Overview:

This page aims to conduct a quick “environmental scan” and find other platforms that are in a similar realm as P4A. The main objective of this quick investigation is to find out what has been done to date, where these services fall short, how they do or don’t address edge use cases and diverse needs.

Platforms:

Open IDEO:

Backend Process (Between IDEO and Business Partners):

• Challenges are created
• Evaluators are found
• Project is announced and people are invited to participate

• Progress is documented

• Realization of the final solution

Frontend Process (Between IDEO and Participants)

• Participants sign up for challenges
• Preliminarily information/research provided by IDEO
• Share ideas and collaborate with other members
• Voting for ideas
• Finalize an idea
• See the final idea in production
• Get feedback from users and see the product's impact

Pros & Cons:

• Pros: Since projects are curated, they all have funders, evaluators and people who dedicate their time and energy to work on those projects

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