Headshift built a social aggregator drawing together innovative ideas across the third sector into a single space. It facilitates connections between people in the third sector (practitioners, innovators, etc), social investors and public sector commissioners to catalyse collaborative innovations. It is a space where people will be able to develop thoughts, ideas and collaborations in open ways and smaller groups.
Feeling supported to innovate
In the public sector, people often don't feel allowed to innovate whilst in the third sector, they often don't feel supported to innovate. Decision-making is radically distributed this however, can create barriers to sustaining and scaling innovation. The online system aims to help to bridge the chasm between the people who buy services and those who use them and create them.
Towards an open collaborative environment
Many of the issues were focused around the cultural dynamics surrounding project development within the third sector; Open innovation vs secretive match-making, wisdom of crowds vs expert judgement, pitching mentality vs co-creation, enabling local connections vs focusing on national excellence. With these in mind we had to develop a platform that mimicked the cultural permissions and trust structures, but worked towards a more open collaborative environment for ideas development and knowledge sharing.
By creating a platform for discussion, bookmarking and filtration we are helping to enable people to connect, discuss ideas, develop concepts and build a critical mass around projects/ideas more easily. It helps people to identify opportunities for collaborative innovation and to work together to begin to exploit them across silos and geographical boundaries.
Thought- and idea-collaborations gain traction
Through tracking the saving, tagging and viewing trends of the users, we are able to market which thought- and idea-collaborations are gaining most traction and attention. This information in turn is represented to users so they can follow the changing importance and awareness of different subjects and issues among different user demographics. The system utilises piping technologies (RSS) to pull in data from a wide range of sources, this also offers the user the option to create their own content in there own personal spaces rather than forcing users to create content within the system.
Feeling supported to innovate
In the public sector, people often don't feel allowed to innovate whilst in the third sector, they often don't feel supported to innovate. Decision-making is radically distributed this however, can create barriers to sustaining and scaling innovation. The online system aims to help to bridge the chasm between the people who buy services and those who use them and create them.
Towards an open collaborative environment
Many of the issues were focused around the cultural dynamics surrounding project development within the third sector; Open innovation vs secretive match-making, wisdom of crowds vs expert judgement, pitching mentality vs co-creation, enabling local connections vs focusing on national excellence. With these in mind we had to develop a platform that mimicked the cultural permissions and trust structures, but worked towards a more open collaborative environment for ideas development and knowledge sharing.
By creating a platform for discussion, bookmarking and filtration we are helping to enable people to connect, discuss ideas, develop concepts and build a critical mass around projects/ideas more easily. It helps people to identify opportunities for collaborative innovation and to work together to begin to exploit them across silos and geographical boundaries.
Thought- and idea-collaborations gain traction
Through tracking the saving, tagging and viewing trends of the users, we are able to market which thought- and idea-collaborations are gaining most traction and attention. This information in turn is represented to users so they can follow the changing importance and awareness of different subjects and issues among different user demographics. The system utilises piping technologies (RSS) to pull in data from a wide range of sources, this also offers the user the option to create their own content in there own personal spaces rather than forcing users to create content within the system.