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Virtual Ecosystem Collaboration

The best team will be awarded public recognition and an option to pitch the idea to global representatives for a pilot project.
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Open Ecosystem Network is looking for the most innovative communication solutions for improving collaboration in virtual ecosystems.

It’s often said that people only know what they know. But if we could not communicate, and by doing so share experiences and ideas…what would life be like?

It is through communication that we understand each other and share meaning. Today, effective and efficient communication practices are at the core of the growing gig economy. Change is faster than ever, requiring more and more effective means of continuous learning and sharing of new information to those who need it in their work and projects. The people who are capable to get the best out of the digital communication possibilities are bound to succeed!

This challenge calls on you to raise the visionary ideas of collaboration solutions, tools, techniques, methodologies and best practices - required for people to know what they are expected to know and to support lifelong learning.

We need your imagination and passion to find solutions that will allow people from all around the world, working in different timezones, evolving in different industries, sharing different cultures and languages, to easily connect, share and learn from each other.

Nokia is looking for proposals with a clearly defined concept in a form of a business canvas (see e.g. Project questions in Open Ecosystem Network). Challenge submissions with clearly defined parameters will be viewed more favourably (e.g. schematic diagram showing the architecture of the proposed solution).

Built on the principle of data democracy, Open Ecosystem Network shakes up traditional business models and proposes a truly new way of working with different ecosystems from different industries. Open Ecosystem Network empowers individuals like you to become the next generation of co-creators. Developers, subject experts, start-ups, business incubators, universities, budding entrepreneurs – whoever you are, as long as you’re passionate about innovation, want to share ideas and find the right people to develop them with.

The Open Ecosystem Network team will review all submissions to find the best ideas: assessing innovativeness, feasibility, scalability, and convenience. The best teams will have the opportunity to become awarded with public recognition in Open Ecosystem Network, will be offered to pitch their idea in front of global reprentatives evaluating the possibility for piloting their solution with the Open Ecosystem Network. Feedback will be provided to each proposal.

Ideas are free for everyone to use, but the IPR for any software codebase or documents produced during the competition will stay with the team. The Challenge host has the first right of refusal to negotiate further collaboration with the team to purchase or continue working on the project initiated during the challenge.

Who can create a challenge?

  • If you want to publish a challenge on the NokiaPartners - Open communities and get support from the community to solve your problems, you first need to be registered on the platform. Then you need to contact the NokiaPartners - Open communities administrator in the Community section. They will create the challenge for you. Search for “admin” in the Community section, and click on “Nokia Admin” to contact and ask for your challenge to be created.

 

How do I submit an answer/proposal?

  • To contribute to a challenge, first open the challenge page, and then click on the "start proposal" button on the right-hand-side. A new page will appear with different text fields to fill in and attachments to include. You can also link to an existing project you have previously created on the platform. Once you have finished, click on submit.
  • If you save as draft, your submission will not be completed and will not be submitted to the challenge owner.

 

What happens once I submit?

  • Once you have submitted your proposal, your ‘Challenge Submission Form’ becomes accessible by the creator or the challenge, who can see and edit your proposal. Through the challenge page, only the owner of the challenge can see the different proposals submitted against his/her challenge. It is up to the challenge owner to inform participants about decisions and potential next steps.
  • To note, when you save a submission as draft, it is not submitted to the challenge owner.

 

Who can see my proposal?

  • The owner of the challenge, the submission review committee, and the NokiaPartners - Open communities Administrator team are the only ones who can see your proposed ideas and solutions to the challenge.

 

What happens if my proposal is successful?

  • For each challenge, submission review and selection process is different and the responsibility of the challenge owner. If your project is selected, the owner of the challenge will come back to you with further guidance on the next steps.

 

What happens if it is unsuccessful?

  • For each challenge, submission review and selection process is different and the responsibility of the challenge owner. If your project is not shortlisted, the owner of the challenge will inform you using the messaging features of NokiaPartners - Open communities. Your proposed ideas will then be removed/deleted from challenge submissions.
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