OurDea takes your ideas and my ideas and makes them all of ours.
OurDea is enabled by the iDea server, the website and the iPhone application working together. It is designed to attract, gather, and generate ideas that until now merely harbor in the minds of billions, unvoiced and unsung. These ideas are those inspirations that strike each of us in traffic, in the shower, while doodling, and while griping. Each day we are faced with dilemmas, problems, inconveniences, challenges, idiocies, hurdles, nuisances, and just plain trouble. On most days we simply suffer. Occasionally, a bright and glorious epiphany kicks all clutter aside and we discover a solution, an adaptation, or an alternative that makes all the sense in the world. Unhappily, these eureka moments, these cut-through-the-bullshit lightbulbs, linger and die on the tips of our tongues. Sure, we may bore our friends with our ingenuity, but the substance never gets to the right people.
With OurDea, those discoveries now have a home where the people who can implement these ideas—as well as all those who share and follow them—can find them.
Users of OurDea simply submit their ideas to specific categories. These categories include Science, Health, Earth, Money, Music, Children, Food, Arts, Community, Sports, Education, and Society. If a user knows how best to spend a local budget surplus, they click “Community” or “Government.” If a user knows how best to spend a 3rd grader’s homework time, that user clicks “Education.” If a user finds out how best to grow tomatoes in Tucscon, that user clicks “Gardening.” And so on. The ideas keep coming, addressing both domestic life and global change.
OurDea will collect, catalog, and store the best that we discover and imagine. Contributors and visitors to the website will then rate and comment on the submissions. Better yet, they can spread the ideas. That germ of an inkling of a notion that would once have passed into the ether can now be in someone’s inbox within minutes.
Again, OurDea takes your ideas and my ideas and makes them all of ours.
