Ideagoras are emerging everywhere these days, from veterans like yet2.com to a recent entrant called Insight — an ideagora for business analysts. Great idea in my view:

Insight is a new on-line community dedicated to those of us who want to use our passion for numbers to make a difference.

You know about open source, which is tapping into the community to build software, and Wikipedia, the community-built on-line encyclopedia. But is there anybody out there tapping into the collective intelligence of business analysts and other smart people who want to work together to solve some really tough problems?

We don’t think so. That’s why we’ve created Insight.

So it sounds a little like InnoCentive meets Wikipedia for business geeks. Cool that it’s kicking things off with a partnership with GoZero! Toronto where the Insight community will propose meaningful ways to visualize that data, simulate and model future scenarios to help these cities gauge the impact of changes in the environment. The See the Globe & Mail’s write up. We’ll be watching to see how this turns out.

Anthony D. Williams

From Wikinomics—The Blog