First Annual "Program for the Future" Global Challenge
The global competition for new tools to improve Collective Intelligence.
The Program for the Future Design Challenge is inspired by the vision of Douglas C. Engelbart, who fifty years ago saw that the big problems mankind
faced were growing faster than our ability to solve them. In response, Dr. Engelbart began his life-long quest to improve our collective intelligence.
It is in that spirit that the Tech Museum of Innovation and the MIT Museum are sponsoring a design challenge to inspire innovators around the world to
build the next generation of tools to augment our ability to think and work collectively.
The Program for the Future is an annual design challenge to find new ideas - even simple ideas - that help people work better and smarter together
in some important area. The challenge is to develop a practical method, tool or technology that connects people so that they collectively act more
intelligently. The challenge embraces all areas of human endeavor - not just technical domains like computing or engineering but also the arts,
business, economics, education, government, health, law, philanthropy, science and other spheres. Winning entries will be featured at The Tech
Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley and MIT Museums.
Winning entries will be selected in March 2010.
The Program for the Future Design Challenge is organized by the Tech Museum of Innovation in collaboration with the MIT Museum, under the supervision
of a distinguished Board of Advisors.
For more information and how to enter please go here
http://thetechvirtual.org/projects/program-for-the-future/