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ChangeCamp: Next Mark Kuznicki
http://remarkk.com
A Point of Departure @remarkk
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A World in Crisis...
http://flickr.com/photos/aaronescobar/2633772161/
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How to make sense of it…
Complexity...
How to make meaning…
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Who’s Your Tribe?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sterlingely/64155263/
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The Change We Seek
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Talking About Values - Eaves
Dear conservatives on the Left and Right – and
those beholden to them.
We would like to break up with you.
- Eaves.ca - “A Neo-Progressive Manifesto”
http://eaves.ca/2009/07/13/a-neo-progressive-manifesto-generation-m-remix-v-2/
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Do These Resonate With Us?
There's a tectonic shift rocking the social, political, and economic landscape
We want a sustainable, humanized life.
We want renewable, transparent, responsive, and people-oriented organizations.
We want a society built around sustainable communities.
We want open, engaged and deep democracy — everywhere.
We want open institutions, fit for survival, designed to grow and share wealth, that
seek to create markets, not own them.
We believe in emergent and bottom-up.
We want citizens to be hackers, creators and... citizens.
We want an eco-system that rewards talent, ideas, productivity and collaboration
– we want a meritocracy.
http://eaves.ca/2009/07/13/a-neo-progressive-manifesto-generation-m-remix-v-2/
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ChangeCamp is...
A post-partisan community of citizens
A third space commons outside institutions
A platform for collaboration
A set of emerging ideas
A set of methods and tools
A conversation
Both local and national/global
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ChangeCamp is not...
An ideology
A political party or interest group
An advocacy organization
A replacement for representative democracy
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City Repair Project, Portland
Text
Restoring the village square
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The Web didn’t
invent community.
The question is how
do we restore
community.
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“The essential challenge is to
transform the isolation and
self-interest within our
communities into
connectedness and caring
for the whole.” - Peter Block
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Principles - Peter Block
The work is to build social fabric, for its own sake and to enable
accountability among citizens.
Strong associational life is central
Citizens convening other citizens create an alternative future
The small group is the unit of transformation
All transformation is linguistic, community is a conversation
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Building social fabric
Free association
Citizens convening other citizens
Small group as the unit of transformation
Community is a conversation
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“We are living in the middle of
the largest increase in
expressive capability in the
history of the human race.” -
Clay Shirky
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From Industrial Society to a Networked Society
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The Question
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The Methods
Open Space + Social Media + Open Innovation
Open Space - and other large group methods - the social web of
face-to-face, same-time/same place
Social Media - community-generated content creation, capture and
dissemination
Open Innovation - open data, open source, open access,
participation and content is free, open, creative commons licensed
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The Communities
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The Long-Tail of Public Policy
Credit: David Eaves, http://eaves.ca/
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The Tools
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Future Possibilities?
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Purpose
ChangeCamp spreads the emerging ideas,
tools and methods of a networked society
and builds social capital to accelerate
community transformation.
ChangeCamp is both a platform and a
community.
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Big Bold Actionable Goal
September 2010: 100 ChangeCamps
in communities across Canada
Event Co-creators 10,000
Online Participation 90,000
Viewers 900,000
1,000.000 people aware and involved in local change-making
1/30 of the population of Canada
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How do we apply open
space + social media + open
innovation to accelerate
community transformation at
scale?
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How do we enable hundreds
of community organizers?
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How do we facilitate, capture
and share the content of their
conversations?
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How do we make sense of
hundreds of overlapping
conversations? How do we
gather actionable insight?
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How do we increase the
possibility for individuals and
communities to take action?
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Activities to Achieve this Goal
Identify and provide tools, support and training for local organizers
Develop and publish design patterns for events, both large-scale
and small
Design and develop an integrated online organization and
collaboration platform at ChangeCamp.ca
Build partnerships with organizations with shared interests: citizen
engagement, public sector renewal and social innovation
Social media analytics tools to translate unstructured content into
useful information and to measure community engagement and
action
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Join the Conversation
http://ChangeCamp.ca
http://twitter.com/ChangeCamp
http://groups.google.com/group/changecamp
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Mark Kuznicki
http://remarkk.com
Twitter: remarkk
mark@remarkk.com
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