Open Collaboration Projects

Since OpenKollab is an open collaboration project, it's a good idea to keep track of other open (mass) collaboration projects. We can learn from others, and it might also lead to collaboration projects opportunities with others in due course.

In building this list, we should give special consideration to tracking 'projects' as opposed to knowledge repositories, since the Wikipedia model is well understood. What we want to identify are projects that attempt to leverage collective intelligence with respect to bringing about specific outcomes - are goal driven.

IdeaConnection

Open Australia

Globe and Mail Policy Wiki

Encyclopedia of Life

Project: Packard Foundation Wiki for Developing Granting Strategy

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URL: nitrogen.packard.org

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Nitrogen Pollution and Agriculture:

A Collaborative Strategy Forum hosted by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Given the scale of the threat associated with nitrogen pollution and the limited progress in addressing this threat, the Packard Foundation is exploring opportunities for philanthropic investments to contribute to solutions. The Foundation has created this forum because, oftentimes, the most innovative solutions and strategies are created when people with diverse and insightful perspectives have the opportunity to collaborate. This site will be accessible until May 10th. To read more about the project, click here.

Project: UN Habitat Jam

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URL: UN/IBM Habitat Jam, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_Jam

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Habitat Jam was a massive online event organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), the Government of Canada and IBM. It was held on December 1-4 2005 to help solve urgent problems of the world's cities.

Habitat Jam was conceived to set the stage for the World Urban Forum 3 conference, which will be held in Vancouver in June 2006. Ideas collected through the Jam will be used to define themes and shape discussion topics for delegates attending the conference. Participation in Habitat Jam was open to public and private-sector organizations and individuals around the world with an interest in urban issues.

Project: The Millenium Project

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URL: www.millennium-project.org/

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The Millennium Project of WFUNA is a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgements from its several hundred participants to produce the annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, and special studies such as the State of the Future Index, Future Scenarios for Africa, Lessons of History, Environmental Security, Applications of Futures Research to Policy, and a 700+annotated scenarios bibliography.

Project: Source Forge

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Description: Mass collaborative environment for the development of open source software.Mass collaborative environment for the development of open source software. .

Project: Innocentive

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URL: http://www.innocentive.com

Description: Our Mission is to offer alternative and authoritative resource of free, entertaining, quality Online Literature, and one stop environment for everyone looking not only for good reading experience, but also, for the opportunity to shape that experience by taking active role in its creation.

Project: Second Film

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URL: http://www.makeliterature.com

Description: Our Mission is to offer alternative and authoritative resource of free, entertaining, quality Online Literature, and one stop environment for everyone looking not only for good reading experience, but also, for the opportunity to shape that experience by taking active role in its creation.

Project: Make Literature

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URL: http://www.innocentive.com

Project: Story Mash

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URL: http://storymash.com/

Description: StoryMash, the future of collaborative fiction. A creative writing community for authors, amateur writers, readers and anyone interested in collaborative fiction and collaborative creative writing.

Project: Innocentive

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URL: http://gw.innocentive.com

Description:Sustainable breakthrough innovation is today's single most important requirement for growth and profitability. InnoCentive gives you the innovation edge you need to be competitive in even the most challenging economic times, with:

Bigger Breakthroughs. Unleash the collective power of InnoCentive's worldwideMarketplace with over 180,000 of the brightest minds working to help you build a better product.
Faster time to market. With thousands of minds worldwide working on a problem simultaneously, find solutions faster than with in-house R&D resources alone. Get up to speed quickly with ONRAMP
Lower costs. Redefine the economics of innovation by paying only for success. Find hidden and underutilized talent within your company with InnoCentive@Wor

ENTERPRISE OPEN COLLABORATION PROJECTS

Project	Description
Innocentive http://innocentive.com
GlobalSight http://globalsightl.com	GlobalSight is a collaborative, open source initiative to develop a flexible and sustainable Translation Management System (TMS) that leverages the best ideas and addresses the true needs of the industry. GlobalSight embraces an ecosystem of enterprise clients, translators, language service providers, technology suppliers, universities, research institutions and individuals alike!
Blade http://blade.org	Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the development and adoption of open blade server platforms. The organization was established in February 2006 to increase the number of blade platform solutions available for customers and to accelerate the process of bringing them to market. From eight founding companies, Blade.org has grown to nearly 100 members including leading blade hardware and software providers, developers, distribution partners and end users from around the globe.
Syndicom http://syndicom.com/	Syndicom, Inc. specializes in developing innovative collaboration environments for education, research and design in the healthcare industry. Syndicom collaboration environment is founded on a community of practice which consists of individuals who interact with each other under a set of behavioral protocols to develop, combine and share knowledge in order to achieve common goals.
Global Food Banking Network http://www.globalfoodbanking.org	Inspired by Feeding America -- and with the support of the world's largest national food bank networks -- The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) was established in January 2006. Our mission is to alleviate world hunger. We do this by supporting food banks and food bank networks where they exist, and by working collaboratively to create them in communities where they are needed. We work in countries that make up nearly a third of the world's total undernourished population.
The Alzheimer Research Forum http://www.alzforum.org	The Alzheimer Research Forum, founded in 1996, is the web's most dynamic scientific community dedicated to understanding Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.
Innovation Exchange http://www.ixc.com.au/home.html	The InnovationXchange is a leader in the practice of open innovation. The IXC Intermediary service offers a secure platform for organisations to share confidential information and ideas for tangible business and research outcomes.
CaBIG https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/overview/	caBIG^® stands for the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid^®. caBIG^® is an information network enabling all constituencies in the cancer community – researchers, physicians, and patients – to share data and knowledge. The components of caBIG^® are widely applicable beyond cancer as well.
NineSigma http://www.ninesigma.com/	NineSigma is the most experienced and advanced Open Innovation service provider in the world. Founded in 2000, NineSigma has been offering open innovation solutions long before it was an accepted management practice.
P&G Connect and Develop https://www.pgconnectdevelop.com	Do you have a game-changing product, technology, business model, method, trademark, package or design that can help deliver new products and/or services that improve the lives of the world's consumers? Do you have commercial opportunities for existing P&G products/brands? If so, we'd like to consider a partnership
Misscha http://www.misshaus.com/pageControl.php?page=index	A Korean beauty products company that sources product ideas from its clients via (http://www.realinnovation.com/offsite.asp?A=Fr&Url=http://www.beautynet.co.kr/). It has now garnered 40% market share in it`s segment.
Mondragon http://www.usw.org/media_center/releases_advisories?id=0234	The United Steelworkers (USW) and MONDRAGON Internacional, S.A. today announced a framework agreement for collaboration in establishing MONDRAGON cooperatives in the manufacturing sector within the United States and Canada. The USW and MONDRAGON will work to establish manufacturing cooperatives that adapt collective bargaining principles to the MONDRAGON worker ownership model of “one worker, one vote.”
Peugeot	Held an open competition requesting submissions for car designs http://www.cardesignnews.com/site/home/whats_new/display/store4/item159465/
Threadless http://www.threadless.com/	The shirt retailer Threadless sells merchandise online — and now in a physical store, in Chicago — that is designed interactively with the company's customer base
YourEncore http://www.yourencore.com/	YourEncore is a network of retired and veteran scientists and engineers providing our clients with proven experience to help accelerate their pace of innovation. Spun out of P&G Connect and Develop