Students and educators seeking to understand how best to apply crowdsourcing for open innovation will benefit from new Chaordix program in development
CALGARY, Alberta, April 22, 2010 — ChaordixTM, a provider of managed crowdsourcing communities, today announced the launch of the Chaordix-In-Classroom Educator program to provide open innovation technology and workshops to educators.
"As crowdsourcing gains acceptance as a vital way for organizations to relate to their markets and audiences, it is becoming essential for future leaders to understand how to use this new method of social research and open innovation," said Shelley Kuipers, president and chief executive officer at Chaordix. "We decided there's no better way to support future generations of entrepreneurs, engineers, business leaders, technologists and marketers than offering our capabilities to classrooms of universities and other education institutions worldwide."
Chaordix is inviting in Founding Partners to help craft the program and ensure that it is relevant and valuable for both instructors and students. Already, the National University of Singapore has signed on as a partner, and there is interest from schools across North America, Europe and the Middle East.
More than 20 percent of demand for Chaordix crowdsourcing capabilities comes from universities researching the sociology and science of crowdsourcing, or seeking access to technology to prepare students for new methods of research and business for open innovation.
Leading organizations like IBM, PwC, Procter & Gamble, and Pepsi demonstrate the value of getting crowds of employees, consumers, or partners involved in product and service development, brand creative, and social research on market preference and trends. World-leading science and philanthropic organizations are applying crowdsourcing to achieve breakthroughs in health, energy funding and global development.
About Chaordix
Chaordix specializes in managed crowds for innovation and social research. We enable organizations to engage a crowd via the web to submit, discuss and often refine and rank submissions to discover the most-likely-to-succeed solutions. The crowd may be consumers, employees, partners or other select memberships. The purpose of the crowd is to discover and test market demand and preferences, co-create products and services, solve previously unsolvable technical or R&D problems, and achieve relevant and enduring brands. We provide services to identify, recruit, engage and manage crowds for productive input and deliver the technology that is home to the people that matter most in your market. Find out more about us at http://www.chaordix.com.
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Claudia Moore, VP Marketing
Phone: 403.703.0029
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