Our aim is to bring people together to create innovative solutions to place-based problems. The site is therefore centered around the 'challenges' posed by our community. Challenges can be posted by anyone registered on the site, as long as they align to our mission of creating happy, healthy, prosperous and sustainable places.
We have created five themes that cut across our mission: sustainable development, smart mobility, digital connectedness, community wellbeing and inclusivity and place-based innovation and entrepreneurship. These provide structure to the site and allow you to filter content to your interests. Find out more about our themes here.
To get started, register and post a challenge of your own.
How to Contribute a Challenge
Do you face a place-based issue or opportunity that needs innovative solutions? By sharing your challenge, you can tap into the collective expertise of our community and collaborate on impactful, actionable ideas. Here’s how you can get involved:
- Describe Your Challenge Clearly: Outline the problem or opportunity in a way that is easy to understand and provides enough context for others to engage.
- Highlight Place-Based Impact: Explain how the challenge affects your community, organization, or sector and its significance for creating happy, healthy, prosperous, and sustainable places.
- Set Goals: Share what success would look like—whether it’s a specific solution, a range of ideas, or new partnerships.
- Be Open to Ideas: Encourage a variety of perspectives and be ready to collaborate with others who bring fresh insights or approaches.
- Engage Actively: Respond to comments, questions, or ideas posted by the community to foster productive discussions and co-create solutions.
- Leverage Expertise: Draw on the diverse knowledge and resources available within the platform to enrich your challenge-solving process.
- Follow Up: Keep the community updated on how the solutions are being implemented or developed further.
By sharing a challenge, you become a catalyst for innovation and collaboration, driving real-world change in pursuit of sustainable, impactful outcomes. Start posting your challenge today and invite the community to make a difference together!
Bringing a challenge is not the only way to get involved. Our platform thrives on diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving. Even if you’re not bringing a challenge, your contributions are essential to creating happy, healthy, prosperous, and sustainable places. Our community needs solution contributors, people to bring their expertise, insights and innovative ideas.
How You Can Contribute Without Posting a Challenge
Our platform thrives on diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving. Even if you’re not bringing a challenge, your contributions are essential to creating happy, healthy, prosperous, and sustainable places. Here’s how you can make an impact:
- Offer Solutions: Use your expertise, experiences, or creative thinking to propose actionable solutions to challenges posed by others.
- Share Best Practices: Highlight case studies, success stories, or lessons learned from your own work or community.
- Provide Constructive Feedback: Offer thoughtful critiques or enhancements to the ideas and solutions shared by others.
- Ask Thought-Provoking Questions: Help refine the understanding of challenges by asking insightful questions that lead to deeper discussions.
- Act as a Connector: Link people, resources, or organizations that could help address specific challenges.
- Participate in Discussions: Join forums, comment threads, or brainstorming sessions to collaborate with others and co-create solutions.
- Inspire Innovation: Share tools, frameworks, or emerging trends that could be applied to current challenges.
No matter your role, your voice and expertise help shape impactful, place-based solutions. Join the conversation and be part of the change!
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