Press Release: Crowdsourcing Against Poverty
Amsterdam, June 18 2009
ThinkTankThursday starts crowdsourcing project against poverty
The free open innovation initiative ThinkTankThursday challenged its community to stride against poverty in a collaborative development project. The big aim: use collective inspiration for a better world! Using the statement “How can WE stride against poverty??”, ThinkTankThursday initiated a collaborative project for the good cause from scratch to execution.
At the website www.ThinkTankThursday.com, initiator Rob Veldt invited everybody to join this initiative: “When we just use our collective knowledge and creativity, we should be able to make a difference together!”. Using its worldwide community of free-thinking members, ThinkTankThursday is not only able to generate a wide range of innovative ideas to solve poverty. Together, the ThinkTankThursday community will also co-create the full project plans and even execute projects using the local presence of its community members!
To make it as easy as possible for everybody to join the project, ThinkTankThursday uses ‘just’ the widely accepted platform LinkedIn for the project. Veldt: “With ThinkTankThursday we aim to simplify innovative initiatives, so we make sure we are present where most of the potential participators are!”. Since the majority of our online participators is already a LinkedIn member they are not obliged to join another community, they just join the ThinkTankThursday-LinkedIn group (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1129637).
“This totally fits the free ThinkTankThursday concept: we aim to simplify innovation, just ‘put the heads together and involve some outsiders!’ is how we would say it”, continues Veldt, “the overall purpose of the ThinkTankThursday initiative is to make use of innovative capacity that’s already there”. ThinkTankThursday stimulates its members to inspire each other and solve innovative cases together. On the other hand it offers a free channel for organizations to solve their innovative challenges by using collaborative knowledge and creativity.
ThinkTankThursday pays specific attention to projects for a better world. Veldt: “not only because those are the projects that could need free inspiration, knowledge and creativity, but also because those are the projects that are most inspiring for our members!”. Win-Win for both parties, while the non-commercial ThinkTankThursday initiative just wants people and organizations to share their knowledge, creativity and inspiration more often!
Editors note:
More information: Rob Veldt, mobile phone +31(0)634501721 or mail rob.veldt@thinktankthursday.com.
Press release as Word document: http://www.thinktankthursday.com/downloads/Press%20Release_crowdsourcing%20against%20poverty.doc
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