The Global Ideas Bank's origins lie in the
Institute for Social Inventions {{short description, Think tank for improving quality of life
The Institute for Social Inventions was a think tank set up in 1985 to publicise and launch good ideas for improving the quality of life. Its founder Nicholas Albery (1948–2001) sought ...
, which was set up in 1985 by
Nicholas Albery
Nicholas Bronson Albery (28 July 1948 – 3 June 2001) was a British social inventor and author, was the instigator or coordinator of a variety of projects aimed at an improvement to society, often known as the alternative society.
Early life and ...
, social inventor and visionary. From small beginnings (a network of inventors, a quarterly newsletter), the Institute grew into a full-fledged organisation under his leadership: producing an annual compendium, running social inventions workshops and promoting creative solutions around the world. It was part of the first
European Social Innovations Exchange
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* ''European'', an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to Europe
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. In 2001, the institute was awarded a
Margaret Mead Special Recognition Award
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for "community creativity for a new century"
In 1995, the Global Ideas Bank (originally suggested by an American correspondent, Gregory Wright) was first established online, and has since become the name for the entire project's work. Through the work of several volunteer programmers and technical wizards (especially Flemming Funch of the New Civilization Network), new features were added: online submission, voting systems, categorisation, a message board, and so on.
See also
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Ideas bank
An ideas bank is a widely available shared resource, usually a website, where people post, exchange, discuss, and polish new ideas. Some ideas banks are used to develop new inventions or technologies. Many corporations have installed internal id ...
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List of UK think tanks
This is a list of think tanks in the United Kingdom.
A–I
* Adam Smith Institute
* Africa Research Institute
* Bow Group
* Boyd Group
* Brand EU
* Bright Blue
* British American Security Information Council
* British Future
* Bruges Group
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External links
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* {{cite news , first=Peter , last=Stanford , title=Nick Temple: Ideas man , date=August 20, 2005 , publisher=The Independent , url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article305040.ece , access-date=June 12, 2006 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711054405/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article305040.ece , archive-date=July 11, 2006 , url-status=dead
Ideas banks
Science and technology think tanks based in the United Kingdom