WHY JOGL

Over the last 20 years, science and innovation have become increasingly cross-disiplinary and cross-organizational, involving more stakeholders from different countries and background. This trend is accelerating yet the current scientific and innovation patterns and structures are enforcing inefficient and siloed processes that are hindering productivity, quality of output, and attractivity for talents.

Synchronization
- within organizations
- cross-organization / cross disciplines / cross countries

The meritocracy issue

- capital allocation processes are a networking exercise
- only known scientists get funded
- innovation should not only come from few scientists


The inclusiveness issue

- Innovation requires a wide set of skills, not just scientists. People with a real problem. Designers, Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Community Leaders, Testers, Community organizers
- Yet the current academic system is pushing away those resources that can accelerate innovation and make it more relevant to maximize field impact

This is where JOGL comes in.

JOGL makes it easy for scientists, innovators, impact entrepreneurs, and community builders to collaborate in a more inclusive way.

JOGL’s ambition is to create value by increasing collective intelligence through better connecting researchers from different horizons, inventors, engineers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders. JOGL is committed to make science and innovation more meritocratic, and help individuals discover and unleash their passion.

For project leaders:

• Share your work: create your current and past projects. Not just scientific papers, but your actual Projects
• Document your project on JOGL
• Maintain a Library of all the relevant literature to your project
• Recruit contributors on JOGL
• Share your Needs on JOGL
• Link your project to expert Communities

For contributors:

JOGL is designed for curious individuals looking to solve specific problems, or exploring what problem to solve next. JOGL is not just for scientists, it is designed to bring all the skills and expertise required together to develop functional solutions that will have an impact in the world.

• Join or create Communities of interest. Explore the notes, documents, and libraries of your Projects and Communities
• Find opportunities by exploring the Needs of projects within communities of interest
• Add Notes and Papers to your Library to monitor the activity and Discussions on those.

For community leaders:

• Create your Community on JOGL and invite members
• Host Projects, support them by building a support network
• Build community knowledge through Documentation and Library
• Make community decisions (link to doc)
• Organize Call for Proposals

For organizations and complex ecosystems

• Create a Hub to host expert communities and projects
• Create cross-organizational Communities to support complex projects