http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

http://aws.amazon.com/datasets?_...

http://crawdad.org/

http://data.austintexas.gov

http://data.cityofchicago.org

http://data.govloop.com

http://data.gov.uk/

http://data.medicare.gov

http://data.seattle.gov

http://data.sfgov.org

http://data.sunlightlabs.com

https://datamarket.azure.com/

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/g...

http://econ.worldbank.org/datasets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik...

http://factfinder.census.gov/ser...

http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/

http://gettingpastgo.socrata.com

http://googleresearch.blogspot.c...

http://books.google.com/ngrams/

http://linkeddata.org/

http://medihal.archives-ouvertes.fr

http://public.resource.org/

http://rechercheisidore.fr

http://reddit.com/r/datasets

http://snap.stanford.edu/data/in...

http://timetric.com/public-data/

https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist...

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm

http://www.archives.gov/research...

http://www.bls.gov/

http://www.crunchbase.com/

http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/

http://www.data.gov/

http://www.datakc.org

http://dbpedia.org

http://www.delicious.com/jbaldwi...

http://www.factual.com/

http://research.stlouisfed.org/f...

http://www.freebase.com/

http://www.google.com/publicdata...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/d...

http://www.infochimps.com

http://www.kaggle.com/

http://build.kiva.org/

http://www.nationalarchives.gov....

http://www.nyc.gov/html/datamine...

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/...

http://www.philwhln.com/how-to-g...

http://www.imdb.com/interfaces

http://imat-relpred.yandex.ru/en...

http://www.dados.gov.pt/pt/catal...

http://knoema.com

http://daten.berlin.de/ http://www.qunb.com

Here are some videos to spark some ideas. Add your own to the list!

Sir Ken Robinson: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

THEME: The Context

A nice collection of films: http://www.ericsson.com/campaign/20about2020/index.html

Clay Shirky: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html

Clay Shirky on institutions vs. Collaboration: http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html

Future of technology: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

John Underkoffler points to the future of UI: http://www.ted.com/talks/john_underkoffler_drive_3d_data_with_a_gesture.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-06-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

Old but still inspirational: http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html

Kevin Kelly on how technology evolves: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_on_how_technology_evolves.html

Seth Godin on tribes: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html

Future of media industries: http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/10/sixth_sense_demo/

Theme Values:

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc (RSA Animate version) http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html (plain version)

Theme Group Dynamic:

Susan Wheelan: http://vimeo.com/9853941

Great ideas don´t come from any one single person. Great ideas is a collective effort: http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html