A friend of mine is involved with Fellowforce. The concept is that a challenge is posed by a company and then an innovation pitch is put forward to solve it by one of the fellows. There is a place for this I believe, it’s new so the main challenge right now will be getting a critical mass of companies with problems to solve and excellent case studies of people coming together. What I hope is that Fellowforce get through the next years and build up a really strong methodology and ways to deal with both sides. It reminds me a little of Google and Yahoo answer products but with a stronger non-ad supported business model… It could be that problems from high cost territories get answered by lower cost economies, where there is plenty of innovative talent… In the end I believe they will also need to target what Forrester call the “creators” that account for 7% of the Internet, those that create content for others (wikipedia etc.), but with 1 Billion Internet users that is still a big number. Good luck guys.

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