Idea lab

Swarm Intelligence in action

It's a cliché that jobless have time, but it's less obvious to be aware of the fact that they still have plenty of capacities. And it is not because their skills are unwillingly in idle or unused status, they are not ready for some great ideas. They do have time enough to reflect, review and think about ways to find sustainable solutions for the future. And there is more: as a jobless, you're in the best position to know what's essential and what is just façade.

So let here be no doubt that each of you can develop such ideas. But wouldn't it be great to communicate about your ideas? To get free feedback and free advice in areas you lack knowledge and expertise yourself? To reuse your skills and full capacities in helping each other to evolve to a viable solution? To get more satisfaction and to feel less useless?

By sharing time and skills, as jobless, we can organize and empower ourselves and become more self-reliant. What a wonderful example of mutual benefit, don't you think?

Intellectual Property

All members of this community as well as all donators, challengers and supporters, agree and aknowledge that the author who is the first to formulate, introduce and/or launch an original idea, owns at all times the intellectual property and copyrights. J4J only fascilitates a platform for the exchange of ideas and is in no way responsible for ownership and intellectual property disputes.

Here below, we describe the J4J Idea Lab's process and the lifecycle of an idea, from embryo to a full-blown real world solution.

Overview of Ideas 

• The header shows those idea categories which contain ideas
  Below this listing you can use the dropdown menu to select one of these idea categories
• Add an Idea yourself and choose your category in the presented add form
• Add a review and rate other ideas

Overview of Idea Project Requests

• Add a Request For Project
  • The owner of an idea can request that his/her idea becomes an Idea Project
    
    • Once a Request is posted and results in a Project page, members are notified by e-mail
    • The Site Admin creates a voting block (decision) for this request
  • On a Project page members can:
    
    • Add a review
    • Rate the project
    • Vote on it by taking part in the decision procedure

Overview of Idea Projects

• If a Request for Idea Project gets approved, it will receive its own corner within the site, by means of a public organic group setup
• Members who are willing to help this project can join the group
• From then on the project will organize itself and the original idea owner will be the manager/maintainer of this group

Overview of Start-Ups

• Ideas which have evolved to real-life entities will be listed in this overview
• A short summary will describe each start-up

We have setup an example idea to demonstrate the possible lifecycle of an idea through the Idea Lab.

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