Overview

The Mozilla Labs Concept Series and Design Challenges are initiatives in the area of open innovation and crowdsourcing. Though both initiatives are fairly popular, we believe that they could do even better. Main opportunities are in the areas of overall participation as well as interaction & collaboration (turning ideas into concepts and prototypes) and tooling & scalability (see our presentation for details).

The Mozilla Labs “Crowdsource Crowdsourcing” Project aims to bring students from leading universities together; to perform a status quo/gap analysis, collect and analyze best practices, develop ideas & concepts, run experiments and gather user feedback to develop and implement a best in class open innovation / crowdsourcing program.

The Project

A small group of selected students from schools & universities around the world will work together with Mozilla Labs on this project. We will use online project management & collaboration software for overall project management, voice & video chat for meetings, document our work on a public wiki, blog on the Mozilla Labs blog and engage the wider community through the Concept Series mailing list. The project is scheduled for a 3 month period – at the end of the project we will build the new program based on your findings, recommendations, ideas and concepts.

Project Phases

1. Application
   Students submit their application proposals (a short answer to the question “Why I want to be part of this project”)
2. Selection
   Mozilla Labs will select a handful of students based on their application proposals and will form the virtual team
3. Analysis
   The project team performs a status quo/gap analysis, results will be published and shared with the wider community
4. Ideation
   Brainstorming, selection and refinement of ideas for the new Concept Series – the process will be documented & shared with the wider community; feedback will be collected, consolidated and incorporated
5. Build
   Together with Mozilla Labs, the team will build and roll out the new program; a continuous feedback loop will be established and will influence future development

Important Dates

• July 18th, 2010 – Submission Deadline
• July 21st, 2010 – Team Selection
• July 26th, 2010 – Project Kick-Off
• Mid-October – Project Completed

Apply Now!

Want to design and create the next generation crowdsourcing platform? Do you have solid analytical skills, great ideas, a good sense for usability, a keen interest and understanding of open innovation and crowdsourcing? Learn from a multi-disciplinary team, work on the leading edge of innovation and gain invaluable experience.

Then you should apply – simply fill out the form and we’ll be in touch shortly.

Click here and become part of the project!