Suggested use: go through the questions, bullet out a couple things for each, and then at the end you’ll probably have a couple project ideas that are uniquely suited to you.
Your personal interests
What outcomes are you personally most concerned about? Especially things where you feel like you’re more concerned than others.
What questions or things do you find yourself most frequently wondering about?
What are your urgent or critical challenges?
What do you wish someone else would do?
Network
Because a hard part of many projects is reaching the people needed to build it, or reaching the people who you want to use it / benefit from it.
Current and past work connections
School connections
Social connections
Family and extended family, and their connections
Family friends
Online forums or communities
Skills and aptitudes
What things do other people view as “work” that you do for fun?
What things are really easy for you?
What are your skills?
What are your aptitudes?
What have you built, worked on, or done in the past?
Other resources
What other resources or assets do you have? For example, ways you can reach certain audiences, excess financial capital?
Boundaries
How much time are you willing to spend on a COVID related project before seeing positive results?
List of prompts for brainstorming COVID response project ideas
Suggested use: go through the questions, bullet out a couple things for each, and then at the end you’ll probably have a couple project ideas that are uniquely suited to you.
Your personal interests
What outcomes are you personally most concerned about? Especially things where you feel like you’re more concerned than others.
What questions or things do you find yourself most frequently wondering about?
What are your urgent or critical challenges?
What do you wish someone else would do?
Network
Because a hard part of many projects is reaching the people needed to build it, or reaching the people who you want to use it / benefit from it.
Current and past work connections
School connections
Social connections
Family and extended family, and their connections
Family friends
Online forums or communities
Skills and aptitudes
What things do other people view as “work” that you do for fun?
What things are really easy for you?
What are your skills?
What are your aptitudes?
What have you built, worked on, or done in the past?
Other resources
What other resources or assets do you have? For example, ways you can reach certain audiences, excess financial capital?
Boundaries
How much time are you willing to spend on a COVID related project before seeing positive results?