The Institute for Social Inventions was a think tank set up in 1985 to publicise and launch good ideas for improving the quality of life. Its founder Nicholas Albery (1948–2001) sought to promote non-technological innovations.
4-524: The Global Ideas Bank' s origins lie in the Institute for Social Inventions , which was set up in 1985 by Nicholas Albery , social inventor and visionary. From small beginnings (a network of inventors, a quarterly newsletter), the Institute grew into a full-fledged organisation under his leadership: producing an annual compendium, running social inventions workshops and promoting creative solutions around
8-536: The 1970s. One of the earliest of these centers was BIT Information Service , founded in 1968 by John "Hoppy" Hopkins . It was during his years as coordinator of BIT that Nicholas Albery came out with the idea of an Institute who would promote all kinds of ideas and experimentation, developed mainly inside what has been called the " Alternative Society ". The institute has been known by different names, such as "Institute for Social Innovations ", or "Institute for Social Change ". All these denominations revolved around
12-531: The work of several volunteer programmers and technical wizards (especially Flemming Funch of the New Civilization Network), new features were added: online submission, voting systems, categorisation, a message board, and so on. Institute for Social Inventions The Institute emerged from the informal network of Social centers and Info-services which spread around in London throughout
16-467: The world. It was part of the first European Social Innovations Exchange . In 2001, the institute was awarded a Margaret Mead Special Recognition Award for "community creativity for a new century" In 1995, the Global Ideas Bank (originally suggested by an American correspondent, Gregory Wright) was first established online, and has since become the name for the entire project's work. Through
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