All projects need to be considered in the context of their social significance.

Think about these three approaches to selecting a project topic:

1. Consider all of the various social groups of which you are a member both in school and outside of school (IB program, classes, clubs, neighborhood, religious centers, etc...) and notice any problems that could be solved by the use of IT tools/processes.
2. Think about the news articles you have collected and about the portfolio pieces you have written. Think of the impacts of the issues and how you could work with the stakeholders to solve the problems.
3. Pay attention to announcements and local newscasts for information about programs and issues that could use help in making things run more smoothly and easily by the incorporation of information technology.

Make sure that the problem you are solving is for a "not for profit" business/organization.

Make sure that you have not pre-selected a solution. Two possible solutions need to be proposed and evaluated.

Make sure that you have time to propose, test, implement and observe the impacts of your chosen solution.

Make sure that every aspect of the project is being recorded in your logbook.

The following is a listing of projects and solutions that was issued long ago by the IB. These are intended for inspiration purposes only and please be aware that not all are appropriate. Also, several are SOLUTIONS to a problem--not the problem themselves. You must start by identifying a problem.

• Create an electronic bulletin board for use by students and/or parents.  Getting parents involved in using the system might be an interesting aspect.
• Develop an information system to store and retrieve text, sound and images about a school, city, club or business which could be used for open houses, brochures, etc...
• Develop a multimedia presentation for a lesson plan (for any subject on any topic) for use by teachers.
• Produce a school or interest group magazine, or a series of flyers or posters, to draw the attention of students or people outside the school to some issue of importance.  The impact an effectiveness of the magazine could be evaluated.
• Conduct a school survey on some current social issue, recording the results and presenting the findings in different ways.  Compare the effectiveness of the different methods.
• Create a school Web site which pages through the use of HTML, and a Web browser for on-line access or as a school-based web.  The site needs to consider issues of social significance.
• Convert a text document, which should be of social significance (e.g. health education advice), into an interactive hypertext document with graphics and, possibly, sound and video.
• Create some instruction sheets or use multimedia to create tutorials
• Use a spreadsheet or database to help an IB coordinator monitor and analyse date about CAS activities, extended essays, etc...  This can be adapted in many ways, such as help for the library or the cafeteria.
• Order an item by mail or phone but encode your name with a unique spelling so that, if the company sells the information, this can be detected.  Monitor for several weeks and present the data in a variety of different ways.
• Compose or adopt some music to accompany a school event or to help in teaching a musical point to younger children.
• Set up, or modify, a working expert system to help with some activity, such as learning particular facts.
• Produce interactive lessons on local history.
• Devise a system for managing a sports team.
• Design interactive software to teach the characters and basic words in Chinese.
• Computerize a bus service.
• Learning about the Internet: design a tutorial for disadvantaged children.