Program for the Future Challenge

Using collaboration for Open Source Stirling Engine

Using software approaches to a mechanical design including open source collaboration and modular design, to create a low-cost Stirling heat engine. See my project page at: http://sites.google.com/site/openstirlingengine/Home

Collective decision making

The idea is allow large complex decisions to be made in a manner that deconstructs the options and reorganizes the information

Naruto Vs Sasuke

naruto

Mobile Medical Partners

A mobile device based on next-generation cell phone prototypes will collect data related to medicine and occupational safety.

Interactive Voting Board

Participants engage with interactive Voting on an XY grid even in 'no build' areas.

Speakerless Speakers

The concept of this is to send focused sound waves to a single person by modulating the sound wave to match the person's brain wave pattern.

Reputation and Trust in Collective Sensemaking

Reputation and Trust, a complex metric, is a necessary component in collective sensemaking/decision making; the vision is to create a sensemaking game with which to explore reputation and trust metrics.

Webcam Eye

This will be a device that will take up the space of one eye. It will be a fully functional eye, but with a camera and a hard drive. The ability to playback what you saw can be used for a variety of reasons.

Collective Intelligence Device

Create a real life multi-tool

Continuing the Conversation

Silicon Valley economic and social development: the local economy is not doing well, we need to re- think it. A community project to bring people together, not to advocate but provide a platform for advocacy and learning.

BuyersVote.com

BuyersVote.com is wikipedia for product reviews - consumers collaborate to rank products, services, and companies all over the world in one simple interface.

System for invention amplification

A system that applies the power of inventors to existing problem by bootstrapping from known solutions such as from the Internet or from engineering literature and then generate crowd sourced solutions after reviewing previous work.

choice compass

life is about making choices and I propose an online solution to make a informed choice when in need. The idea is an online resource "choice compass

Fair-Share Spending: Transferable Votes for Allocating Common Resources

Adapt Single Transferable Vote (STV) to apply to funding projects with a common resource pool, so that groups of voters are able to spend their proportional fair shares of the resources, while ensuring that only projects with a certain quota of support qualify for public funding.

TAMU09C-Group 11

Make it easier to find community service programs

TAMU09C-GROUP13

The creation of 3D holographic images from words typed in a search or from 2D/3D computer design programs off of your personal computer.

TAMU09C-Group09

A website that enables innovation by allowing people to voice their ideas and opinions on companies and products.

Charity Connect

An online collaborative tool to enable charities and other humanity organisations to map their operations, collectively maximise resources and reduce costs while increasing operational efficiency.

RAMPCOM (Rock Art Museum Prototype Community)

A virtual hub as a tool to facilitate international research, documentation , preservation and collaboration for UNESCO World Heritage rock art sites and other prehistoric rock art sites around the world.

WikiScope

To bring the power of HyperScope (Doug Engelbart's idea) to Wikis. Augment a wiki with several of the nifty features of a hyperscope.

robot for any condition

robot for all condition

Sourcemap

A web tool for understanding where things come from and what they are made of in order to foster an informed discussion around the issues of environmental and social sustainability.

Alternative input device for human computer interface

Create a method of typing using chords to input text to create a flexible mobile solution for text and other analog data.

HealthMap: Global Disease Alert Map

HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health.

GoogleWave as a collaboration tool - facilitate community interactions before, during and after the event.

This projects documents lessons learned and know-how about the use of Googlewave by events/conferences organizers to facilitate discussions before, during and after the event.

Bloomer--Collective Intelligence

Bloomer is Wikipedia Meets Structured Conversations and Topic Maps.

Holoscope

Holoscope realizes Doug Engelbart’s vision in practice and invites the museum visitors into the transformed world it fosters.

Conversational Interface - Our Next Great Leap Forward

The Conversational Interface is the natural language processing platform that all of us will be using, to learn about the world, and how to do all complex things, on all our computers and phones within the next five years.

Transformer

Transformer is a new technique that enables us to essentially design and construct buildings, machines, devices, or other objects that are able to transform into various shapes to suite different users or circumstances.

Dreamfish: a global work cooperative

A global work cooperative, we are building a work world for all that alleviates poverty and empowers the disadvantaged through microenterprise development networking. Women entrepreneurs moving out of poverty, unemployed professionals, elders starting next career, young independents making a difference - All are welcome to dreamfish.

The Synergy Engine

The Synergy Engine, a project of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and its collaborators, is a new internet-based social function for the creation of social synergy through non-linear, exponential interaction of existing and emergent solutions across all domains of human activity, enabling greater levels of collective intelligence, coherent collaboration, and effective action, catalyzing greater synergistic convergence and contributing to a whole-system shift.

Chaordix Crowdsourcing Engine

Chaordix crowdsourcing technology equips any organization for web-based open innovation with products proven to engage members and foster contribution.

Hugging Media

The project showcases a new form of communication for humans which harnesses the power of current generation mobile Internet networks and determine the effectiveness of haptic (hugging) interaction through mobile media for humans and pets.

FREESCHOOL Online Education

The Big Idea of FREESCHOOL is a crowd sourced fully accredited WORLD CLASS online education in the cloud available to “ALL” for “FREE” to include the best teachers in the world, the highest Hollywood quality imaging and effects, organized into content groups that are a full menu of subject matter for classes, as well as ala carte electives.

Digital Taste communication

We introduce a new paradigm for remote taste communication between humans which will open up completely new forms of digital and virtual communications.

Dialog about Dialogs

Work collaboratively to define what tools we need to work collaboratively as well as what social guidelines, processes, or methodologies we need to build and improve both the tools and our ability to imagine them.

FOOD MEDIA

We are creating a new digital food and cooking media for virtual and remote communication. We expect it to radically enhance family bonding and intergenerational communication.

Your Health vs. The Crowd

How does your health compare to thousands of other people? This interactive exhibit will compare visitors' biometrics with all other visitors, and allow people to look up recommendations from the crowd for how to deal with a number of health conditions, drawing on the wealth of data collected at CureTogether.com.

Why are You Here Right Now? - World's first crowdsourced book

"Why Are You Here - Right Now?" is the first book written based on the collective wisdom of one thousand people.

Ideal working conditions

Lets learn from the ants.

Lifebushido Global Triangle Project

Lifebushido Triangle connects people around the world in small groups to create and share life goals and help each other achieve goals in a positive, optimistic, open, sharing, trusting, virtual environment where Anything is Possible.

Harnessing Global Collective Intelligence

Digital open innovation workspace harnessing the power of collective intelligence and resources on a global scale in a web 2.0 user-led environment.

A Continuous Painting: Season of the Sunflower

How to wed the direct contact of outdoor painting with current technology to produce an exhibit whose interaction draws participants back to nature.

Transit Everywhere

Real-time data plus location-based technology are making it possible – for the first time ever – to put public transit top of mind and let riders collaborate to improve and encourage transit ridership; our idea addresses the problems at local levels of traffic congestion, pollution, lack of community bonds – and from a global view encourages a cleaner, greener world with better use of resources and transportation access for all.

The Deliberatorium: Towards Large-Scale Structured Deliberation

Large numbers of people view, comment on, rate, and contribute issues, ideas, pros, and cons for solving a complex multi-disciplinary challenge in a way that enables radically improved signal-to-noise ratios, encourages evidence-based reasoning, and allows effective allocation of community attention.

Intelligent Web: Next-generation internet infrastructure to support collective Intelligence

Suite of advanced technologies augment human cognition by providing meta-level methods and tools to help the world achieve collective IQ through the extensive use of systems automation in a new internet layer called the Intelligent Web.

BerkeleyTIP 'Englebart' Universal Collective Intelligence Enhancement System

The system/toolset to achieve Douglas Engelbart's Collective Intelligence Enhancement goals.