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The Saint Louis River Idea-Slam crowd sourcing good ideas for the Saint Louis River
Citation:
Hollenhorst, T., T. Brown, E. Hill, AND K. Williams. The Saint Louis River Idea-Slam crowd sourcing good ideas for the Saint Louis River. St. Louis River Summit, Superior, WI, March 14 - 15, 2017.
Impact/Purpose:
This abstract is for a poster and facilitated exercise at the Saint Louis River Summit. The “Idea-Slam” will be an idea generating exercise for participants at the Saint Louis River Summit, where participants will be invited to provide their ideas about two questions; 1) How might we better engage students and educators with the Saint Louis River? and 2) How might we employ citizen science for the Saint Louis River?
Description:
As part of the 2017 Saint Louis River Summit, we propose hosting an “Idea-Slam” using software originally developed by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Idea-box is an open source online app/website used to collect and surface ideas from members of an organization, or the public in general. Using the app, users login, view a request or challenge for new ideas, can submit their own ideas and/or view, comment and vote on other previously submitted ideas. Initially we will start with three idea request or “challenges” as listed below. The first will be run prior to the Summit to help generate additional challenges that might be added for the summit depending on the results. Initial Idea Challenges:1. (Prior to summit) If you could ask a large group of Saint Louis River focused scientist, stakeholders, managers, politicians and the public a question about the SLR, what would you ask?2. How might we better engage students and educators with the Saint Louis River?3. How might we employ citizen science for the Saint Louis River?The Idea-box app will be available for users two weeks before the Saint Louis Summit. We will e-mail previous summit participants and others an invitation to participate in “The Saint Louis River Idea-Slam” with clear instruction on how to proceed. During the morning of the first day at the Saint Louis Summit we will make a brief announcement about the Idea-Slam (< 2min.), and invite everyone to participate. This will be complimented with an “Analog” Idea-Slam using flip charts, colored markers and sticky dots (for voting) somewhere near the poster display area. Ideas collected on the flip charts way will also be added to the Idea-box app. On the second day of the conference we will briefly report on the results and provide the opportunity for participants to network and further discuss the most popular ideas as the summit schedule might allow. After the conference, ideas and comments collected during the Idea-Slam will be compiled, summarized and reported on.