Innovate. To confine oneself. Innovate again: this was Open Geneva's motto during the covid-19 crisis!

The period of confinement was conducive to creativity and agility. 

We took advantage of this suspended time to reinvent our open innovation practices, acquire new knowledge, develop strong collaborations, take part in collective intelligence events and strengthen our skills in a digital world.

Open Geneva's resilience was not a challenge: it is an attitude that has guided us since the beginning of the adventure. Yet we seized the opportunity to rethink our tools and processes globally. We had a duty to fully deploy our mission in a context where the ability to innovate is existential.

By participating in the organisation of online hackathons, such as versusvirus or EUvsVirus, we have experienced and learned how to design virtual innovation events. The challenge of distance learning has encouraged us to further develop our digital tools, in particular the Sparkboard Open Geneva. In a few weeks, the Sparkboard will be ready to organise online hackathons. We have been considering new forms of social interaction to facilitate collective intelligence, even at a distance from each other.

We have stayed the same: we will continue to learn, we will test new open innovation practices, we will organise events both face-to-face and online, and we will provide our community with new tools!