THE GLOBAL IDEAS BANK
Your Ideas Wanted for the Global Ideas Bank!
An International Suggestion Box for socially
innovative non-technological ideas and projects, with £1,000 UK
sterling awards
annually for the best ideas or projects submitted
collected by the
non-profit
charity Institute for Social
Inventions, London, England.
Feedback and more
ideas are very welcome. This Global Ideas Bank is not at present for
patentable ideas or
technological ideas or other product-based ideas - more for ideas
concerning suggested
new services, organisations, laws, constitutions, procedures, ways to
relate, ways to solve
problems, etc. All ideas will automatically be entered for the annual
awards (deadline June
1st each year); and be aware that all ideas submitted may be freely edited
and used in this
Global Ideas Bank and in the Institute for Social Inventions' various
publications. Send up
to a thousand words, adding which section your idea should go in. If your
idea is already
available on the World Wide Web, please send simply an abstract of the idea
(up to 100
words) with an http reference. Please always give your name, address,
telephone and fax
number and e-mail address, to Nicholas Albery at
rhino@dial.pipex.com.
Categorized Sections
Ideas from different sources and publications are here organized in lists
by category.
- Social Innovations - Past and Present
- Children and Education
- Relationships
- Housing
- New Money Systems & Financial Innovations
- Taxation
- Work & Unemployment
- Economics and Business
- Welfare
- Crime & The Law
- Health & Therapy
- Neighbourhood
- Environment and Ecology
- Quality of Life
- Science, Technology and Energy
- Transport
- Communications
- Arts, Leisure & Lifestyle
- International and Developing World
- War & Peace
- Politics
- Spirituality
- Old Age
- Death and Dying
- Promoting Social Inventions
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Ratings
As you are browsing through the ideas, you have the opportunity to rate how well you like each one. The ratings are stored and tabulated to show which ideas are the most popular.
As of 07/01/96, 9023 people have produced 13315 ratings of 1062 ideas out of 1123.
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Published Books On-Line
These are collections of ideas published by the Institute for Social
Inventions. All of these ideas are organized by category above.
The Global Suggestions
Box is an online development of
The Book of Visions
An
Encyclopaedia of Social
Innovations
Edit
ed
by
Assisted by
Valerie Yule
Foreword by>
Anita Roddick
The Book of Visions encyclopaedia was first published in Great
Britain in 1992 by
Virgin Books
an imprint of Virgin Publishing Ltd
The material was collected, typeset, laid out and reprinted in 1995
by
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London NW2 6AA
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Copyright © Institute for Social Inventions 1992, 1993, 1994,
1995, 1996
All royalties from these books go to the Institute for Social
Inventions, a registered educational charity, towards its workshops in
schools and other activities. The Institute is grateful to all the hundreds
of people around the world who freely contributed items and is apologetic
to any whom it failed to trace or acknowledge.
The Global Ideas Bank, the online version of The Book of Visions
encylopaedia, is made available subject to the condition that it shall not,
by way of trade or
otherwise, be lent, resold or hired out or otherwise circulated without the
publisher's prior
written consent in any paper form or with any binding or cover other than
that in which it is
published and without a similar condition including this condition being
imposed upon the
subsequent publisher.
The Book of Visions has been published on the Web with the help of Flemming Funch
and the New Civilization Network.