The Garage Innovation Platform, implemented for the Ministry of Law in Singapore, is a collaborative e-learning solution designed to foster the creating and sharing of ideas using a set of creativity tools.
The Garage project sponsors had these goals in mind:
The project had taken root during an earlier knowledge management initiative commissioned to better understand the knowledge sharing culture. Straits Knowledge, a leading knowledge management consultancy did that project and as part of their deliverable had crafted a series of cultural archetypes of the organization. These archetypes had the power to tell a story and to empower learning. We subsequently used these archetypes to create the eLearning application that was christened Garage.
Garage is a unique application. It is not content-centric. Rather, it provides frameworks for users to create their own content and share it with others. This framework is highly visual and interactive. For example, in the Mindmap framework, users can actually draw out a mindmap and then share it with their colleagues. They in turn can alter or add to the first mindmap and submit it back to the community. This way an idea can take shape with inputs from many users.
This Flash-driven application uses XML, databases and some creative programming to bring it to life.
Here's more from the news section:
The Ministry of Law, Singapore, has written about the Garage Innovation Platform - a collaborative e-learning solution, designed by PebbleRoad & Straits Knowledge, to foster the creating and sharing of ideas using a set of creativity tools.