Where people with ideas can share them, These ideas can be simple or highly sophisticated, from the ones which can change someone’s day, to the ones which can change the world.
Where people who need solutions can find them.
Where people can browse ideas, surf solutions, and have fun.
Where companies and institutions can have access to fresh new ideas from people from the outside and to which the access would not be possible otherwise.

 

Help bring out all those ideas from everybody which would normally be wasted if there wasn´t a proper place to share them in.
Democratizing the validation of those ideas.
Ideas and problem solving for all and from all.
 

What is an idea in ideas4all

ideas4all definition of idea: “Any creation by the human mind, from the most simple ideas to the most complex or sophisticated ones, which a person thinks that could change someone’s day or that could change the world”. ideas4all is looking for each and everyone of the ideas.

The Mission

To contribute to the Global Brain by becoming the first global ideas forum, a unique democracy of ideas from simple to sophisticated, that change someone’s day or change the world.
 

Our first contribution is the “One Million Mission”: Ideas4all wants to achieve a World Record gathering in the site one million ideas.

The Vision

To create the Best and Most Complete Internet Community around the World of Ideas.

The Global Brain

Global Brain it’s a metaphor for expressing how people can interact and, by so doing, create a collective intelligence that is greater than the sum of its parts.

The Values Behind ideas4all

ideas4all believes in:

• Global collaboration networks, trends of contribution/sharing and user participation
• Need to surface the global reservoir of ideas
• Every individual is a potential ideator wanting  to express, share, explain, or sell ideass
• Only a fraction of those ideas surface and even less are validated and applied
• The need to bring out ideas and to find talent to innovate in Companies, Governments, Administrations, NGOs, Society and Research and Development Departments

How does it work?

• ideas4all is a democratic community where any and all ideas are welcome. The ideas are validated by the community, not by an “expert committee".

• The only requirement to post an idea is to register. Then the ideator has a wiki to express the idea with text, video, images etc.

• Ideators can invite other people to edit their ideas, to expand the explanation or add images or videos, allowing to collaborate to enhance an idea.  It is also possible to build on an idea, creating a new one inspired on it.

• Brain-fu is an expression of the contribution people have made to the Global Brain. The more ideas, problems or comments a person posts, the stronger the Brain-fu. 

Who is behind ideas4all?

ideas4all is an Anglo-Spanish project. Its founder and CEO is Dr. Ana Maria Llopis.

Ana María Llopis has been one of the first persons to develop projects in the internet: she was founder of Openbank (number one Internet bank in Spain and the second in Europe at the time of its launching), she founded the first on-line Broker, Openvalue, a joint project created with Banco Santander with Merryl Linch, and the first multiproduct online sotre, Via Plus.

She is currently a director of the Global Board of ABN AMRO Bank, and BAT, and has been a director at the Board of Reckitt-Benckiser, and has occupied senior positions in corporations as P&G, Playtex, Schweppes and Banesto Bank. She is also Deputy Chairman of the José Felix Llopis Latin American Art Foundation.

She graduated with a Summa Cum Laude Physics Major, and Mathematics Minor at Maryland University, College Park MD, US in 1972, and in 1977 was awarded a Cum Laude PhD and MS in Materials Science Engineering University of Berkeley, California.

Key investors behind the project are from UK and Spain. There are also investors from France, Italy and Belgium.

The business model

Initially the business model is based on the fact that there is a potential market of 250 million people which can share their ideas and that could be made profitable with sponsorships and advertising. Our goal is to capture that 1% of that market in 5 years.  In a second phase, ideas4all will increase the amount of services provided both for users and companies. As examples, people will be able to sell-auction ideas, and companies will be able to present challenges and receive exclusive answers, buy market research or a brainstorm session. ideas4all will make that possible and will receive compensation  for it. Sponsorship will become broader with the creation of categories and the participation of several additional sponsors.

How do people participate in ideas4all?

There are different ways to participate in ideas4all, in fact, there are different names for different participants:

• In ideas4all an Ideator is anyone with an idea, simple or sophisticated, everyone can be an ideator.
• Co-ideators are more than one person having the idea together.
• A Questor is anyone with a challenge, a problem that he’d like to solve.
• A Navigator is a person who browses, votes and comments.

A person can be any combination of Ideator, Questor or Navigator, or even all three.

Why would people share an idea?

There are several reasons for sharing an idea:

• ideas4all is a unique concept:

• Ideas4all difference:

Ideas4all really global and for all vs. niche strategies:

• It is compatible and complementary to the R&D Marketing and innovation departments.
• Ideas4all will provide a private space to the sponsors where they can request, for their exclusive use, ideas for their own challenges/problems.
• It will benefit from the awareness levels and PR generated by ideas4all advertising/PR spend. It is a great opportunity to be associated with the web 2.0 world, and be part of the new ideaconomy and the democratization of ideas
• A relevant percentage of sponsorship funding will be reinvested on product and services of the sponsor, that will be used for promotions to ideas4all user base.
• Ideas4all can be a source of talent, helping to identify creative people with great ideas.
   

What do people think about a project like this

Ideas4all market research in the US and UK shows that:

85% of internet users have ideas and problems that are often wasted because there isn´t an easy way to post them.
 

People will visit and participate on a sharing ideas / problems global Internet site

 

Legal aspects

• Bug/problem/abuse and/or inappropriate content can be reported.