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Monday 5 July 2010

Crowd brainstorming

I published that in "Whynot" website. I think it is worthy to be published here as well.
Using the crowd brainstorming for the all major problems in the world like climate change, energy, poverty, political resistance.Website can be generated for that to aggregate the all ideas and voting system as well for them about the applicability and the effectiveness.
All nationalities and ages are encouraged to contribute either through internet or SMS's.
Unfortunately crowd wisdom, crowd sourcing and crowd brainstorming is totally underutilized and the innovation is still in the very narrow circle of the specialists.
Based on the theory of probability, it is very possible to have thousands of flashes of genius out of these 50 million monkeys.
Though specialists are empowered by their academic and professional background but they are blinded many times because of too much consideration of the physical and economical constraints. Academic education is teaching the people how to study but not how to innovate or stretch their imagination in the unlimited space of ideas.As a drawback they lose the power of purity and freedom of the mind which is vital part in the innovation.They are boxed in their systematic and conservative approaches to address the problem so they oversee the out of the box solutions.
Amateurs could compensate this part in the innovation process and the economic and scientific maturation of the idea can be pursued by the specialists.Designed for this purpose, the proposed website will provide the unlimited space for all these ideas. Not only that, but it should provide the filtering out of the bad ideas and the maturation of the good ideas till the final stage of a commercial product to cover the full life cycle of innovation by using the millions of brains as developers, planners, sponsors, marketers, .. etc.Ideas are developed through evolutionary course. The smart design of the website could simulate a virtual evolutionary environment for the space of ideas (space of solutions) to eliminate the bad ideas and move forward and mature and evolve the good ideas.
GOM Oil spill is a live example. Two innovative solutions proposed and rejected by the specialists. Centrifugal separators of oil and water and the air vacuum oil suckers from the sand. Both were already experimented and they are effective.
Imagine if you will multiply this effort by thousands or millions. You could have a complete draft or final plan of a viable solution by the smart management of the crowd wisdom.

Instead of having crisis management team only composed of the elite of experts, they will be powered by enormous cluster of millions of processing brains.

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