At first, Rebecca Kirstein Resch stated Calgary-based inqli is an inclusive knowledge-sharing platform.
Now it’s getting used to attach the province’s innovation group by means of the group Rainforest Alberta.
The platform is a portal the place folks in a company or skilled group can ask questions, get solutions and keep knowledgeable on what’s taking place. Kirstein Resch, founder and CEO of the corporate, stated the closest comparability can be one thing like Reddit or Quora.
“It’s all data sharing for the aim of serving to folks advance in their very own acquisition of data and in their very own careers,” she informed LiveWire Calgary.
What separates inqli from the prior talked about platforms is the curated communities.
“We very a lot try to create an area of psychological security the place folks can ask any kinds of questions. They’re who they are saying they’re, they’re linked to their identities,” Kirstein Resch stated.
“There’s no bots or trolls or these sorts of issues.”
Opening up this chance in organizations or totally different skilled communities creates a connection, Kirstein-Resch stated. It may give a junior worker an opportunity to attach with extra skilled members of the group. That helps shut data gaps in an organization.
The platform offers folks in knowledgeable group an opportunity to change experiences and join each other to sources.
“We very a lot designed the platform just a little otherwise from Quora or Reddit,” Kirstein Resch stated.
“It’s designed for these rather more, what we name, well-resourced conversations and persons are sharing sources forwards and backwards with one another.”
Connections within the Rainforest
Rainforest Alberta, a company devoted to enhancing Alberta’s innovation ecosystem, launched a pilot venture with inqli within the latter half of January. The purpose is to create a centralized dialog platform.
“Rainforest has at all times promoted the significance that variety performs in accelerating innovation in our province,” stated Brad Zumwalt, Rainforest Alberta co-founder. “
inqli’s software program permits for these various views to come back collectively in a extra accessible approach.”
Kirstein Resch stated it’s an opportunity to attach members of Alberta’s innovation group to a central hub of data and sources.
“In communities like Rainforest Alberta it’s very a lot about wayfinding,” she stated.
“Entrepreneurs like me who’re within the ecosystem, they’re in search of funding, they’re in search of connections or in search of partnerships, mentors, buyer discovery, all these totally different sorts of issues at totally different levels of their journey. Asking the collective group helps them discover the sources they want as they want them.”
It’s additionally a solution to preserve folks engaged of their firm, or group, Kirstein Resch stated. With extra work-from-home in a post-pandemic world, it’s serving to preserve staff linked. She stated most staff know lower than 10 folks of their group. With inqli, they’ll join. Significantly the youthful generations, a gaggle that’s digitally native, she stated.
“They need to make these connections remotely, not solely to get their questions answered and enhance their very own data and productiveness throughout the group,” Kirstein Resch stated.
“They actually simply need to know the folks within the group.”
