Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Over There


72 hours of no sleep...

2,700 participants...

1,200 ideas...

$15,000 in prizes...

Kluster
is a a community-driven platform to get ideas heard. It offers the opportunity to contribute your ideas and have others help build off of them. It was announced at this year's TED conference.

To kick things off, they had a 72 hour challenge to create a product, any product, that may change the world. Lofty goals, to be sure. But what they developed is certainly intriguing.

The game is called Over There and is based on the 2006 talk by prominent American philosopher, Dan Dennett. There are 21 stops on the route that correspond to 3 types of cards: chances, actions, and questions.

The idea behind the game is that different organizations are able to customize the cards to help raise awareness for their cause.

The website is a brilliant concept, and I'm excited to see how organizations may use the game as a platform to raise awareness. As well, if you haven't already visited, the TED Conference website offers hours and hours of speeches and demonstrations from some of the world's greatest minds. Click through and expand your mind.

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