{"id":380,"date":"2011-06-27T06:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T22:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=380"},"modified":"2011-06-27T06:11:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T22:11:31","slug":"foresightinnovation-at-scale-magnetic-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Foresight\/innovation at scale – Magnetic South"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the weekend I was interviewed on Radio New Zealand about a initiative to forecast the future of Christchurch (my home town that has been devastated by a series of earthquakes since Sept 2010). It was called Magnetic South<\/a> and was a version of the Foresight Engine developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto.<\/p>\n

It’s a way of scaling public engagement so that ideas can not only be submitted, but can also be built upon in a transparent manner.\u00a0 The software also adds a game layer which turns the initiative from something potentially dry, into something that becomes compelling and addictive.<\/p>\n

Magnetic South went extremely well, with over 8000 ideas submitted, built upon and improved by collaboration from the time the game commenced.<\/p>\n

You can see the threads of the game here<\/a>, where some very sharp visualisation enables the tracking of individual ideas as the are commented on and built upon.<\/p>\n

Although I was the one that was interviewed, kudos needs to go to Richard Gordon<\/a>, CEO of Landcare Research <\/a>who backed the game, Bob Frame<\/a> who drove it (and who took some conversations we had a couple of years ago to places that I didn’t expect) and Stephanie Pride<\/a> who got very little sleep for the 5 weeks prior to the game, and during the game itself.<\/p>\n

(However my interview did cause a hiccup in the process, when Radio NZ listeners took the chance to logon in such numbers that the server in Silicon Vally crashed the game prematurely.)<\/em><\/p>\n

You can hear the full interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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