The document discusses the role of collaboration in achieving sustainability, highlighting the need for collective intelligence and strategic frameworks to overcome barriers such as lack of internet access and ineffective communication. It outlines the principles of sustainable development, emphasizing the importance of transparency, cooperation, and shared vision in collaborative efforts. Recommendations for successful collaboration in sustainability initiatives are provided, alongside the necessity for further research to navigate the evolving challenges in this field.

1. Collaboration for Sustainability in a Networked Worldwww.wordle.net-Rebecca PetzelBlekinge Institute of Technology

2. OutlineOverviewBackgroundSustainability & COINsResearchResultsSustainability AssessmentBarriers to UsePractitioner RecommendationsConclusions

3. BackgroundThe Sustainability Challenge1987 U.N. Brundtland Report1988 the Sustainability Principles2002: "sustainable development simply calls for more collaboration since the changes needed exceed the capacity of individual actors."

4. BackgroundIn What ways can COINs be part of a movement towards a sustainable society?Harnessing Collective IntelligenceThe Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development

5. ResearchResearch & MethodologyUsed creative tension of backcastingSurveys (32 people)Interviews (18 people)Participant ObservationFeedback & Dialogue

6. ResResults: assessmentSustainability AssessmentBridging Ingenuity GapSocially sustainable structuresSelf-organization, Diversity, InterdependenceLow-impact TechnologyResource inefficienciesAccess ConcernsLack of systems perspective

7. Results: barriers76.5 % of people globally lack Internet Access http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2053/2229752965_ae28533a0a_o.jpg

8. Results: barriersDigital Immigrants perceive technology a bit differently than digital nativeshttp://seacreatures.deviantart.com/art/Old-People-14159737

9. Results: barriersFrom hierarchy to wirearchy is a tough transitionhttp://www.jarche.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/wirearchy.jpg

10. Results: barriershttp://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/sword/plagiarism.jpgNot everyone thinks of intellectual property the same way

11. Results: barriershttp://nirel.deviantart.com/art/Scream-17026336Sometimes technology is frustrating

12. Results: barriersWithout the presence of face to face collaboration- dysfuntional argumentation can create roadblocks

13. Results: barriershttp://digitalminds.deviantart.com/art/Pain-in-the-ass-101307904Web collaborations can suffer from poor signal to noise ratios

14. Results: barriersThe web presents new communication challenges: people say things on-line they wouldn’t say face to facehttp://auleaf.deviantart.com/art/Screw-You-127132471

15. Results: barriersOver-controlling leadership can stifle a collaborationhttp://altair4444.deviantart.com/art/Puppet-Not-15196569

16. Results: barriersCollaborations fail through lack of shared vision, trust or transparent communication: the pillars of successful COINshttp://marthema.deviantart.com/art/Together-35327305

17. Results: barriers“The biggest challenge to harnessing the collective intelligence of the world to help solve some of the very serious problems we have around sustainability….has to do with people knowing not only how to use the software, but ideas around critical thinking and collaboration.”– Howard Rheingold

18. Results: recommendationsHow to collaborate?When to collaborate Perfect Invitation Collaborator experience designLead by example Strategic considerations for COINs

19. ConclusionsSustainability & COINsCOINs support social sustainabilityCOINs CAN support environmental sustainabilityThe FSSD & COINsInnovation!

20. ConclusionsValidity & Further ResearchTime ConcernsEmerging factors in rapidly developing fieldDetailed resource assessment of distributed workingCollaboration Ninjas

21. Conclusions“the danger is not that we ask too much of the Internet, but too little…it could be a new platform for how we could organize ourselves, to find knowledge together, to work out what is true and to decide together what we should do about it”–Tim Berners-Lee

22. AppendixFramework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD)Understand the system- the natural laws that define the biosphere and societies relationships with the earth. Interdependence, diversity, self-organization, laws of thermodynamicsSystemSuccess on a principled level. The minimum requirements necessary for success. The sustainability principles are a minimumSuccessStrategic guidelines to guide decision making processes. Importantly backcasting as a strategic guideline and guidelines for socially sustainable processes of relating: transparency, cooperation, openness, inclusiveness, involvementStrategicActionsPrioritized steps put into action, following strategic guidelines for success in the systemAppropriate tools including management techniques and monitoring processes to guide implementation of strategic toolsTools

23. AppendixThe Sustainability PrinciplesTo become a sustainable society we must...eliminate our contribution to the progressive buildup of substances extracted from the Earth's crust (for example, heavy metals and fossil fuels)2. eliminate our contribution to the progressive buildup of chemicals and compounds produced by society (for example, dioxins, PCBs, and DDT )3. eliminate our contribution to the progressive physical degradation and destruction of nature and natural processes (for example, over harvesting forests and paving over critical wildlife habitat); and4. eliminate our contribution to conditions that undermine people’s capacity to meet their basic human needs (for example, unsafe working conditions and not enough pay to live on). v

24. AppendixResearch Questions