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24 hour thinking

What do we want to find out?

24 hour thinking involves bringing together people from different organisations/sectors to brainstorm ideas into practical solutions over a short period of time.

The need to “strengthen innovation connectivity” has been highlighted the Kent Innovation Strategy consultation with proposals around inviting groups to mind-map ideas on respond to key issues, facilitated by entrepreneurs. We want to review new platforms and processes for the development and sharing of ‘green shoots’ activities to improve the re-use and adoption throughout KCC and enable the “innovative connectivity” mentioned above by reviewing and developing community concepts. We will focus on the face to face and online development of “24 hour thinking” including how to re-organise teams around projects, in ways that match skills with priorities, allow staff to take time out to develop their own projects1 or broker the development of innovations across services. 24 hour thinking can enable communities to submit actions to a pledgebank either they commit to carry out2 or specific departments commit to deliver3 or test out4 and empower groups to apply5, demonstrate6 vote7 for innovative funding.

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Tithes of working time model used by Google http://www.pledgebank.com 3 http://www.showusabetterway.com, http://www.appsfordemocracy.org, http://www.tec.gov.sg/TEC%20Home/home1.htm, 4 Innocentive, X Prizes, Big Green Challenges, Innovation Challenge in Mental Health 5 Community Development Fund’s Grassroots Grants, Ashoka Changemakers, Case Foundation’s Make It Your Own Awards, Nevada Community Foundation and the Omidyar Network 6 Thanet College’s competition. 7 ITV/Big Lottery Fund competition “The People’s 50 Million” and http://www.myfootballclub.com 2

We will explore how 24 hour thinking can be focused on specific challenges groups want to tackle.

How can you be involved?

If you are researchers/consultants, like in university based innovation labs or bridging foundations, we would like to explore how we could capture together of the impact of 24 hour thinking on a group of staff or citizens If you are innovators, like third spaces, exchanges, mobile units or citizen teams, we would like to explore how we could test these out with a group of staff or citizens as part of a “24 hour thinking” session

If you are organisations in sectors who have used these tools, like inhouse & spin off teams, accelerators and support for innovators, we would like to share the learning and organise a joint “24 hour thinking” session with you

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What resources do we need?

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