The document discusses creating a collaborative system for organizing course material and producing a shared knowledge base. It will balance efficiency and resilience by encouraging diversity and interconnectivity among students and faculty. The system will start small but be scalable, utilizing social networks, video, blogs, and other collaborative tools to engage users and further develop concepts in a flexible platform.

1. Collaborative System
Objective: organize course material and produce
a shared knowledge base.
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By Tiago Miranda

2. Collaborative System
1. Balance in Natural Network
2. “Less Is More”
3. Other Collaborative Successful Network
4. Our Collaborative Network System

3. 1. Balance in Natural Network

4. Balance in Sustainable Natural Networks
Resilience
Efficiency
Two key variables
Efficiency: capacity of the system to process.
Resilience: capacity to survive, to adapt, to evolve.

5. Example of
(un)Balance in our Monetary System
Efficiency
Resilience
We only know This makes our system
how to calculate monoculture because
this parameter. of its low diversity.

6. Balance in Sustainable Natural Networks
Resilience
Efficiency
Efficiency and Resilience are a function of 2 structural variables.
Diversity: how many different animals are around.
Interconnectivity: who can eat what.

7. Balance in Sustainable Natural Networks
Low diversity
Dry forest
Low interconnectivity
Panda only eats bamboo

8. Balance in Sustainable Natural Networks
High interconnectivity
Squirrel eats anything
High diversity
Rain forest

9. Balance in Sustainable Natural Networks
Diversity and Interconnectivity are independent from what is being processed in network.
ANY COMPLEX NETWORK CAN BE MEASURED IN THE SAME WAY
biomass in an ecosystem
electrons in an electrical circuit
information in immune system
money in an economy

10. 2. “Less is more”

11. “Less is more”
“Simpler, sleeker devices - think apps - are less about searching and more about getting”
“The screen comes to them, they don’t have to go to the screen”
“Specialty software designed for single purpose, unlike general purpose browser”
Chris Anderson

12. “Less is more”
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not every man’s greed” GETTING MORE
Mahatma Gandhi FROM LESS
“I would prize every invention of Science made for the benefit for all” FOR MORE
Ultra low-cost
Extreme affordability Gandhian Engineering
Inclusive innovation
Disruptive innovation

13. “Less is more”
Jacque Fresco in the society he designed called Sociocyborneering, talks about a central
computer that stores all types of human knowledge. The computer imports all kinds of data
and is able to answer any type of question by making connections between gaps of information.

14. “Less is more”
Just like Google and Wikipedia with Wolfram Alpha has the same direct interface but is a
“computational knowledge engine”.
This website puts in practice what Jacques Fresco was talking about in 1974 .

15. 3. Other Collaborative Successful Network

16. Other Collaborative Networks
The Open Architecture Network is a clearinghouse for designs, but it's also a living network, where
communities can connect with designers and donors, and where builders can manage a project
from start to finish, with timelines, commenting tools and forums.

17. Other Collaborative Networks
The Zeitgeist movement is mainly a information Network. Like a blog, videos, essays,
where the information is continuously updated.

18. Other Collaborative Networks
Ask Nature is a network that invites scientists, business entrepreneurs, engineers and designers to get together
and brainstorm about ways of making new ideas based on Nature real.

19. 4. Our Collaborative Network System

20. Our Collaborative System
- Create a collaboration network for students and faculty of this master.
- Getting creatives informed and involved by helping in developing concepts.
- Scalable from 0 to 1000s - mass collaboration platform
- Reach as far out as possible.
- Social Business is still a very young concept, very few people know about it. Lots of theory.
Social Video
Network Blog
Diversity
Interconnectivity
Resilience Efficiency
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21. Our Collaborative System
Needs to be a flexible platform
Social With growing potential
Full-blown wiki
Network Versatile concerning applications
Interactive with and between users
Resilience
“Less is more”
Video Going towards video net consumption Vimeo
Blog Direct Tumblr
Informing and fetching more users
Efficiency
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Internal work with students and professors Moodle
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