An analysis of the sustainability of platforms for social engagement and social empowerment based on the @pentagrowth. Positioning of the Pattern Languages for Systemic Transformation (PLAST) project.
An ecology for systemic change. How to foster and empower disruptive innovati...Helene Finidori
Looking at how to embed into the system the code for its renewal. Fostering factors of opportunity and renewal as commons. A draft presentation, work in progress.
The full paper is available here: https://www.academia.edu/7304971/An_Ecology_of_Transformative_Action_Awaiting_to_be_Discovered
Netention is a system for interactively describing a community's present situation & exploring potential futures. People create networks of things, ideas, sentiments, intentions, assets, interests, tasks, locations, messages, parts… that compose semantic stories or processes waiting to become reality: a team, a product, a symphony, a diagnose, a learning journey... and Netention helps them discover opportunities that are mutually satisfying.
More info on http://www.automenta.com/.
This document discusses cultivating transformative leadership by leveraging emergence and expanding boundaries. It argues that as individuals interact and horizons expand, empathy and mindfulness grow, allowing intent to unite around a thriving future. Navigating possibilities and tracking impact in relation to purpose helps adjust actions and be the change. The key is interacting meaningfully with diversity to make sense of ourselves as part of a greater whole.
The Commons as underlying logic to federate social disparate social change and sustainability efforts. A talk at the 'Imagine the Common Good' conference, Paris, August 25 to 28, 2013. Part of the Cultural Diversity & the Common Good panel.
Version française: http://www.slideshare.net/helenefinidori/fdrer-les-efforts-pour-un-monde-meilleur
Pattern Languages for Systemic transformation. Connected via the systemic dynamics that underlie them, which enable to connect agencies (capacity for change) across practices and to enhance collective interpretation and navigation of systems directionality.
This document proposes a systemic interpretation language to bridge the systemic and semantic spheres. It involves using patterns and pattern languages at different levels of abstraction across domains. The language uses a grammar of elementary components including dynamics, statics, and heuristics. Patterns are explored using various contexts and methodologies in an open network, with a focus on observation, relationships, and multiple perspectives. The goal is to facilitate systemic coherence while appreciating multiple solutions and organizing knowledge in a pattern repository.
This document introduces Seratio Blockchain 2.0, which extends the theoretical framework developed in version 1.0 to model the impact of interventions based on shared community values. It develops an Impact Theory using blockchain to demonstrate how the degree of impact is directly related to alignment between the impactor and impacted. The model also shows how loss of alignment or negative sentiment can reduce or eliminate impact. The document provides equations to model the flow of value within a community over time and space, considering factors like social earnings ratios and perceived values. It aims to improve understanding and prediction of intervention outcomes and impact efficiency.
The document summarizes conclusions from research on social networks and community disaster recovery. It presents a "four layers model" to analyze social networks at different scales: the physical, organizational, emotional, and cultural layers. These layers respectively represent the space/infrastructure for interactions, how agents organize themselves, how agents relate to each other emotionally, and the meanings they assign their interactions. The model views disaster recovery as an emergent social network that can be analyzed across these dimensions.
An ecology for systemic change. How to foster and empower disruptive innovati...Helene Finidori
Looking at how to embed into the system the code for its renewal. Fostering factors of opportunity and renewal as commons. A draft presentation, work in progress.
The full paper is available here: https://www.academia.edu/7304971/An_Ecology_of_Transformative_Action_Awaiting_to_be_Discovered
Netention is a system for interactively describing a community's present situation & exploring potential futures. People create networks of things, ideas, sentiments, intentions, assets, interests, tasks, locations, messages, parts… that compose semantic stories or processes waiting to become reality: a team, a product, a symphony, a diagnose, a learning journey... and Netention helps them discover opportunities that are mutually satisfying.
More info on http://www.automenta.com/.
This document discusses cultivating transformative leadership by leveraging emergence and expanding boundaries. It argues that as individuals interact and horizons expand, empathy and mindfulness grow, allowing intent to unite around a thriving future. Navigating possibilities and tracking impact in relation to purpose helps adjust actions and be the change. The key is interacting meaningfully with diversity to make sense of ourselves as part of a greater whole.
The Commons as underlying logic to federate social disparate social change and sustainability efforts. A talk at the 'Imagine the Common Good' conference, Paris, August 25 to 28, 2013. Part of the Cultural Diversity & the Common Good panel.
Version française: http://www.slideshare.net/helenefinidori/fdrer-les-efforts-pour-un-monde-meilleur
Pattern Languages for Systemic transformation. Connected via the systemic dynamics that underlie them, which enable to connect agencies (capacity for change) across practices and to enhance collective interpretation and navigation of systems directionality.
This document proposes a systemic interpretation language to bridge the systemic and semantic spheres. It involves using patterns and pattern languages at different levels of abstraction across domains. The language uses a grammar of elementary components including dynamics, statics, and heuristics. Patterns are explored using various contexts and methodologies in an open network, with a focus on observation, relationships, and multiple perspectives. The goal is to facilitate systemic coherence while appreciating multiple solutions and organizing knowledge in a pattern repository.
This document introduces Seratio Blockchain 2.0, which extends the theoretical framework developed in version 1.0 to model the impact of interventions based on shared community values. It develops an Impact Theory using blockchain to demonstrate how the degree of impact is directly related to alignment between the impactor and impacted. The model also shows how loss of alignment or negative sentiment can reduce or eliminate impact. The document provides equations to model the flow of value within a community over time and space, considering factors like social earnings ratios and perceived values. It aims to improve understanding and prediction of intervention outcomes and impact efficiency.
The document summarizes conclusions from research on social networks and community disaster recovery. It presents a "four layers model" to analyze social networks at different scales: the physical, organizational, emotional, and cultural layers. These layers respectively represent the space/infrastructure for interactions, how agents organize themselves, how agents relate to each other emotionally, and the meanings they assign their interactions. The model views disaster recovery as an emergent social network that can be analyzed across these dimensions.
The document discusses using a complex systems perspective to analyze and resolve conflicts. It presents approaches that shift patterns and change attractors to enable sustainable agreements. These "conflict dissolving" practices suspend existing structures, facilitate new understanding, and enable new solutions to emerge. Case studies show setting a common attractor, breaking current structures, and changing relationships can resolve tensions. Appreciative inquiry and open space techniques are also discussed as ways to catalyze new patterns and stabilize solutions through multi-level engagement.
This document provides an overview of concepts related to rationality, language, and collective wisdom in networked societies. It discusses theories of bounded rationality and how individuals have limited cognitive abilities. It also examines the role of language beyond just communication, and how persuasion and lies are incorporated into social uses of language. The document advocates moving beyond formalistic views of rational agents to incorporate the networked and social aspects of decision-making. It discusses how collective intelligence through open information and crowd expertise can help address conflicts. The masses are posited as a potential source of collective wisdom.
Urban Hub 11 : Co Creating Emergence - a meta-pragmatic approachPaul van Schaık
Co Creating Emergence a meta-pragmatic approach to the creation of thriveable cities
This document is not about clicking our links and following our path of discovery but about engaging and searching your own path in collaboration with us and others and developing pathways for our combined action.
This document discusses designing cities to foster connection and regeneration. It argues that modernity has led to fragmentation and unsustainability that must be reversed by reweaving rich webs of synergistic relationships. This reconnection of social and environmental fabrics is a creative challenge for the future. While many partial solutions are proposed, they are often disconnected and lack a larger strategic framework informed by an inspiring vision of an alternative to the status quo. Facing the great challenges will require profound societal changes to foster sustainability.
A series of graphics from integralMENTORS integral UrbanHub work on IMP and Thriveable Cities
These books show the graphics from a dynamic deck that accompany a presentation on Visions & WorldViews and Thriveable Cities. The history of the co-evolution of cities, evolving WorldViews, Visions & Mindsets in Urban Habitats and technology is presented in an integral framework.
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes see UH 2 & UH 3 for more detail.
These volumes are part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners.
Urban hub 20 : Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
This document discusses accelerating city change in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world through community learning about climate change challenges.
It begins by stating that limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require dramatic transformations, as seen by the coronavirus crisis. However, the quality of change matters - transformations should pursue an equitable and sustainable world.
The document then discusses how framing problems technically versus adaptively influences solutions. Technical problems have known solutions, while adaptive problems require experimenting and learning new behaviors. Climate change requires adaptive approaches to drive societal evolution. Community learning can help address both technical and adaptive dimensions to accelerate positive city transformations.
Urban Hub 22 : Transitions - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
No one vision is sufficient in and of itself – visions can guide but only by collaborative action in a creative generative process can visions grow and become part of an ongoing positive sociocultural reality.
Without taking into account the many worldviews that currently co-exist and crafting ways of including them in a positive and healthy form we will continue to alienate vast sections of all communities and humankind.
A series of books from integralMENTORS Integral UrbanHub work - on Wellbeing and Thriveable Cities
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes see UH 2 & UH 3 for more detail.
This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners.
This book brings together all the wellbeing related pages from the first 15 volumes of this Urban Hub series and adds a few new ideas
This document provides an overview of an integral framework for understanding cities and urban design. It discusses some key aspects of an integral approach, including considering multiple perspectives, levels of development, cultural factors, states of consciousness, and social and biological systems. It emphasizes taking a holistic, comprehensive and non-marginalizing approach. The document also provides examples of how to apply an integral framework to better understand topics like thriving communities, learning, and the characteristics of a good city.
Teaching technology entrepreneurship at engineering universities—experiences,...Sergej Lugovic
Zagreb, 20th
- 24th July 2015
Zagreb, Croatia
“ICEE 2015, 19th International Conference on Engineering Education“
Organizers:
ZSEM-Business Academy, Zagreb
iNEER
General partner:
Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
Urban Hub 8 : What We Can Do Cultivating Change - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
This document provides an introduction to an 8-part series on thriveable cities using an integral framework. It discusses key concepts from integral theory like multiple perspectives, levels of consciousness, and subjective and objective approaches. It presents an integral view of mapping human possibilities and factors to consider. It also discusses integral cartography and frameworks that are more comprehensive and inclusive. The document provides context on using the materials and encourages collaborative action over just discussion.
The document discusses several concepts related to adaptive governance including adaptive co-management, social networks, bridging organizations, and polycentric governance. It emphasizes that adaptive governance is needed to address rapid global change, uncertainty, and surprise. Adaptive governance links evolving knowledge and actions through concepts like collective action, social networks, and transformations. However, relating these concepts and applying them across scales remains a challenge. The document examines how institutions, networks, and bridging organizations at various levels could support adaptive governance of complex social-ecological systems like the Great Barrier Reef, but also acknowledges open questions around power dynamics, governance trade-offs, and institutionalizing
This document discusses an integral framework and approach. It notes that an integral view aims to be comprehensive, inclusive and non-marginalizing by including as many perspectives, styles and methodologies as possible within a coherent view of the topic. An integral approach draws together existing paradigms into an interrelated network of mutually enriching approaches. A more integral cartography or map would include multiple levels of consciousness, lines of development, types of consciousness, brain states, cultural factors, the social system, and the importance of self. Such a holistic view aims to coherently include all relevant factors.
Urban Hub 19 : Deep Drivers - An Integral Theory of Change and a framework fo...Paul van Schaık
Deep Drivers An Integral Theory of Change and a framework for action. A series of books from integralMENTORS Integral UrbanHub work - on Wellbeing and Thriveable Cities
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes see UH 2 & UH 3 for more detail.
This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners.
Urban Hub 10 : EDUCATION a future - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
A series of graphics from integralMENTORS integral UrbanHub work on IMP and Thriveable Cities This work shows the graphics from a dynamic deck that accompany a presentation on Visions & WorldViews and Thriveable Cities.
The history of the co-evolution of cities, evolving WorldViews, Visions & Mindsets in urban Habitats and technology is presented in an integral framework.
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes. This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners.
"This book brings together all the education related pages from the first 9 volumes of this Urban Hub series and adds a few new ideas"
The document discusses community empowerment and the skills needed to facilitate it. It defines empowerment as giving power, encouragement, and confidence to a community. Sixteen elements that contribute to community empowerment are identified, including altruism, common values, leadership, organization, and trust. There are three levels of empowerment - individual, organizational/group, and community. Community empowerment occurs when individuals and institutions have power to achieve satisfactory outcomes. Participatory methods should measure changes in community strength by assessing changes in the sixteen elements and three levels of empowerment.
"Society 2.0: designing an action research into the next civilization" is an updated version of the talk I gave at the "2gether08" unconference in London, July 3, 2008. A downloadable version (complete with clickable links), its context and related conversation can be found in the Jump Time Players blog, http://www.evolutionarynexus.org/jtp_blog .
Urban hub15 : Dancing with the Future - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
Urban Hub15 : Dancing with the Future - Thriveable Cities is a continuation the the series covering many aspects of ideas and theories including Visions & WorldViews of cities. The history of the co-evolution of cities, evolving WorldViews, Visions & Mindsets in urban Habitats and technology is presented in an integral framework. Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes. This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners
Tech and Government - Procurement statsPaul Matthews
The document discusses challenges with IT project success and software procurement. It finds that 52% of projects are challenged and 19% are canceled, with only 29% successful. Project size, complexity, methodology, cost estimation, and team culture impact success. For large projects, cost is rarely estimated correctly and vendors often inflate costs or cut corners when overruns occur. While Agile works better for software, it is not seen as very compatible with typical procurement processes. The challenge is bringing good software development processes together with good procurement practices.
This document contains an activity sheet for children to copy the names of various insects and color in their pictures. It lists the names of 7 common insects - cockroach, mosquito, fly, dragonfly, bee, ant, and butterfly. It instructs children to fill in their name, date, copy the insect names underneath the corresponding pictures, and color the pictures nicely.
The document discusses using a complex systems perspective to analyze and resolve conflicts. It presents approaches that shift patterns and change attractors to enable sustainable agreements. These "conflict dissolving" practices suspend existing structures, facilitate new understanding, and enable new solutions to emerge. Case studies show setting a common attractor, breaking current structures, and changing relationships can resolve tensions. Appreciative inquiry and open space techniques are also discussed as ways to catalyze new patterns and stabilize solutions through multi-level engagement.
This document provides an overview of concepts related to rationality, language, and collective wisdom in networked societies. It discusses theories of bounded rationality and how individuals have limited cognitive abilities. It also examines the role of language beyond just communication, and how persuasion and lies are incorporated into social uses of language. The document advocates moving beyond formalistic views of rational agents to incorporate the networked and social aspects of decision-making. It discusses how collective intelligence through open information and crowd expertise can help address conflicts. The masses are posited as a potential source of collective wisdom.
Urban Hub 11 : Co Creating Emergence - a meta-pragmatic approachPaul van Schaık
Co Creating Emergence a meta-pragmatic approach to the creation of thriveable cities
This document is not about clicking our links and following our path of discovery but about engaging and searching your own path in collaboration with us and others and developing pathways for our combined action.
This document discusses designing cities to foster connection and regeneration. It argues that modernity has led to fragmentation and unsustainability that must be reversed by reweaving rich webs of synergistic relationships. This reconnection of social and environmental fabrics is a creative challenge for the future. While many partial solutions are proposed, they are often disconnected and lack a larger strategic framework informed by an inspiring vision of an alternative to the status quo. Facing the great challenges will require profound societal changes to foster sustainability.
A series of graphics from integralMENTORS integral UrbanHub work on IMP and Thriveable Cities
These books show the graphics from a dynamic deck that accompany a presentation on Visions & WorldViews and Thriveable Cities. The history of the co-evolution of cities, evolving WorldViews, Visions & Mindsets in Urban Habitats and technology is presented in an integral framework.
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes see UH 2 & UH 3 for more detail.
These volumes are part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners.
Urban hub 20 : Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
This document discusses accelerating city change in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world through community learning about climate change challenges.
It begins by stating that limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require dramatic transformations, as seen by the coronavirus crisis. However, the quality of change matters - transformations should pursue an equitable and sustainable world.
The document then discusses how framing problems technically versus adaptively influences solutions. Technical problems have known solutions, while adaptive problems require experimenting and learning new behaviors. Climate change requires adaptive approaches to drive societal evolution. Community learning can help address both technical and adaptive dimensions to accelerate positive city transformations.
Urban Hub 22 : Transitions - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
No one vision is sufficient in and of itself – visions can guide but only by collaborative action in a creative generative process can visions grow and become part of an ongoing positive sociocultural reality.
Without taking into account the many worldviews that currently co-exist and crafting ways of including them in a positive and healthy form we will continue to alienate vast sections of all communities and humankind.
A series of books from integralMENTORS Integral UrbanHub work - on Wellbeing and Thriveable Cities
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes see UH 2 & UH 3 for more detail.
This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners.
This book brings together all the wellbeing related pages from the first 15 volumes of this Urban Hub series and adds a few new ideas
This document provides an overview of an integral framework for understanding cities and urban design. It discusses some key aspects of an integral approach, including considering multiple perspectives, levels of development, cultural factors, states of consciousness, and social and biological systems. It emphasizes taking a holistic, comprehensive and non-marginalizing approach. The document also provides examples of how to apply an integral framework to better understand topics like thriving communities, learning, and the characteristics of a good city.
Teaching technology entrepreneurship at engineering universities—experiences,...Sergej Lugovic
Zagreb, 20th
- 24th July 2015
Zagreb, Croatia
“ICEE 2015, 19th International Conference on Engineering Education“
Organizers:
ZSEM-Business Academy, Zagreb
iNEER
General partner:
Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
Urban Hub 8 : What We Can Do Cultivating Change - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
This document provides an introduction to an 8-part series on thriveable cities using an integral framework. It discusses key concepts from integral theory like multiple perspectives, levels of consciousness, and subjective and objective approaches. It presents an integral view of mapping human possibilities and factors to consider. It also discusses integral cartography and frameworks that are more comprehensive and inclusive. The document provides context on using the materials and encourages collaborative action over just discussion.
The document discusses several concepts related to adaptive governance including adaptive co-management, social networks, bridging organizations, and polycentric governance. It emphasizes that adaptive governance is needed to address rapid global change, uncertainty, and surprise. Adaptive governance links evolving knowledge and actions through concepts like collective action, social networks, and transformations. However, relating these concepts and applying them across scales remains a challenge. The document examines how institutions, networks, and bridging organizations at various levels could support adaptive governance of complex social-ecological systems like the Great Barrier Reef, but also acknowledges open questions around power dynamics, governance trade-offs, and institutionalizing
This document discusses an integral framework and approach. It notes that an integral view aims to be comprehensive, inclusive and non-marginalizing by including as many perspectives, styles and methodologies as possible within a coherent view of the topic. An integral approach draws together existing paradigms into an interrelated network of mutually enriching approaches. A more integral cartography or map would include multiple levels of consciousness, lines of development, types of consciousness, brain states, cultural factors, the social system, and the importance of self. Such a holistic view aims to coherently include all relevant factors.
Urban Hub 19 : Deep Drivers - An Integral Theory of Change and a framework fo...Paul van Schaık
Deep Drivers An Integral Theory of Change and a framework for action. A series of books from integralMENTORS Integral UrbanHub work - on Wellbeing and Thriveable Cities
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes see UH 2 & UH 3 for more detail.
This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners.
Urban Hub 10 : EDUCATION a future - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
A series of graphics from integralMENTORS integral UrbanHub work on IMP and Thriveable Cities This work shows the graphics from a dynamic deck that accompany a presentation on Visions & WorldViews and Thriveable Cities.
The history of the co-evolution of cities, evolving WorldViews, Visions & Mindsets in urban Habitats and technology is presented in an integral framework.
Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes. This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners.
"This book brings together all the education related pages from the first 9 volumes of this Urban Hub series and adds a few new ideas"
The document discusses community empowerment and the skills needed to facilitate it. It defines empowerment as giving power, encouragement, and confidence to a community. Sixteen elements that contribute to community empowerment are identified, including altruism, common values, leadership, organization, and trust. There are three levels of empowerment - individual, organizational/group, and community. Community empowerment occurs when individuals and institutions have power to achieve satisfactory outcomes. Participatory methods should measure changes in community strength by assessing changes in the sixteen elements and three levels of empowerment.
"Society 2.0: designing an action research into the next civilization" is an updated version of the talk I gave at the "2gether08" unconference in London, July 3, 2008. A downloadable version (complete with clickable links), its context and related conversation can be found in the Jump Time Players blog, http://www.evolutionarynexus.org/jtp_blog .
Urban hub15 : Dancing with the Future - Thriveable CitiesPaul van Schaık
Urban Hub15 : Dancing with the Future - Thriveable Cities is a continuation the the series covering many aspects of ideas and theories including Visions & WorldViews of cities. The history of the co-evolution of cities, evolving WorldViews, Visions & Mindsets in urban Habitats and technology is presented in an integral framework. Integral theory is simply explained as it relates to these themes. This volume is part of an ongoing series of guides to integrally inform practitioners
Tech and Government - Procurement statsPaul Matthews
The document discusses challenges with IT project success and software procurement. It finds that 52% of projects are challenged and 19% are canceled, with only 29% successful. Project size, complexity, methodology, cost estimation, and team culture impact success. For large projects, cost is rarely estimated correctly and vendors often inflate costs or cut corners when overruns occur. While Agile works better for software, it is not seen as very compatible with typical procurement processes. The challenge is bringing good software development processes together with good procurement practices.
This document contains an activity sheet for children to copy the names of various insects and color in their pictures. It lists the names of 7 common insects - cockroach, mosquito, fly, dragonfly, bee, ant, and butterfly. It instructs children to fill in their name, date, copy the insect names underneath the corresponding pictures, and color the pictures nicely.
The document provides feedback from an audience on the combination of a band's main media products and ancillary texts. [1] The audience provided mostly positive feedback on the video media product, praising elements like the use of stop motion, shots, and narrative. [2] Some negatives included issues with some stop motion shots and too many black screens. [3] Feedback on the print product was also mostly positive but noted it could be more finished and better connect the narrative. The creator plans to address the feedback to better meet audience expectations.
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and first implemented in 1990. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks. The underlying technologies that enabled the World Wide Web include HTML, URLs, HTTP, and the first web browser and server created by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1990.
Tree growing success starts with the right soilAmber Brant
The document discusses the benefits of meditation for reducing stress and anxiety. Regular meditation practice can help calm the mind and body by lowering heart rate and blood pressure. Making meditation a part of a daily routine, even if just 10-15 minutes per day, can offer significant health benefits over time such as improved focus, better sleep, and a more positive outlook.
The document summarizes Mike Stacey's presentation on helping startups work with automotive companies. It announces an upcoming speaker series at IIT on connected cars and mobility. It then provides information about VG SmartGlass, including their linear shifting smart glass technology, film options, applications, timeline, and challenges in commercializing innovation. The presentation discusses strategies for startups to link their solutions to automotive industry drivers like safety, customer experience, and fuel efficiency. It outlines approaches to catalyzing automakers through technology licensing, working with tier suppliers, and determining fit and potential payoff within the ecosystem.
- The document discusses improving Magento's frontend by removing its default JavaScript (Prototype and Scriptaculous) and replacing it with modern libraries like jQuery, AngularJS, and Backbone for modular and responsive code.
- It recommends organizing CSS and JavaScript into reusable components to avoid spaghetti code, and using techniques like OOCSS, SASS, and pre-fetching to optimize performance.
- The key ideas are to think of pages as independent and reusable components, stay organized, and use the right technologies for dynamic and adaptive frontends.
The document provides information on programs offered at Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science & Technology (SIAST) including certificates and diplomas in areas such as business, engineering, health services, hospitality, and more. Requirements for admission include a minimum 50% in prior education and 12th grade completed along with an IELTS band of 6.0. Benefits of obtaining a degree from SIAST include easier permanent residency in Saskatchewan and services provided by Dhrron Consultancy such as IELTS coaching, career counseling, and airport pickup.
Eric Sword presented on using plugins to add common functionality to Grails applications. He demonstrated how to add authentication, testing, monitoring and other features using plugins to create a full-stack web application in Grails quickly. Sword emphasized the importance of testing and showed how plugins help integrate testing at different levels. He also provided resources for learning more about Grails and popular plugins.
The document discusses the history of censorship and access to information. It covers how totalitarian states censor information at the production point while capitalism censors at the distribution point. It also discusses cases like IBM aiding apartheid South Africa and hackers providing alternative technologies in response. The concept of information wanting to be free is explored, with the tension between information being valuable yet the cost to access it decreasing. South Africa's constitution protects access to information and privacy.
Guia de capacitação dos Agentes de DesenvolvimentoPedro Valadares
O documento fornece um guia de capacitações para Agentes de Desenvolvimento, com cursos divididos em três níveis (básico, complementar e avançado) e cinco categorias (desenvolvimento econômico, articulação, gestão, comunicação e orçamento). O guia lista detalhes sobre cada curso, como objetivo, carga horária e instituição responsável. O objetivo é orientar os Agentes sobre opções de educação continuada para que possam desempenhar melhor seu papel de promover o desenvolvimento econômico local.
The document provides information about admission requirements and courses offered at the College of New Caledonia including an official high school transcript, proof of English proficiency, and course options across various disciplines such as business, trades, health care, sciences and more. It also includes information about benefits of joining Dhrron Consultancy such as IELTS coaching, career counseling, accommodation assistance, and airport pickup for students interested in the college.
This document summarizes the key findings of the 2013 McGladrey Manufacturing & Distribution Monitor. It provides an overview of Scott Bjornstad from McGladrey LLP who presented the Monitor findings. The Monitor surveyed over 1,000 manufacturing and distribution businesses. Key findings included that business optimism increased from 2012 to 2013, regulatory policies were viewed as limiting growth, sales increased for most businesses, costs were expected to rise, and thriving businesses planned to increase hiring in the next year. Workforce challenges around finding skilled talent and increasing employee costs were also discussed.
This is a presentation on Open Product Data, as a part of the Open Data initiatives that are ongonig.
This presentation will be held at the OpenForum Europe Summit 2011.
This document discusses enabling customer engagement and collaboration for small and medium-sized enterprises through ubiquitous multi-channel ecosystems. It identifies several challenges that SMEs face in managing engagement across many online channels, including issues with scalability, costs, and domain personalization. The document proposes a semantic communication architecture called SCAI to help SMEs effectively manage communication and collaboration across multiple online channels in a scalable and cost-effective way.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new algorithm for influence maximization in social networks. The algorithm draws inspiration from previous works on community detection and a data-based credit distribution model. It first assigns credits to users based on their past actions to determine probabilistic influence between users. It then uses a community detection approach to identify groups of similar users before applying an influence maximization algorithm based on the independent cascade model. The proposed approach aims to better learn mutual influence from user data and improve time complexity by leveraging the relationship between community detection and viral marketing.
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This document proposes a new algorithm for influence maximization in social networks that combines approaches from two previous works. It first assigns influence values between users based on an analysis of their past actions, rather than random assignment. It then detects communities in the network and applies influence maximization within communities to improve computational efficiency. The algorithm is expected to provide a more accurate and faster method for this problem by leveraging credit distribution models and the relationship between community detection and viral marketing.
The network effects of the metaverse and the economies and business models of...The Metaverse Society
From linear business model to network-enabled business models
Today, most business models are linear with distinctive value chains. Linear businesses gain competitive advantage through controlling unique value chains that produce assets and drive transactions. They are characterized by a client-server structure at their technical and economic levels.
Network-based business models, which are easier to build with digital tools, on the other hand gain competitive advantages through building network effects, relationships and interactions. Internet and cloud technology enables business models based on networks with different value chains. They are characterized by zero marginal costs for adding users – and a direct relationship with users.
Network-based business models take advantage and include use of network economics, virtual company models and business ecosystems.
F.S. Nucci - Search as an architectural component: searching for a new paradigmFIA2010
The document discusses search as an architectural component and proposes a new paradigm for search in the future internet. It presents PHAROS, a SOA multimedia search platform built with reusable components and web services. PHAROS allows for easy customization and extensibility. The document also outlines challenges in multimodal content search and proposes a shift towards an open innovation and business ecosystem approach for search in multimedia domains.
The Web and the Collective Intelligence - How to use Collective Intelligence ...Hélio Teixeira
The Web and the Collective intelligence - How to use Collective Intelligence techniques to ensure that your web application can extract valuable data from its usage and deliver that value right back to the users.
Web 2.0 Collective Intelligence - How to use collective intelligence techniqu...Paul Gilbreath
Source: http://www.helioteixeira.org/ How to use Collective Intelligence techniques to ensure that your web application can extract valuable data from its usage and deliver that value right back to the users. (MODULE 1)
This document discusses building a knowledge sharing network for the third sector. It describes knowledge as both an object and a process that is contained within people's minds and files. Effective knowledge sharing networks realize individual, group, and organizational potential. Knowledge permeates networks like honey flows through a beehive, with communities constantly forming and dispersing. While no single application can meet all network needs, integrated solutions are emerging that combine discussion forums, repositories, project management, and other tools to add value to both online and in-person knowledge sharing.
This thesis examines rhetorical strategies used by customers in online communities to co-create value. It uses a case study of Salesforce.com's IdeaExchange community, analyzing 2018 comments. Ten rhetorical strategies were identified based on Aristotle's persuasive appeals. Some strategies like "Requesting Implementation" indicate high demand for an idea and promote value co-creation. Others like "Warning Strategy" aim to prevent implementation by arguing an idea contradicts social norms. However, "Criticizing Strategy" and "Provoking Strategy" were found to impede value by expressing ignored customer needs. The thesis constructs a "Model of Value Co-creation" illustrating how different strategies can promote or inhibit the experience.
This document provides an introduction and overview of the Wikirate project. Wikirate aims to increase transparency of corporate activities through crowdsourcing claims about companies on an open source, semantic wiki platform. It seeks to engage stakeholders in companies' operations through radical transparency and low barriers to participation. The project objectives are to create a database of companies' ethical behaviors and eventually provide personalized CSR ratings. It involves various partners contributing to different aspects like platform development, user experience design, and data processing.
Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: a conceptual framework
by
Wenger, Trayner and DeLaat
taken from SDC learning and networking blog:
https://www.sdc-learningandnetworking-blog.admin.ch/2015/07/15/the-value-of-networked-learning/
Intranet & Digital strategy survey - Synthesis 2017ARCTUS
This document summarizes the results of a survey conducted by Arctus on digital transformation and intranets in organizations. Some key findings include:
- Collaborative publishing and workspaces continue to gain ground, with project communities being available in nearly 80% of intranets.
- Social functions are growing rapidly, with 87% of companies having comment publishing and 80% having a like function. The ability to @mention members is up 10 points from last year.
- About 75% of companies have a mobility policy and 60% provide staff with smartphones/tablets, while 16% allow personal devices for work. One-third of collaborative and social tools are mobile accessible.
- The survey
Teigland, di gangi, & yetis setting the stage sunbeltRobin Teigland
The document discusses exploring the sustainability of private-collective communities, such as open source communities engaging with firms. It proposes using a stakeholder perspective and resource dependence theory to understand how these communities sustain themselves despite divergent stakeholder interests. The study examines the OpenSimulator community through interviews, archival data, and social network analysis to understand how interrelations among stakeholder groups influence sustainability over time. The goal is to understand the dynamics that allow private-collective communities to continue providing benefits to members long-term.
Smart Business Design In The Age of The Internet of ThingsHarbor Research
This document discusses the need for a new approach to developing ventures for the Internet of Things (IoT). Existing models used by corporations, venture capitalists, and private equity firms are not well-suited for early stage IoT opportunities. Large organizations also tend to have disconnected functions that inhibit collaboration needed to realize new smart systems opportunities. The document advocates for an integrated approach that leverages all available skills, relationships, experiences and assets to conceive, design, and develop smart systems and services.
Discovering Influential User by Coupling Multiplex Heterogeneous OSN’SIRJET Journal
This document proposes a framework for modeling and analyzing influence diffusion in multiplex online social networks (OSNs). It introduces coupling plans to represent how data spreads across overlapping users in multiple OSNs. Specifically, it proposes both lossless and lossy coupling plans to map multiple networks into a single network. Extensive tests on real and synthetic datasets show the coupling plans can effectively identify influential users by considering their roles across multiple OSNs. The framework provides insights into influence propagation in multiplex networks and can solve the minimum cost influence problem by exploiting algorithms for single networks.
A STEP-BY-STEP IMPLEMENTATION OF A CORPORATE SOCIAL NETWORK *Mehran Misaghi
Purpose: This paper demonstrate a step-by-step implementation of a corporate social network
involving employees, partners and customers considering cultural changes. It also demonstrates
the Corporate SNS evolution to a Daily Collaborative Work Platform incorporating Corporate
SNS and other tools as Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Business Process Management
(BPM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Mall (APP Store), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB),
Web Content Management (WCM), Identity Management (IDM), Analytics Tools, Portals like
Human Resources and Demand Management providing a single experience to their users.
Design / Methodology / Approach: This paper is a case study carried on in the biggest
developer of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in Latin America.
Results: The use of a Corporate Social Network starts as a project but in order to continually
being productive and generating results it should be necessary for this tool to become a routine
activity in all company.
Originality / Value: Social Network Sites (SNS) revolutionized human relationship in personal,
academic and professional ways, extending the range of connections bringing new forms of
communication. New technologies bring new opportunities but also bring challenges. The first
companies to learn about SNS use will enjoy a great competitive advantage, improving how to do
business and coordinate internal and external relationships and activities. A corporate social
network implementation is a good start to obtain the advantages of this new technology but, for
the companies to conquer a collaborative form of work, a cultural base for the proper use of the
platform is crucial.
A Baseline Based Deep Learning Approach of Live Tweetsijtsrd
In this scenario social media plays a vital role in influencing the life of people. Twitter , Facebook, Instagram etc are the major social media platforms . They act as a platform for users to raise their opinions on things and events around them. Twitter is one such micro blogging site that allows the user to tweet 6000 tweets per day each of 280 characters long. Data analyst rely on this data to reach conclusion on the events happening around and also to rate a product. But due to massive volume of reviews the analysts find it difficult to go through them and reach at conclusions. In order to solve this problem we adopt the method of sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis is an approach to classify the sentiment of user reviews, documents etc in terms of positive good , negative bad , neutral surprise . I suggest an enhanced twitter sentiment analysis that retrieves data based on a baseline in a particular pre defined time span and performs sentiment analysis using Textblob . This scheme differs from the traditional and existing one which performs sentiment analysis on pre saved data by performing sentiment analysis on real time data fetched via Twitter API . Thereby providing a much recent and relevant conclusion. Anjana Jimmington ""A Baseline Based Deep Learning Approach of Live Tweets"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23918.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/other/23918/a-baseline-based-deep-learning-approach-of-live-tweets/anjana-jimmington
Towards Pattern Literacy - The Biosemiotic Underpinnings of Patterning & Lang...Helene Finidori
Exploring the role of semiosis & patterns in the emergence of human cognition & language from an evolutionary biology perspective.
Investigating the limits of language as coordination tool for addressing complexity & knowledge fragmentation.
This is part of a broader doctoral research on Pattern Literacy in support of Systems Literacy.
Presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences - Oregon State University – Corvallis - June 2019
The document summarizes the results of an ongoing survey regarding patterns conducted by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS) Research Group. As of mid-June, the survey had received 139 responses from a variety of disciplines. The survey is still open and the researchers hope to receive more responses over time. The document provides word clouds and cluster analyses of the open-ended responses regarding how people define and understand patterns. It also shares examples of images, uses of patterns, and applications of patterns provided by respondents. The researchers plan further analysis of the data and to share additional results in the coming months.
Configuring patterns for systemic design - PUARL 2018 conferenceHelene Finidori
This was presented at the PUARL 2018 conference, in the context of the evolution of pattern languages, and of the discussion of how much needs to be ‘changed’ in current approaches to address current and future design issues.
It is an exploration on how patterns and pattern languages could be structured and used to tackle wicked societal problems.
I am looking into the qualities and properties of patterns in relation to embodied cognition and systems; revisiting the problem-solution connection and association; examining generativity and ways to sort out entangled mechanisms at various levels and scales; questioning the extend of the act of design, and the role and responsibility of the designer; and suggesting ways forward.
Patterns as connectors of multiple realities - ISSS 2018 ConferenceHelene Finidori
This is the final version of my presentation at ISSS 2018.
In this paper, I explore to what extend the development of a pattern literacy can serve the understanding, orientation and design of complex systems, while attempting to cross epistemological and ontological divides. In particular, I examine the role of patterns as decoding and encoding tools, and their potential to enable the breaking down and construction of architectures of meaning at various levels of granularity, starting from our perceptions of the world as we encounter and make sense of it, to the habits we take and behaviors we display as we interact with it, and finally to the more elaborate designs we unleash in the world intentionally or not, that may take a life of their own. I then examine how the versatility and ‘plasticity’ of the concept of pattern and forms that patterns take, can help recursively decode and encode different views and perspectives of knowledge and reality both in understanding and design, and reflect on how patterns can be used in interpretive methods of inquiry and creative thinking to respond to the challenges I described above.
Apologies for the redundancy. Slideshare has eliminated the reupload feature that allowed us to make corrections and clarify things after initial posting, making redundant postings inevitable, and duplicating the work each time a new version is posted. This is a serious impediment to good data and knowledge management and knowledge sharing.
Pattern Literacy in Support of Systems LiteracyHelene Finidori
This document discusses the development of pattern literacy and systems literacy. It proposes that pattern literacy can enhance systems literacy by leveraging humans' innate ability to recognize patterns. Patterns can connect different aspects and representations of systems. The document explores developing a "theory of patterns" and an operating system for pattern literacy to facilitate recognizing, categorizing, and relating patterns towards understanding systems principles. The goal is to build skills for discerning and representing systems using patterns to support systems thinking.
Patterns that Connect: Exploring the concept of pattern in the face of growin...Helene Finidori
The first part of the talk examines the challenges brought about by the exponential growth of information and dynamic complexity, and the types of responses needed in order to address these challenges from an agency perspective. The second part outlines various functions and possibilities underlying the concept of pattern in the areas of cybernetics, semiotics, cognition, modeling, design and participative inquiry, and examines how they could be operationalized at the service of systemic literacy and collective intelligence.
The video recorded talk is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps8ocO6yG68&feature=youtu.be&t=1m52s
There's a paper available here: https://www.academia.edu/27465412/Patterns_that_Connect_Exploring_The_Potential_of_Patterns_and_Pattern_Languages_in_Systemic_Interventions_Towards_Realizing_Sustainable_Futures
Les biens communs comme logique sous jacente pour fédérer les efforts disparates de changement social et de développement durable? Une présentation à la conférence 'Imagine the Common Good' conference, Paris, Août 2013, panel Diversité culturelle et bien commun.
English version: http://www.slideshare.net/helenefinidori/imagine-thecommongoodconf2013
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
"Learn about all the ways Walmart supports nonprofit organizations.
You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
The webinar may also give some examples on how nonprofits can best leverage Walmart Business+.
The event will cover the following::
Walmart Business + (https://business.walmart.com/plus) is a new shopping experience for nonprofits, schools, and local business customers that connects an exclusive online shopping experience to stores. Benefits include free delivery and shipping, a 'Spend Analytics” feature, special discounts, deals and tax-exempt shopping.
Special TechSoup offer for a free 180 days membership, and up to $150 in discounts on eligible orders.
Spark Good (walmart.com/sparkgood) is a charitable platform that enables nonprofits to receive donations directly from customers and associates.
Answers about how you can do more with Walmart!"
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
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LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
9
Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
Main Java[All of the Base Concepts}.docxadhitya5119
This is part 1 of my Java Learning Journey. This Contains Custom methods, classes, constructors, packages, multithreading , try- catch block, finally block and more.
বাংলাদেশের অর্থনৈতিক সমীক্ষা ২০২৪ [Bangladesh Economic Review 2024 Bangla.pdf] কম্পিউটার , ট্যাব ও স্মার্ট ফোন ভার্সন সহ সম্পূর্ণ বাংলা ই-বুক বা pdf বই " সুচিপত্র ...বুকমার্ক মেনু 🔖 ও হাইপার লিংক মেনু 📝👆 যুক্ত ..
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How to Setup Warehouse & Location in Odoo 17 InventoryCeline George
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A strategic Analysis of Knowledge Sharing and Social Change Platforms
1.
A
Strategic
Analysis
of
Knowledge
Exchange
and
Social
Change
Pla9orms
Posi;oning
the
PLAST
Project
Helene Finidori CC BY - SA
2. The
present
analysis
of
the
sustainability
of
pla2orms
for
social
engagement
and
social
empowerment
incorporates
insights
derived
from
the
exponen:al
growth
of
web
based
businesses.
The
@pentagrowth
model
on
which
it
is
based
was
elaborated
from
a
study
of
50
web
businesses
that
achieved
annual
growth
of
greater
than
50
percent
per
annum
(in
revenue,
number
of
users
and
impact)
for
five
consecu:ve
years
from
2008.
The
study
iden:fied
five
laws
for
exponen:al
growth
and,
on
this
basis,
five
levers,
each
with
a
scale
onto
which
various
business
models
can
be
posi:oned.
Creus,
Javier,
2015,
@PENTAGROWTH
REPORT:
The
five
levers
of
accelerated
growth.
A
new
point
of
view
on
the
keys
for
growth
for
organizaDons
in
the
digital
environment
of
the
XXI
century.
Ideas
for
Change
.
hIp://pentagrowth.com/report/
Adap;ng
the
@pentagrowth
Model
3. The
five
laws
that
characterize
the
poten:al
for
a
pla2orm
to
grow
exponen:ally
as
iden:fied
in
the
@pentagrowth
study
are
the
following:
● Collect:
the
smaller
the
effort
an
organisa:on
requires
to
build
its
available
inventory,
the
greater
its
poten:al
to
leverage
those
assets.
● Connect:
the
larger
the
number
of
nodes
that
an
organisa:on
connects,
the
greater
the
poten:al
of
the
organisa:on.
● Empower:
the
larger
the
number
of
capaci:es
of
its
users
that
an
organiza:on
integrates
into
its
business,
the
greater
its
poten:al
growth.
● Enable:
the
larger
the
number
of
value
creators
that
use
the
tools
provided
by
the
organisa:on
to
generate
their
own
business,
the
greater
its
growth
poten:al.
● Share:
the
larger
the
community
that
shares
a
sense
of
resource
ownership
with
the
organiza:on,
the
greater
the
organisa:on’s
growth
poten:al.
4. The
@pentagrowth
laws
were
adapted
into
levers
and
scales
allowing
to
describe
the
business
models
observed.
We
adapted
the
@pentagrowth
model
and
its
scales
to
evaluate,
from
the
perspec:ve
of
user
experience
and
its
effect
on
the
scalability
and
sustainability
of
a
pla2orm,
a
variety
of
the
state-‐of-‐the-‐art
knowledge
co-‐crea:on
and
exchange
pla2orms
and
prac:ces:
maps,
online
encyclopedia
of
the
first
genera:on,
wikis,
sustainability
social
networks,
knowledge
commons
of
open
source
soTware,
systems
thinking
prac:ce,
paIern
language
prac:ce.
The
five
levers
(derived
from
the
original
model)
and
the
scales
we
adapted
for
the
present
study
follow.
5.
Collect
In
the
@pentagrowth
model,
the
smaller
the
effort
an
organisa:on
requires
to
build
its
available
inventory
(centralized,
decentralized,
commons),
the
greater
its
poten:al
to
leverage
those
assets.
In
our
adapted
model,
the
inventory
is
both
what
the
pla2orm
aIracts
and
what
it
builds.
It
emphasises
the
‘connectability’
of
the
elements,
their
ease
of
discovery
and
sharability,
their
‘aIrac:on’
and
‘ac:va:on’
power,
and
ul:mately
how
they
can
mobilise
higher
levels
of
usage
by
leveraging
network
effects.
Our
scale
ranges
from
collec:ng
single
instances/objects
(such
as
people,
organiza:ons,
events
in
a
map
or
directory),
through
networks
of
objects
(such
as
processes,
inter-‐related
knowledge
bases,
groups
of
users
in
a
wiki
or
social
network),
to
systems
with
their
inten:ons,
‘objects’,
processes,
and
outcomes
(such as an organisation).
!
The
more
‘genera8ve’
the
elements
collected,
the
greater
the
poten8al
for
a=rac8on
and
connec8on.
Collect
Inventory
Instances
Systems
Networks
6.
Connect
In
the
@pentragrowth
model,
the
larger
the
number
of
nodes
(people,
situa:ons,
things)
that
an
organisa:on
connects,
the
greater
the
poten:al
of
the
organisa:on.
In
our
adapted
model,
we
not
only
consider
the
number
of
nodes
connected
but
also
the
genera:ve
quality
and
enabling
poten:al
of
the
connec:ons
to
produce
an
op:mal
flow
between
the
parts.
This
is
best
achieved
through
shared
social-‐objects.
Our
scale
ranges
from
connec:ng
people
(such
as
in
a
social
network),
to
connec:ng
knowledge/ideas
(such
as
in
a
wiki)
to
connec:ng
praxis
and
thus
ac:on
(such
as
in
a
repository
recording
s:gmerge:c
memory).
!
The
closer
to
praxis
and
ac8on
the
connec8ons
are
made,
the
greater
the
poten8al
for
produc8ve
interac8ons.
Engeström,
Jyri.
Why
some
social
network
services
work
and
others
don’t
—
Or:
the
case
for
object-‐centered
sociality
<hIp://bit.ly/1oL6JfM>
[Accessed
10th
April
2015]
Connect
Poten;al
People
Praxis
Knowledge
7. Empower
In
the
@pentagrowth
model,
the
larger
the
number
of
capaci:es
of
users
(as
users,
producers
or
other
role)
that
an
organiza:on
integrates
into
its
business,
the
greater
its
poten:al
growth.
In
our
adapted
model,
in
addi:on
to
the
number
of
capaci:es
or
roles,
we
also
focus
on
the
diversity
and
scale
of
capabili:es
of
users
the
pla2orm
can
unleash
to
maximize
individual
and
collec:ve
agency
and
help
drive
change
across
domains.
Our
scale
ranges
from
empowering
individuals
(to
generate
autonomy),
to
empowering
collabora:ons
and
communi:es
(to
generate
convergence,
cohesiveness),
to
empowering
en:re
diverse
ecosystems
(to
generate
polycentric
coherence
and
coalescence/mutual
reinforcement
of
effects)
!
The
greater
the
diversity
and
scale
of
agencies
empowered,
the
greater
the
poten8al
for
systemic
transforma8on.
Empower
Agency
Individuals
Ecosystems
Collabora:ons
8.
Enable
In
the
@pentagrowth
model,
the
larger
the
number
of
value
creators
that
use
the
tools
provided
by
the
organisa:on
to
generate
their
own
business
(provide,
co-‐
market,
co-‐create),
the
greater
its
growth
poten:al.
Our
adapted
model
focuses
on
the
responsibility
for
the
provision
of
content
and
tools
to
users
to
create
their
own
value
and
the
incen:ve,
empowerment
and
agency
of
users
to
maintain
these
generators
of
value.
Our
scale
ranges
from
provide
(content),
to
co-‐produce
(ac:onable
knowledge),
to
co-‐nurture
(a
whole
genera:ve
system,
the
pla2orm
itself).
!
The
greater
the
incen8ve
for
users
to
co-‐nurture
the
whole
plaCorm
system,
the
greater
the
poten8al
for
keeping
the
content
and
tools
updated
and
alive.
Enable
Value
Provide
Co-‐nurture
Co-‐produce
9. Share
In
the
@pentagrowth
model,
the
larger
the
community
that
has
a
shared
sense
of
resource
ownership
with
the
organiza:on
(proprietary,
non
commercial,
open),
the
greater
the
organisa:on’s
growth
poten:al.
Our
adapted
model
takes
open
as
a
given,
and
focuses
on
the
degrees
of
joint
sense
of
ownership
of
the
pla2orm
itself.
Whether
a
user
has
access
to
plain
informa:on,
or
a
system
of
ac:onable
items,
will
affect
their
iden:fica:on
with,
adop:on
and
shaping
(via
content,
processes
of
co-‐produc:on
and
governance)
of,
a
pla2orm.
Our
scale
ranges
from
a
joint
sense
of
ownership
of
output,
process,
or
system.
!
The
greater
the
appropria8on
of
the
whole
system
by
its
users,
the
greater
the
incen8ve
for
the
on-‐going
shaping
and
adapta8on
of
the
plaCorm
to
needs.
Share
Ownership
Output
System
Process
10. The
correla:on
between
levers
display
the
essen:al
quali:es
pla2orms
must
have
to
grow,
scale
and
thrive.
Here
again,
our
correla:ons
are
different
from
the
@pentagrowth.
Between
Collect
and
Connect,
the
quan:ty
and
quality
of
what
is
collected
and
therefore
the
poten:al
for
connec:on
and
for
produc:ve
interac:on
influences
the
extent
of
possibili:es
that
can
be
unleashed,
and
thus
the
Scope
of
the
pla2orm,
and
ul:mately
its
ability
to
scale.
Collect
Inventory
Connect
Poten;al
Instances
Systems
Networks
web
11.
Between
Connect
and
Empower,
the
poten:al
to
connect
a
variety
of
kinds
of
agencies
and
capabili:es
and
ini:ate
a
flow
of
produc:ve
interac:ons,
determines
the
Reach,
or
capacity
for
transforma:on
and
impact
brought
by
the
pla2orm’s
ac:vity.
Connect
Poten;al
Empower
Agency
web
Our
examples
will
be
posi:oned
on
this
web
graph
12.
At
the
intersec:on
of
Empower
and
Enable,
polycentric
agency
combined
with
the
ability
to
generate
value,
maximizes
the
poten:al
for
Actualiza;on
across
the
board.
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
13.
With
Share
and
Enable,
the
sense
of
ownership
and
on-‐going
regenera:on
of
pla2orm
output
as
well
as
processes
and
infrastructure
by
its
community
are
the
drivers
for
the
Sustainability
both
of
the
prac:ce,
the
system
enabled
by
the
pla2orm,
and
the
pla2orm
itself.
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
14.
Between
Share
and
Collect,
how
shared
inventory
is
renewed
and
kept
alive
by
a
community,
determines
the
Resilience
of
the
pla2orm
as
genera:ve
system,
and
its
capacity
to
adapt
to
change.
Collect
Inventory
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
web
15. Collect
Inventory
Connect
Poten;al
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
Our
examples
will
be
posi:oned
on
this
web
graph
16. Visualizing
Informa;on
-‐
Maps
Collect
instances
up
to
generaDve
systems
,
Connect
praxis
Ephemeral
Empowering,
Sharing
and
Enabling
Maps
are
excellent
tools
to
promote
visibility
of
something
-‐-‐
to
provide
an
inventory
of
instances
and
locate
it,
geographically
or
in
a
classifica:on.
The
open
mapping
soTware
Ushahidi
developed
in
Kenya
to
report
post
presiden:al
elec:on
violence
in
2007
has
successfully
been
used
for
emergency
repor:ng.
In
2010,
40,000
reports
were
sent
out
and
4000
districts
covered
in
the
aTermath
of
the
Hai:
earthquake.
Crowd-‐sourced
maps
have
been
popular
since
then
in
par:cular
for
ac:vism
mapping
or
alterna:ve
solu:ons
mapping.
Most
of
the
solu:ons
associated
to
social
change
are
related
to
mapping.
The
risk
however
is
‘one
shot
mapping’.
Maps
that
are
created
around
a
specific
event
and
an
immediate
need
for
ac:on
(by
ac:va:ng
the
‘empower’
lever),
quickly
become
obsolete
without
ongoing
ac:vity;
this
is
true
for
geographical
maps,
and
inventories,
but
also
more
spohis:cated
maps
such
as
mind
maps,
ontologies,
or
genera:ve
systems.
A
dedicated
blog
called
Dead
Ushahidi,
(which
used
to
map
dead
crowdmaps
and
is
now
dead
itself!),
lists
the
shortcomings
of
crowdsourced
maps:
“Mapping
doesn't
equal
change…
Just
because
you
built
it
doesn't
mean
they
will
come”.
Maps
that
predominantly
push
the
‘collect’
lever
need
sense
of
ownership
(‘share’
lever)
and
ac:vity
or
ac:on
(‘enable’
lever)
to
achieve
network
effect,
scale,
and
remain
alive.
hIps://deadushahidi.crowdmap.com/page/index/1
[Retrieved
10
April
2015]
17. Collect
Inventory
Connect
Poten;al
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
Maps
web
web
18. Digital
Encyclopedias
Collect
networks
and
Connect
knowledge
Weak
on
Empowering,
Sharing
and
Enabling
First
genera:on
digital
encyclopedias
started
as
online
versions
of
paper
encyclopedias.
The
currently
stalled,
but
soon
to
be
re-‐launched,
Encyclopedia
of
World
Problems
and
Human
PotenDal
is
a
good
example
of
a
database
of
sustainability-‐
related
knowledge
comprising
systemic
inquiry
using
paIern-‐like
templates,
with
a
pluralis:c
approach
such
as
we
are
developing
in
the
PLAST
project.
It
was
started
in
1972
as
a
paper
encyclopedia
(first
published
in
1976)
by
the
Union
of
Interna:onal
Associa:ons
(UIA)
and
Mankind
2000,
to
collect
and
present
informa:on
on
the
problems
humanity
is
confronted
with,
as
well
as
the
challenges
such
problems
pose
to
concept
forma:on,
values
and
development
strategies
from
a
broad
range
of
perspec:ves.
The
Encyclopedia
was
digi:zed
in
1996,
brought
to
the
web
in
1998,
and
opened
to
the
public
in
1999.
The
informa:on
content
was
collated
mainly
from
civil
society,
including
materials
produced
by
the
20,000+
interna:onal
organisa:ons
profiled
regularly
in
UIA’s
Yearbook
of
InternaDonal
OrganizaDons;
then
classified,
structured
(into
open
hierarchies
and
causal
chains),
recombined
and
made
accessible
through
AI-‐like
mechanisms.
The
team
struggled
with
the
challenge
of
connec:ng
the
knowledge
so
produced
with
poten:al
users.
“Who
is
that
for?”
or
“How
would
I
use
this?”were
ques:ons
that
oTen
asked
by
UIA
members.
The
Encyclopedia’s
co-‐founder,
Anthony
Judge,
recalls
debates
about
the
difficulty
to
pin
down
problems
and
the
diverging
priori:es
of
the
various
stakeholders
on
the
most
pressing
issues.
Judge
also
men:ons
the
lack
of
tools
available
at
the
:me
to
represent
and
navigate
complex
forms
of
informa:on
in
graphic
form.
The
Encyclopedia
was
created
to
collect
and
connect
knowledge
based
on
a
systemic
concept
similar
to
PLAST’s;
but
with
very
liIle
use
of
sharing,
empowering
and
enabling
levers
(ownership
taken
by
users
and
the
community
in
terms
of
maintenance
of
both
the
knowledge
and
the
tools).
The
Encyclopedia’s
ac:vity
started
to
slow
down
around
2005
for
want
of
funding,
stopping
completely
in
2008.
hIp://www.uia.org/encyclopedia
[retrieved
5
April
2015]
Commentaries
on
Encyclopedia
of
World
Problems
and
Human
Poten:al.
hIp://kairos.laetusinpraesens.org/encycom_ee
[retrieved
10
April
2015]
Judge,
Anthony,
1991,
Encyclopedia
Illusions:
Ra:onale
for
an
Encyclopedia
of
World
Problems
and
Human
Poten:al.
hIp://kairos.laetusinpraesens.org/91enill_9_h_1
[retrieved
10
April
2015]
Encyclopedia
of
World
Problems
and
Human
Poten:al,
Assessment:
Strengths
and
weaknesses.
hIp://kairos.laetusinpraesens.org/43assess_ee
[retrieved
10
April
2015]
19. Encyclopedia
UIA
web
web
Collect
Inventory
Connect
Poten;al
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
20. Sharing
Informa;on
-‐
Social
Networks
Collect
networks,
moderate
Connec;on
of
knowledge
Weak
on
Empowering,
Enabling,
Sharing
of
the
resource
Probably
the
most
striking
state-‐of-‐the-‐art
example
is
Wiser
Earth
(Wiser
standing
for
World
Index
for
Social
and
Environmental
Responsibility).
Started
in
2007
as
a
directory
of
non-‐profit
organiza:ons,
it
became
a
social
network
in
2009.
Wiser
was
organized
around
a
master
list
of
issues
which
were
"networked"
in
such
a
way
that
registered
users
could
edit
the
"connec:ons"
of
each
issue
to
organiza:ons,
resources,
jobs,
events
and
groups.
The
website
featured
groupware
and
social
networking
components,
including
graphical
"network
maps".
Despite
having
115,000
organiza:on
members
and
80,000
individual
members,
3000
working
groups,
and
eight
million
pages
of
published
content,
Wiser
closed
down
in
2014,
ostensibly
because
the
organiza:on
could
not
keep
up
with
the
technology.
The
official
leIer
stated:
“...maintaining
social
media
pla2orms
and
tools
comes
at
a
cost.
The
soTware
technologies
that
we
are
using
need
con:nual
maintenance
and
upgrades.”
(source
Wikipedia).
Off
the
record,
addi:onal
reasons
for
the
shut-‐down
included
an
accumula:on
of
informa:on
that
was
hardly
ever
updated
and
insufficient
ac:vity
and
cross-‐pollina:on
among
groups,
rendering
the
project
sub-‐viable
and
unable
to
jus:fy
the
costs
of
maintenance
of
the
site.
Wiser
collected
communi:es
around
issues
and
sustainability
domains;
the
social
mechanism
adopted
allowed
(and
required)
users
to
connect
to
each
other
and
to
issues.
Users
who
were
empowered
to
co-‐create
did
not
maintain
and
curate
the
connec:ons
and
knowledge
they
had
produced.
This
knowledge
was
not
vital
to
them.
It
did
not
provide
a
return
in
livelihood
or
achievement
that
would
jus:fy
the
:me
they
invested
in
contribu:ng
to
the
content
and
ac:vi:es.
The
membership
scaled,
but
the
quality
of
the
data
and
the
interac:ons
did
not
follow.
There
were
few
bridges
across
silos.
Without
a
sense
of
ownership
that
users
acquire
when
they
are
not
only
empowered
but
also
enabled,
a
community
does
not
take
care
of
a
pla2orm.
The
burden
falls
on
the
shoulders
of
the
centralized
ini:a:ng
organiza:on,
which
cannot
follow.
Wiser.org
Wikipedia
entry
<hIp://bit.ly/1Fwwmnv>[Retrived
10
April
2015]
Wiser
Earth’s
Execu:ve
director’s
leIer
<hIp://bit.ly/1ckwvDF>[Retrived
10
April
2015]
21. Wiser
Earth
web
web
Collect
Inventory
Connect
Poten;al
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
22. Co-‐Producing
Knowledge
-‐
Wikis
Collect
networks
and
Connect
knowledge,
Share
process,
Empower
autonomy,
Enable
co-‐produc:on.
Wikipedia
is
the
state-‐of-‐the-‐art
example
of
successful
applica:on
of
wiki
to
the
aggrega:on
and
interconnec:on
of
knowledge.
With
the
help
of
its
editors,
the
wiki
has
evolved
into
a
structure
able
to
produce
a
working
reliability
of
informa:on,
with
processes
that,
“[F]oster
the
‘federa:on’
of
knowledge,
a
network
of
voices
that
don’t
exactly
say
the
same
thing,
but
that
contribute,
through
their
very
diversity,
to
a
larger
whole.
From
that
larger
whole,
a
working
consensus
can
emerge.”
The
working
consensus
allows
a
meta-‐stabiliza:on
of
the
knowledge
for
a
key
por:on
of
what
is
produced,
and
flagging
of
content
with
liIle
certainty
and
a
lot
of
controversy
as
uncertain
or
un-‐resolved,
and
documented
as
such.
The
editor
survey
undertaken
in
2011,
however,
notes
a
decline
in
editor
par:cipa:on
across
languages,
a
possible
consequence
of
“edit
wars”
and
harassment
reported
by
editors.
This
has
caused
Wikipedia
to
adopt
more
rigid
editorial
rules
and
precau:ons.
There
is
a
dilemma,
however:
on
the
one
hand
that
heavier
top-‐down
cura:on
of
knowledge
disempowers
poten:al
contributors
and
works
against
par:cipa:ve
content-‐sharing;
on
the
other
hand,
completely
free
and
open
edi:ng
endangers
the
quality
of
the
content,
which
then
may
discourage
par:cipa:on
from
well-‐meaning
editors
and
drive
away
readers.
Regarding
the
levers,
Wikipedia
collects
and
connects
knowledge,
empowers
its
users
for
co-‐crea:on,
and
shares
through
common
ownership
of
the
process,
co-‐crea:on
of
content
and
co-‐development
of
the
Wikimedia
tool.
Wikipedia
does
not
enable
the
building
of
market,
i.e.
a
livelihood-‐sustaining
system
based
on
the
commons.
Producers
of
Wikipedia,
the
editors,
are
not
the
ones
who
benefit
from
its
usage,
or
not
in
a
direct
way.
To
some
observers,
the
model
that
relies
on
editors’
pride
and
personal
fulfillment
is
a
fragile
one.
Wikimedia
Founda:on
(2011).
Wikipedia
Editors
Study:
Results
from
the
Editor
Survey,
April
2011.
<hIp://bit.ly/1Fl9Qhi>[Retrieved
5
April
2015]
Cunningham
op.
cit.
Postrel,
V.
(2014).
Who
killed
Wikipedia?
Pacific
Standard
Nov.
2014
<hIp://bit.ly/1DjOPXn>[Retrieved
5
April
2015]
hIp://paIern-‐library.sec-‐bridge.eu/paIern-‐library/
[retrieved
5.
April
2015]
hIp://polemictweet.com/about.php
[retrieved
5.
April
2015]
Reiners,,
R.
(2014).
An
Evolving
PaIern
Library
for
Collabora:ve
Project
Documenta:on.
Shaker
Aachen,
Germany
Jemielniak
D.
(2014),
Common
Knowledge?
An
Ethnography
of
Wikipedia,
Stanford
University
Press
23. Wikipedia
web
web
Collect
Inventory
Connect
Poten;al
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
24. Prac;cal
knowledge/Specialized
wikis
Collect
networks
and
Connect
praxis,
Share
output,
moderately
Empower
collabora:on
and
weak
Enablement
Wikipedia
has
reached
the
cri:cal
mass
that
enables
it
to
collect
and
evolve
a
huge
corpus
of
interconnected
diversified
knowledge
and
to
aIract
a
large
community
of
knowledge
producers
to
keep
it
alive.
Smaller
specialized
communi:es,
such
as
Apropedia
and
the
P2P
Founda:on,
seek
to
provide
their
members
with
working
knowledge.
There
are,
however,
few
resources
to
document
the
prac:cal
applica:on
and
results
of
implementa:on
of
such
working
knowledge
to
feed
back
into
the
knowledge
base.
The
format
and
interoperability
of
the
knowledge,
the
degree
of
upda:ng
and
cura:on
of
the
knowledge,
and
the
size
of
the
ac:ve
contribu:ng
communi:es,
are
variable.
However,
many
ac:ve
members
of
these
communi:es
share
how
difficult
it
is
to
keep
par:cipa:on
going
and
to
keep
the
data
alive.
Many
users
also
complain
about
the
difficulty
of
querying
and
naviga:ng
basic
wikis
where
naviga:on
relies
on
the
categoriza:on
of
the
data,
something
communi:es
don’t
always
do
well.
Because
of
the
split
between
administrators
and
users,
par:cipants
may
not
feel
a
sense
of
shared
ownership
or
responsibility.
Small
communi:es
would
benefit
from
the
structure
and
interoperability
of
the
paIern
language
format,
from
the
possibility
to
develop
and
maintain
their
own
repositories
of
paIerns
and
from
the
perspec:ve
gained
by
exploring
greater
bodies
of
knowledge
to
find
challenges,
analyses,
prac:ces
and
models
relevant
to
their
ac:vity
which
can
help
deepen
and
expand
the
reach
and
possibili:es
of
the
community.
25. Specialized
Wikis
Collect
Inventory
Connect
Poten;al
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
26. Co-‐Producing
Value
-‐
Linux
+
Git
Knowledge
commons
of
open
source
soTware
Collect
genera:ve
processes
and
Connect
ac:on,
Share
system,
Empower
cohesiveness
and
Enable
co-‐nurturing
Linux
is
not
strictly
speaking
a
pla2orm
for
collec:ve
awareness.
Nonetheless,
it
is
based
on
superla:ve
communal
principles
and
mechanisms
and
cons:tutes
one
of
the
most
sustainable
genera:ve
systems
using
the
internet.
Different
from
Wikipedia
and
most
other
knowledge
repositories,
the
users
of
Linux
are
also
the
producers
of
their
knowledge
commons
and
build
their
livelihoods
from
it.
By
observing
the
Linux
community
of
prac:ce,
we
learn
that
a
mature
knowledge
commons
has
the
following
elements:
knowledge,
media,
user
community,
rules
of
engagement,
use
and
evalua:on
processes,
and
livelihood
genera:ng
capacity;
it
operates
as
a
dynamic
en:ty,
maintained
and
evolving
through
the
constant
prac:cal
engagement
of
its
user
community.
Linux
community
praxis
scores
highly
on
all
the
levers
of
growth.
However,
being
a
homogenous
community
with
conscribed
purpose,
it
does
not
bridge
diversity
between
domains.
Of
par:cular
interest
in
rela:on
to
knowledge
exchange
is
the
Git
fork/merge
system,
which
renders
the
capacity
to
copy
all
or
part
of
the
soTware,
modify
it
and
bring
the
modified
instance
back
into
the
repository.
The
benefit
here
is
that
1)
what
is
distributed
among
a
mul:tude
of
users
can
be
consolidated
in
a
common
repository
(actually
an
ecosystem
of
interrelated
repositories)
that
captures
the
collec:ve
intelligence
of
the
community;
2)
it
encourages
broad
par:cipa:on
by
welcoming
any
user
and
form
of
involvement
at
the
‘local’
repository
level
while
ensuring
an
overall
quality
control
with
mul:ple
possibili:es
of
'filtering'
on
the
‘validated’
product;
and
3)
it
fosters
a
sense
of
ownership
of
the
users/producers
over
the
whole
system.
In
this
text
we
use
Linux
as
short
for
“GNU/Linux”,
i.e.
the
well
known
open
source
opera:ng
system.
Strictly
speaking
“Linux”
refers
just
to
the
kernel
or
heart
of
the
system.
Hess,
C.
&
E.
Ostrom,
2007.
Understanding
Knowledge
as
a
Commons:
from
theory
to
prac:ce.
Cambridge
MA:
MIT
Press.
Bauwens,
M.
(2012).
A
Synthe:c
Overview
of
the
Collabora:ve
Economy.
P2P
FoundaDon
-‐
Orange
Labs
<hIp://oran.ge/1FrbbZB>[Retrieved
10
April
2015]
27. Linux
on
Git
web
web
Collect
Inventory
Connect
Poten;al
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
28. Systems
Thinking
as
prac;ce
Connect
praxis
at
the
local
level,
unsystema:c
Collect
Empower
individuals,
weak
Enable
and
Share
other
than
local
There
are
many
similari:es
between
systems
thinking
and
paIern
thinking
(of
which
paIern
language
is
a
tool).
Both
approach
problem
solving
viewing
"problems"
as
parts
of
an
overall
system.
Like
paIern
thinking,
systems
thinking
is
based
on
the
idea
that
the
components
of
a
system
cannot
be
seen
in
isola:on,
but
rather
in
the
context
of
the
rela:onships
they
have
with
each
other,
with
the
whole,
and
with
other
systems.
Most
systems
thinking
prac:ce
focuses
on
simula:on
of
a
situa:on’s
structure:
describing
the
underlying
paIerns
of
behavior,
the
underlying
structures
responsible
for
the
paIern
of
behavior
that
unfolds,
and
the
mental
models
responsible
for
the
underlying
structures.
PaIerns
of
behavior
are
usually
expressed
as
circles
of
causality;
those
with
similar
structure
are
recognised
as
system
archetypes.
Also
iden:fied
are
leverage
points
that
enable
efficient
changes
in
the
system.
System
archetypes
are
similar
to
paIerns.
A
major
difference
is
that
they
are
composed
of
closed
loops
that
are
‘performa:ve’
on
their
own,
whereas
systems
of
paIerns
are
chainings
or
combina:ons
of
elements
that
can
be
probed
at
each
link.
System
thinking
is
best
applied
to
situa:ons
where
stakeholders
can
agree
on
a
methodology
(there
are
many
available)
and
on
the
boundaries
of
an
issue.
However,
the
:me
it
takes
to
reach
agreement
on
the
boundaries
of
the
system
being
studied
(as
this
system
is
inextricably
part
of
a
larger
system
so
boundaries
are
always
arbitrary),
and
the
difficulty
of
choosing
a
place
to
start
understanding
and
probing
a
systemic
model
that
is
expressed
in
circles
of
causal
loops
are
probably
reasons
why
systems
thinking
hasn’t
been
adopted
more
widely.
A
pressing
ques:on
currently
among
systems
thinking
prac::oners
is:
how
to
conduct
a
systemic
inquiry
in
an
orderly,
repeatable
and
understandable
fashion.
The
systems
thinking
and
paIern
language
communi:es
can
gain
a
lot
by
working
together,
systems
thinking
bringing
more
depth
to
the
systemic
inquiry
of
paIern
languages.
Systems
thinking
would
gain
by
having
its
approaches,
archetypes
and
models
formaIed
more
systema:cally,
and
in
iterable
ways,
with
a
documenta:on
framework
that
allow
hypothesis
and
incremental
probing
in
a
design
driven
process.
Systems
Thinking
Methodologies,
Systemswiki.org.<hIp://bit.ly/1CKKg3N>
[Retrieved
10
April
2015]
Systems
Thinking,
a
Disciplined
Approach,
Systems-‐Thinking.org.
<hIp://bit.ly/1NuFHWL>[Retrieved
10
April
2015]
Senge,
Peter
M.
(1990),
The
FiTh
Discipline,
Doubleday/Currency
Meadows,
D.H.
(1997).
“Leverage
Points:
Places
to
Intervene
in
a
System”
<hIp://bit.ly/1rsFIdv>
[retrieved
5
April
2015]
Ing,
D.,
2014.
Systems
genera:ng
systems
-‐
architecture
design
theory
by
Christopher
Alexander
(1968).
<hIp://bit.ly/1Eq8N3A>
[Accessed
April
5th
2015].
29. Systems
Thinking
(analog)
web
web
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Inventory
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Poten;al
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
30. PaUern
Languages
for
Sustainability
and
Social
Change
as
prac;ce
Collect
genera:ve
systems
and
Connect
praxis
Empower
collabora:ons,
weak
Enable
and
Share
other
than
local
The
most
widespread
and
best-‐established
use
of
paIern
languages
is
in
computer
soTware
design,
which
can
serve
as
an
example
of
what
may
be
achieved
in
other
areas,
such
as
community
design.
PaIern
languages
are
common
in
fields
such
as
design
of
human-‐computer
interfaces,
and
technology-‐enhanced
learning,
a
highly
interdisciplinary
field
in
which
they
facilitate
communica:on
of
expert
knowledge
across
specialised
disciplines.
SoTware
paIern
language
collec:ons
have
become
mainstream
in
soTware
development
in
response
to
the
domain's
complexity
and
communica:on
issues.
Since
1995,
more
than
100
books
and
60
conferences
on
all
con:nents
have
yielded
3000+
soTware
paIerns.
However,
opera:ng
within
a
specialist
field
limits
the
use
of
paIern
languages
to
communica:on
among
experts,
and
does
not
take
advantage
of
their
poten:al
to
connect
diverse
user
communi:es
working
in
different
domains.
Some
applica:ons
stress
their
poten:al
as
tools
to
advance
democracy,
inclusion,
and
social
jus:ce,
notably
the
Public
Sphere
Project’s
work
on
paIern
languages
for
use
of
ICTs
as
emancipatory
tools.
In
terms
of
empowering
and
enabling,
most
social
change
paIern
languages
have
been
published
in
sta:c
print
media
that
do
not
allow
them
to
live
as
dynamic
en::es
undergoing
constant
revision
on
the
basis
of
experience.
Some
were
based
on
several
itera:ons
of
input
from
developer
and
user
communi:es
–
the
Public
Sphere
project's
paIern
language
for
emancipatory
use
of
ICTs,
for
example,
was
based
on
extensive
collabora:ve
processes
with
input
from
hundreds
of
individuals
worldwide
over
several
years.
Other
projects
using
online
formats
solicit
or
facilitate
con:nued
user
input.
The
Community
Pathways
website
invites
contribu:ons
of
new
paIerns.
The
Groupworks
PaIern
Language
group
seeks
to
cul:vate
ongoing
user
and
design
communi:es,
physical
and
virtual,
through
mee:ngs,
workshops
and
use
of
social
media,
all
feeding
back
into
design.
Pauwels,
S.
L.,
Hübscher,
C.,
Bargas-‐Avila,
J.
A.,
&
Opwis,
K.
(2010).
Building
an
interac:on
design
paIern
language:
A
case
study.
Computers
in
Human
Behavior,
26(3),
452-‐463.
Winters,
N.
&
Y.
Mor,
2008.
IDR:
A
par:cipatory
methodology
for
interdisciplinary
design
in
technology
enhanced
learning.
Computers
and
Educa:on
50:
579-‐600.
Lea,
D.
(1994).
Christopher
Alexander:
An
introduc:on
for
object-‐oriented
designers.
ACM
SIGSOFT
SoXware
Engineering
Notes
19(1):
39-‐46.
Schuler,
D.,
2008.
Libera:ng
voices:
A
paIern
language
for
communica:on
revolu:on.
MIT
Press.
Seamon,
D.
(2007,
May).
Christopher
Alexander
and
a
Phenomenology
of
Wholeness.
In
Annual
MeeDng
of
the
Environmental
Design
Research
AssociaDon
(EDRA),
Sacramento,
CA.
Alexander,
C.,
2001-‐2005.
The
Nature
of
Order.
Berkeley:
Center
for
Environmental
Structure.
Leitner,
H.,
2015.
PaIern
Theory.
Introduc:ons
and
Perspec:ves
on
the
Tracks
of
Christopher
Alexander.
HLS
SoTware.
Schuler,
D.,
2008.
LiberaDng
Voices:
a
pa]ern
language
for
communicaDon
revoluDon.
London:
MIT
Press
(and
hIp://publicsphereproject.org/).
hIp://groupworksdeck.org/.
[Accessed
April
5th
2015].
31. PaIern
Language
(analog)
web
Collect
Inventory
Connect
Poten;al
Empower
Agency
Enable
Value
Share
Sense
of
Ownership
Instances
Systems
Networks
Co-‐nurture
Provide
Co-‐produce
web
32. PLAST’s
innova;on
poten;al
Collect
genera:ve
systems,
Connect
praxis
Empower
ecosystems,
Enable
co-‐nurturing,
Share
a
system
PLAST
innovates
by
providing
tools
and
methodologies
to
seek,
inves:gate
and
discuss
systemic
coherence
from
a
basis
of
diversity
in
perspec:ve
and
ac:on,
without
trying
to
achieve
unifica:on
(i.e.,
unity
in
values,
vision
and
approach).
It
seeks
to
empower
diversity
and
leverage
agency
wherever
it
may
be
found,
fostering
the
emergence
of
an
ecology
for
transforma:ve
ac:on
comprising
living
communi:es
of
place,
communi:es
of
prac:ce,
and
communi:es
of
knowledge
within
a
global
ac:on
space
who
maintain
a
shared
knowledge
commons
because
this
commons
resource
contributes
to
their
crea:on
of
value.
PLAST
is
conceived
as
an
‘ac:on’
system
with
two
key
elements.
A
seman:c
structure
which
provides
a
bridge
across
languages
and
subcultures,
channeling
drives
for
change
and
leveraging
capaci:es
and
poten:als
for
ac:on
through
exchange
of
tacit
knowledge.
A
hermeneu:c
engine
which
provides
orienta:on
across
this
idea
and
ac:on
space,
fostering
learning
and
mutual
discovery
and
enabling
effec:ve
polycentric
solu:ons
that
collec:vely
apprehend
the
system
as
a
whole.
33. PLAST’s
innova;on
poten;al
Collect
genera:ve
systems,
Connect
praxis
Empower
ecosystems,
Enable
co-‐nurturing,
Share
a
system
PLAST’s
genera:ve
model
acts
upon
all
five
levers
in
a
mutually
reinforcing
way
to
mul:ply
effects
at
mul:ple
levels.
The
effec:veness
of
PLAST
relies
on
the
combina:on
of
all
of
them
to
generate
systemic
transforma:on:
Collect
It
is
expected
on
the
basis
of
early
feedback
from
PaIern
Language
and
social
change
prac::oners
that
PLAST
will
provide
a
compelling
aIractor
to
par:cipants
to
load
their
exis:ng
paIern
languages
and
best
prac:ces
into
the
system
and
to
create
new
paIerns
and
paIern
languages
using
the
system,
suppor:ng
the
collec:on
of
whole
systems
of
sustainable
solu:ons
and
possibili:es
to
act
upon.
The
immediate
opening
of
pathways
to
further
knowledge
will
draw
par:cipant
into
the
system
to
explore
related
knowledge.
The
more
know-‐how
par:cipants
provide
to
the
system
the
more
know-‐how
they
will
find
opens
up
to
them
to
discover.
For
this
reason
we
expect
the
system
will
collect
a
great
deal
of
knowledge
from
par:cipants
in
diverse
domains.
Connect
PLAST
will
be
designed
for
op:mal
‘self
connec:on’
of
knowledge
and
prac:ce
using
mul:-‐dimensional
seman:c
interconnec:on
of
paIerns.
PLAST
will
connect
the
prac:ce
of
diverse
communi:es
and
areas
of
sustainability
driving
social
innova:on
by
opening
up
explora:on
pathways
between
them.
By
accelera:ng
connec:vity,
PLAST
creates
communica:on
bridges
between
par:cipants
in
adjacent
domains
which
are
likely
to
foster
produc:ve
cross-‐domain
encounters
of
kinds
known
to
spark
innova:on.
By
opening
up
channels
between
prac:ces,
PLAST’s
design
promotes
the
circula:on
of
knowledge
and
energy
towards
ac:on.
34. PLAST’s
innova;on
poten;al
Collect
genera:ve
systems,
Connect
praxis
Empower
ecosystems,
Enable
co-‐nurturing,
Share
a
system
Empower
PLAST
will
provide
change
agents
with
tools
to
ar:culate
and
share
knowledge,
explore
new
territories
of
prac:ces,
grow
capacity
to
connect
and
learn,
and
relevant
connec:ons,
and
deepen
their
understanding
of
the
challenges
they
confront.
Bringing
diverse
capabili:es
into
contact
generates
more
opportuni:es
to
act,
which
in
turn
increases
capability
in
a
feedback
loop.
Learning
and
ac:on
research
are
embedded
in
the
design
to
expand
awareness
and
capacity
for
ac:on
and
therefore
agency
deeply
within
and
across
domains.
By
mobilizing
and
empowering
the
diversity
of
its
users
PLAST
creates
opportuni:es
for
poly-‐centric
and
mul:-‐
level
social
impact
throughout
the
ecosystem.
Enable
PLAST
is
structured
as
a
co-‐created
knowledge
commons
that
enables
the
pursuit
of
a
change
driven
prac:ce
upon
which
par:cipants
can
find
resources
to
beIer
achieve
their
own
vision/mission
and
generate
their
own
livelihood.
The
high
leverage,
in
terms
of
return
on
effort,
ensures
that
par:cipants
will
keep
the
knowledge
they
depend
on
alive
and
circula:ng,
and
the
tools
they
rely
on
at
the
state-‐of-‐the-‐art
level,
co-‐nurturing
the
system
that
enables
them.
Share
As
a
peer
produced
commons,
used
and
co-‐nurtured
by
a
diversity
of
communi:es,
sense
of
ownership
is
not
just
about
a
co-‐
produced
output
or
a
shared
process,
it
is
over
a
whole
enabling
system.
The
ability
to
hold
and
maintain
a
local
repository
and
integrate
this
repository
into
a
commons
repository
ensures
con:nuity
of
ownership
even
through
local
distribu:on
of
the
data.
35. PLAST
web
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