The Open Innovation Festival (OIF) will be held for the third time from 29 November until 3 December 2010. The festival aims to innovate the public domain in order to showcase how governmental organizations, the profit sector and knowledge institutions can cooperate. Furthermore, it aims at showing that by working together we will create a more effective, more efficient and better government. The central theme of OIF2010 is working in communities. OIF2010 intends to demonstrate that opening up yourself and your organization to creativity and expertise from others will add an extra dimension to your projects and your work. Also, OIF2010 will proof that another way of working could lead to results once considered impossible.

The Open Innovation Festival is not an event, it is a fundamental change in thinking. Watch the end of the Open Innovation Festival online: http://bit.ly/watchoif2010

Watch Highlights OIF2010 (Dutch)

LIVESTREAM OIF2010

Participants
The municipalities of Eindhoven, Breda, Den Bosch, Veghel, Tilburg, Hoorn, Nieuwegein, OVER-gemeenten, Aalsmeer, Almere, Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Enschede, Groningen, Nijmegen, Heerlen, Oss, Utrecht, the Province of Noord-Brabant, the Province of Groningen, Central Government, UWV, participants in Helsinki, Copenhagen and Italy.

Program
Visit http://www.scribd.com/oif2010

The central theme of the Open Innovation Festival is working in communities. We have to cooperate in a different manner in order to cope with complex challenges. Governments should utilize the strength of communities to quickly establish intelligent innovations. In that proces, money should not be seen as the primary solution, finding the right expertise and talent should be. Nowadays, cooperation over the boundaries of organizations is crucial. The social internet (web 2.0) gives civil servants the opportunity to collaborate with citizens, entrepeneurs and knowledge institutions. During OIF2010 we will share knowledge and expertise and collaborate in communities to come up with new ideas and to find better solutions.