Collaboration not competition: could this be the future of development?

“Now the intention is to form interesting collaborations.” He believes that innovation happens when different people with different perspectives work together. The aim is that this project will bring development professionals together with the private sector, tech startups, local experts and anyone else who has an idea and interest in solving the challenges.

Amplify will look at 10 global development challenges over five years. Anyone can contribute ideas to solve these problems on an open-platform website. The ideas are then refined through a series of stages where experts and opinionated amateurs give their feedback, before the best few are awarded DfID funding. It’s crowdsourcing development: but will it work?