I know that I’ve been very quiet since August, but I’m still working on an idea that came out of Project Red Stripe. I’m also back in my day job as CIO at The Economist Group and as a sort of close to the project, [...]
I know that I’ve been very quiet since August, but I’m still working on an idea that came out of Project Red Stripe. I’m also back in my day job as CIO at The Economist Group and as a sort of close to the project, [...]
I’ve been using Gmail for domains for seven months for Project Red Stripe and it’s been a bit like the beginnings of a romance. First of all, every day you find something great about it that you didn’t know before. Then every week.
And then this….
You can create pseudo addresses. What’s [...]
Since Project Red Stripe officially ended, there’s been some discussion in the blogosphere about what we did and how we should have done things differently. As I mentioned, I’m writing up our experiences and you’ll be able to read about what did and didn’t work for us soon. But I [...]
During the course of Project Red Stripe we have come to realise that assessment, reassessment and change are natural parts of the innovation process. As part of this process – and with some regret – we have decided that we had to move on from Lughenjo.
We went public with Lughenjo [...]
People may get ever busier, but they also appear to find more time to volunteer. Witness the plethora of studies that saw the numbers of people donating their time reaching record numbers, particularly in the US. To most experts this is the result of the terrorist attacks of 2001. Not [...]
One place to start gauging the supply for our skills exchange – meaning volunteers who offer services – is to look at offline volunteering. In recent years, particularly in the US and the UK, this has reached record levels. In both countries, nearly 30% of adults volunteer. In the US, [...]
By now if you submitted an idea to us you should have received your six months subscription to Economist.com.
We wish you happy reading and thank-you once again for taking the time to put together so many well thought out ideas.
With hindsight getting your permission to publish all the ideas [...]
If you live in the US or the UK, it feels like the answer should be “no”. In these countries, it feels as if there are now as many of them as pet food-selling start-ups during the dotcom boom. To mention only a few: VolunteerMatch, NetworkForGood, Idealist [...]
After four and a half months of sweat and toil we are pleased to announce our idea:
We are developing a web service that harnesses the collective intelligence of The Economist Group’s community, enabling them to contribute their skills and knowledge to international and local development organisations. These business minds will [...]
When you receive a generous gift, you don’t usually turn around and sell it.
So why, then, would we want to make money from a website on which people are supposed to donate their time to solve development problems? Such an approach, one might argue, is bound to fail because volunteers [...]
I’m sure you’re all thinking ‘Hey Project Red Stripe, why the silence?’. To tell you the truth we wrestled a bit (not literally) before we stopped writing our blog. At the time we certainly believed that - as Ludwig said in his blog post -‘going public now would almost [...]
I was trying to think of a smart title for this post, but gave up because it doesn’t need one - Google Maps is already smart enough.
Earlier on in our project I asked each of the team to create a map [...]
Thanks again for submitting your idea to Project Red Stripe, the small team set up by The Economist Group to develop innovative services online. We’re now done sifting through and further developing the ideas sent in - and are about to make the decision on which of them we will [...]
The eighth (and last) in the series on the ideas we received
“C’mon, this is obvious. Social networking site for subscribers to The Economist”, writes Vinay Gupta, in response to our invitation for idea submissions. Yet even though social networks are all the rage online, we did not receive many [...]
Patrick Tullmann drew my attention to zefrank.com. I guess this is what happens when you live in China and your bandwith is not that great - you miss out on something where you thought, “hey, how come I’m just finding out about this now?”. I remember when the [...]
The seventh in the series on the ideas we received
As I’ve written previously, I think data is fun. Understandably a lot of the submissions revolve around data, and the possibilities in this area are massive. With a ton of the stuff in Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) vaults [...]
The sixth in a series on the ideas we received
We’ve been well impressed with the ideas that we have received. While many people sent in short ‘thoughts’, others made a great effort to write clear and concise descriptions of their ideas. Again, we felt that there would be many Web [...]
I suspect that this is a one day only offer.
There are some pre-requisites:
Here are some screen [...]
The fifth in a series on the ideas we received
“Wiki” got the largest label on our idea submission form, which has now simply changed to be a “tag cloud” of the idea categories submitted. For those out of the [...]
