Innocentive is a crowd sourcing invention network of corporate or ngo partners who post problems and a completely distributed network of folks who solve them for cash prizes. While many (most) of the challenges are of a very technical nature involving chemical engineering, bioengineering, physics, materials science etc there are, here and there, some problems which fall into the realm of public policy, architecture and design, and programmatic planning. When I see on of these projects I'll post them here to see if we can't crowd source a crowd sourced question. Thanks to Fester at Newshoggers for prompting this post and the series of posts on this issue to follow.
Chicago Public Transportation
Project Criteria
The provided solution should accomplish the following:
The solutions should be in the form of a written document. The document should clearly answer the above questions and fulfill the above criteria. There is no absolute length limit to solutions for this Challenge, although we estimate that the winning solution will be between 2 and 15 pages. Longer, well thought out proposals will also be considered.
This Ideation type of Challenge has a guaranteed award of $5,000 that will be determined exclusively be the Seeker. If multiple solutions are deemed winners, they may be each awarded partial awards totaling $5,000.
The provided solution should accomplish the following:
- Develop a plan to increase public transportation ridership in Chicago to 1 billion rides per year, adding approximately 800,000 new riders to the system.
- Solutions should be have reasonable costs that are explicitly estimated in the proposal
- The use of innovative technologies and strategies encouraged, but should be reasonable.
The solutions should be in the form of a written document. The document should clearly answer the above questions and fulfill the above criteria. There is no absolute length limit to solutions for this Challenge, although we estimate that the winning solution will be between 2 and 15 pages. Longer, well thought out proposals will also be considered.
This Ideation type of Challenge has a guaranteed award of $5,000 that will be determined exclusively be the Seeker. If multiple solutions are deemed winners, they may be each awarded partial awards totaling $5,000.
Rainwater storage system for the developing world
Project CriteriaThe Challenge is to design a very low cost rainwater storage system that can be installed in a developing country. Designs that are modular, adaptable, salvageable or that have multipurpose function are preferred.
This requires only a written proposal.
The proposal, which will be evaluated by the Seeker on a theoretical basis, should include the following:
- Identification/Detailed Description of a rainwater storage system that can meet the technical requirements as explained above.
- Rationale as to why the Solver believes that the proposed design will work. This is important for an acceptable solution. This rationale should address each of the Technical Requirements described in the Detailed Description and should be supported with relevant examples and literature citations if applicable.
- Cost estimates of all aspects of the design as explained in the requirements above.
- Detailed drawings of your design
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