Gil ubuntu presentation 11.05.10

A discussion document
introducing the British
Council’s planned Global
Innovation Lab to the
Ubuntu Community

Andrew Missingham admv.missingham@virgin.net
Presentation to Ubuntu Developers’ Summit 11.05.10

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

About this presentation

My name is Andrew Missingham. I am an independent
creative consultant, working with the British Council to
plan a component of their Global Innovation Lab.

This document is a collection of my personal proposals
to you, the Ubuntu community, regarding how it might
interact with the British Council’s planned Global
Innovation Lab.



What is the British Council?

The British Council is the UK’s agency for cultural
relations.

It has ofﬁces in over 100 countries. It exists to create
opportunities to learn, share and connect worldwide.



What is the Global Innovation Lab
The Global Innovation Lab is a planned British Council
project to:

Focus on addressing global challenges (based
upon the Millennium Project’s challenges)

•Sustainable Living
•Lifelong Health and wellbeing
•Global security in a changing world
•The Digital World



The Global Innovation Lab is a planned British Council
project to:

Work across disciplines and sectors: Focussing
on researchers and entrepreneurs in the early stages of
their careers - academic and non-academic

Combine global and regional approaches




This will happen as physical meetings, conferences
and an online space:

The Global Forum



The Global Forum

1) A means of connecting people remotely

2) A showcase for the work of the network

3) To amplify physical events



Tools
The site will incorporate:

1. Networking. An embedded online social network.



Tools


2. Collaboration. This will incorporate an ofﬁce suite of programmes, a
whiteboard, a diary/meeting setting function and a forum



Tools



3.      An information store. This is both as a public face of what the network is
creating (e.g.YouTube uploads, photos, links to other BC activity etc.) and also as a
learning resource which is of use to the network.



Tools


whiteboard, a diary/meeting setting function and a forum and a survey function


4.      A resource for participants. This includes either a place for CVs, or links to
where participants have their CVs (e.g. LinkedIn), databases of funding bodies, wiki
deﬁnitions and discussions



Tools




4.      A resource for participants. This includes either a place for CVs, or links to
where participants have their CVs (e.g. LinkedIn), databases of funding bodies, wiki
deﬁnitions and discussions

5.      Training materials. These will to facilitate use of the Global Forum, especially
links to existing BC resources (e.g. English language teaching) and introductions to the
Global Forum’s preferred platforms.


Encouraging use (and reuse)



We need to start from where people are already
comfortable online



comfortable online

Where do they upload, network and collaborate.
Give them “badges” that can identify what team they
already support.



comfortable online

already support.

We need to welcome people using tools that they
are familiar with



comfortable online

already support.

are familiar with

We need to incorporate training into the face to face
events



comfortable online

already support.

are familiar with

We need to incorporate training into the face to face
events

We need to roll out online tools as and when they
are appropriate Andrew Missingham admv.missingham@virgin.net


Upload Presence



Upload Presence Social Networks



Upload Presence Social Networks Collaborative
Writing



Personalisable



Personalisable

The landing page will be public-facing curated news
and features. Past this the site will feel like a
iGoogle, Netvibes or PageFlakes personal web
portal.

It should be personisable with widgets within a range
of choices

There will need to be “badge” space/links for all of
the elements above, plus a preferred network in
each of the 5 site tools.


Timed
Some platform tools will be needed at different
times in the project process.

Before face-to-face meetings

•Moderated plenary forum to consider/suggest discussion topics
•Proﬁle page to allow online registration and addition to online
network

•Alerts to online conventions and places of discussion in advance of
meeting (e.g. named hashtag for Twitter, Livestream channel)

•Archive of background reading etc.



Timed

During face-to-face events

•Facilitating participation of remote participants
•Collaborative comment collection for archive (Gobby)
•Single user comments (Twitter)
•live video streaming (Livestream)



Timed

After face-to-face events

•To catalyse participation in the BC network (i.e. not to retreat to
Facebook, or create atomised social networks)

•To create legacy and encourage collaboration on business actioned
at the conference/meeting.

•A place to share knowledge, such as presentation uploads
(Slideshare), conference papers etc and even aggregation (Tumblr/
Posterous)



Measuring Success

To measure the success of the network, we must
capture the value that the Global Forum creates

It will need to work out “how much is a link, a tweet
or a Facebook mention worth?” aside from the raw
numbers of “page views” or “unique users”.



Building on British Council Experience



Outstanding Challenges

We will need a “keychain” system which can remember all
passwords to various networks, but remain secure




The online social network will need to build in two layers:
1. Forum membership (i.e. the global network) and
2. Project/workstream membership

These two layers will need to be able to overlap so
members can migrate from one to another.




The British Council will itself need to be present on the
network, having conversations itself, as well as signposting
and moderating the network’s conversations (e.g. BC
Science blog? Counterpoint?)




The investment model for the Global Forum will need to
facilitate agile changes of direction in response to actual
use of the forum. (i.e. redeploy resources or redesign).



Build Options

The two alternative build methods currently being
considering are:

1. British Council hiring a coder or coding company to put
this together with a given brief

(all offers gratefully received!)



Build Options

The two alternative build methods currently being
considering are:

2. Partnership with Ubuntu to:

a) work with the Ubuntu community to create a
"Collabuntu" distro as a “Wubi” style .exe

OR

b) work with the Ubuntu community to create a cloud-
based "Collabuntu" cloud system Andrew Missingham admv.missingham@virgin.net


The Global Forum
Global Innovation Lab online



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