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[Insert name of MindHive Partner] to partner with Eidos’s MindHive platform.
Following the success of MindHive’s growth across Australia, [Insert name of MindHive
Partner] will join a growing network of companies and agencies commited to improving
national policy and strategy.
[Insert name of MindHive Partner] is set to join university and business leaders across the world to help contribute to
global challenges on one of the region’s premier international platforms.
To date more than 2400 experts from across the Asia Pacific and beyond are collectively working on industry and
government probelsm.
An initiative of the Eidos Institute, MindHive provides a platform for governments and businesses to engage on
developing more strategic opportunities in the region.
Via MindHive, [Insert name of MindHive Partner] will take the opportunity to [insert reason for joining e.g. the main
benefit to his/her company/industry/city].
“Insert comments from partner,” [Insert name of MindHive Partner] said.
“Insert further comment from partner.”
Eidos CEO Bruce Muirhead said MindHive’ purpose of building better strategy and ultimately a better Australia
features Best of breed online collaboration toolset, adaptive templates and methodology, high-performance, fullfeatured Lucene search engine, as used by Twitter, and developed to international cybersecurity standards using
best practice methodologies. MindHive was built by Wiliam, Australia's number one full service digital agency, with clients including BigW, Qantas,
Hewlett-Packard, Mastercard and Westpac. “By creating MindHive, Queensland will again provide to Australia an international platform for discussion on issues
that provide challenges and opportunities for our cities throughout the Asia Pacific region such as innovation,
technology, and sustainability,” Bruce Muirhead said.
“Crowdsourcing began as a simple ‘anti-trend’, but is now set to emerge as one of the defining mega-trends of the
future, altering forever the ways in which individuals and communities become more involved – and more powerful –
in the policy and strategy making process.”
For more information and/or for businesses to discuss purchasing MindHive, please visit www.mindhive.org
or call 0730097900
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About MindHive
MindHive is an open collaborative policy platform, rich in shared intelligence, concerned in creating better policy for a
better Australia. Generated over $2M in seed funding and received the following national acknowledgment: ●
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2015 Australian Good Design Award 2014 Winner for Innovation in The Australian Business Award. 2014 Winner of Service Science Society of Australia Innovation Award 2014 Reader's Choice Winner for The Australian's Innovation Challenge (ICT Category) 3rd in Top 100 most innovative products and services in Australia by the largest innovation awards program in
Australia, the Anthill Magazine 2014 SMART 100. 2014 Top 10 for the Vivid Ideas Readers’ Choice Award. 2014 Australian Business Awards for Innovation Voted as one of the Top Four ideas from some 80+ ideas presented for better connecting our research
community and our national policy-makers at a National Forum hosted by the Department of Prime Minister
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More than 40 partners, representing a client base of some 10 million people, have already partnered with MindHive.
Some of the issues and solutions currently being crowd sourced include:
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Public and Private Infrastructure model for Future Sydney – hosted by NRMA
Australia’s growing research engagement with China – Queensland University of Technology
Digital cities – the science and technology behind cities – hosted by CISCO
Cities for people – clean, green, accessible, and inclusive cities.
Eidos Institute was established in 2005, and created MindHive in 2014.
Other partners of MindHive include:
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NSW Public Service Commission
Services NSW
NSW Department of Industry
NSW Education and Communities
QLD Department of Transport and Main Roads
QLD Department of Justice and Attorney General
QLD Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships.
QLD Department of Premier and Cabinet
QLD Public Sector Commission
QLD Department of Local Government and Planning
Queensland Treasury
QLD Department of Education and Training
QLD Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
Queensland Police Service
QLD Department of Natural Resources and Mines
QLD Department of Public Works and Housing
QLD Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
QLD Department of Education and Communities
NOUS Group
The University of Sydney
Bond University
Edith Cowen University
James Cook University
NRMA
The University of Melbourne
RMIT
Queensland University of Technology
Griffith University
CISCO
Consumer Affairs Victoria
Australia Africa Business Council
Coorpative Research Centres Australia
Vicotoria University
Mitchell Institute
IPAA
Key services of MindHive include:
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MindHive any question/problem with our proven methodology and community driven problem solving. Produce and manage an unlimited number of MindHive Challenges. Establish an unlimited number of discussion Topics. Post secondments, exchanges and positions on the MindHive jobs board. Crowdsource the Hive or select from a team of verified experts. Appoint your own policy/strategy development panel. Host your Challenge either publicly or privately, using best-practice security standards. Page 2
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Unlimited number of policy revisions within the Challenge timeframe. Manage your organisational profile and presence within MindHive. Invite an unlimited number of verified Contributors from your organisation into MindHive. Co-create and adapt MindHive to suit your organisations needs through engagement with the MindHive Support
and Development Team. Publish your solution with real-time Challenge report production. Share Challenge impact throughout MindHive global network. Gain access to unique network of academic and industry experts. Key Features of MindHive include:
● Built by Wiliam, Australia's number one full service digital agency, with clients including BigW, Qantas, HewlettPackard, Mastercard and Westpac. ● Extension of Eidos Institute’s 10 years in national and international policy and strategy consulting ● Best of breed online collaboration toolset. ● Adaptive templates and methodology ● MindHive's Exchange platform, a unique targeted secondment marketplace. ● Peer-to-peer live web support (7am-5pm Monday to Friday). ● 24 Hour Support ticketing system with guaranteed next day response. ● Ever-expanding catalogue of targeted step-by-step instructional videos. ● MindHive Masterclasses, held monthly (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth). ● Data-driven reporting tools that make it easy to measure and improve the success of your MindHive Challenges.
● Cloud-based platform, hosted on a dedicated secure server by Australia's leading managed cloud company. ● High-performance, full-featured Lucene search engine, as used by Twitter. ● Developed to international cybersecurity standards using best practice methodologies. ●
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