infrastructure. Refugees United is a nonprofit organization that developed a web platform and … Read more
Random Hacks of Kindness
Creating and innovating, Share your knowledge to innovate
Random Hacks of Kindness is a community of experts in development and volunteers with a broad set of skills in software development and design, focused on developing practical open source solutions to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation challenges. Since then thousands of volunteers … Read more
X PRIZE Foundation
Creating and innovating, Share your knowledge to innovate
The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly … Read more
Intellectual Ventures
Creating and innovating, Share your knowledge to innovate
Founded in 2000, Intellectual Ventures is building an active market for invention that brings together expertise and capital, and links buyers with sellers. Their goal is to develop a more efficient and dynamic invention economy, establishing an invention capital system. They build, buy, and collaborate to create inventions. … Read more
InnoCentive
Creating and innovating, Share your knowledge to innovate
InnoCentive is a global, online marketplace where organizations in need of innovation–companies, academic institutions, public sector, and non-profit organizations–can utilize a global network of over 225,000 of the world’s brightest problem solvers. Seekers organizations post Challenges on the InnoCentive website in the Open Innovation Marketplace … Read more
Our Mobile Generation (OMG)
Creating and innovating, Share your knowledge to innovate
Our Mobile Generation (OMG) wants to promote sustainability around mobile phones. The objective of OMG is to inspire and to connect mobile phone users to come up with sustainable solutions or ideas that will lead to a more sustainable telecom industry and lifestyle. OMG-members are … Read more
ScienceForCitizens.net
Creating and innovating, Share your knowledge to innovate
ScienceForCitizens.net is a platform, where researchers, organizations and companies offer research projects and citizens can submit and participate. Their aim is to promote a better understanding of science and technology and to satisfy the popular urge to tinker, build and explore science. Whether you are … Read more
PLoS Medicine
Creating and innovating, Share your knowledge to innovate
The peer-reviewed, open-access medical journal PLoS Medicine is committed to making scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. The medical research, covering all kinds of topics, like breast cancer, HIV, genetic risk predictions and more, are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License, … Read more
