"We will share our experience in managing and promoting the use of a local web platform for civic purposes, Comunità, included within the Bologna city web site, named Iperbole, which has been conceived and announced as a digital commons."
Korea-Australia-New Zealand Broadband Summit 2011: Digital FuturesCollabforge
The KANZ Broadband Summit provides a unique opportunity for industry, research and policy representatives from Australia, Korea and New Zealand to share insights into trends and challenges in our increasing digital future.
Dr Mark Elliott is the founder of Collabforge, an innovative consultancy responsible for a number of cutting-edge digital government initiatives within Australia and abroad. These include the City of Melbourne's Future Melbourne, a multi award winning world-first ‘City plan that anyone can edit’, as well as wePlan Parks Victoria, which leverages social media for the first time to ‘Help guide the future of Victoria’s parks’, and the Southern California Bicycle & Pedestrian Planning Wiki, comprising a new approach to public involvement in transportation planning.
The presentation touches on what social media is and its potential uses in increasing communication, collaboration and public participation in local government agencies.
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This is an incomplete presentation - there are more examples that we know about, but just haven't put in yet. Feel free to drop some in the comments though.
Social Media for public administrations: opportunities and challengesAlessandro Lovari
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Korea-Australia-New Zealand Broadband Summit 2011: Digital FuturesCollabforge
The KANZ Broadband Summit provides a unique opportunity for industry, research and policy representatives from Australia, Korea and New Zealand to share insights into trends and challenges in our increasing digital future.
Dr Mark Elliott is the founder of Collabforge, an innovative consultancy responsible for a number of cutting-edge digital government initiatives within Australia and abroad. These include the City of Melbourne's Future Melbourne, a multi award winning world-first ‘City plan that anyone can edit’, as well as wePlan Parks Victoria, which leverages social media for the first time to ‘Help guide the future of Victoria’s parks’, and the Southern California Bicycle & Pedestrian Planning Wiki, comprising a new approach to public involvement in transportation planning.
The presentation touches on what social media is and its potential uses in increasing communication, collaboration and public participation in local government agencies.
Social media in Local Government a few examples - and ways aheadIngrid Koehler
This is an incomplete presentation - there are more examples that we know about, but just haven't put in yet. Feel free to drop some in the comments though.
Social Media for public administrations: opportunities and challengesAlessandro Lovari
My presentation at the European Project eCitizens II, event organized by Municipality of Bologna, Italy. My speech was about the role of social media for public communication, focus on the potentialities of these platforms for administrations. Moreover I also discuss some empirical outputs coming from some studies I did with some colleagues. In the last part I discussed the managerial implications and guidelines
Beyond broadcast and consume: modification of provider-user information behav...Hazel Hall
Hazel Hall's invited keynote paper presented at ISSOME 2011: Information Science and Social Media International Conference, Turku, Finland, 24-26 August 2011.
Darren Sharp's (senior consultant Collabforge) presentation to the Innovative Ideas Forum 2009 on social networking for cultural institutions. Hosted by the National Library of Australia in Canberra on 27th March 2009.
Forum website: http://tinyurl.com/dm4r2w
Social Networking Sites and Equal Opportunity: The Impact of AccessibilityUltan O'Broin
Paper from 22nd Bled eConference
on eEnablement Facilitating an Open, Effective and Representative eSociety
June 14 - 17, 2009; Bled, Slovenia
Note that accessibility enablement in sites mentioned has been improved greatly since 2009, but you might like to refer to the references and use the paper's methodology.
CollaborAid will be an online platform where aid providers can connect, collaborate, and share information with each other and the communities they serve. Learn more about our project at www.CollaborAid.org
Blockchain-based Crowdfunding: what impact on artistic production and art con...eraser Juan José Calderón
Blockchain-based Crowdfunding:
what impact on artistic production and art consumption?
Primavera De Filippi. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law
How much should you care for your voiceArk Johnson
How Much Should You Care for Your Voice. Its an E book that informs you as a singer on what can affect your singing voice and what can actually enhance it.
Experiencia del GAD municipal Milagro en la competencia de Tránsito, Transporte Terrestre y Seguridad Vial para la zona de planificación 3. Mesas Técnicas por la Descentralización.
Beyond broadcast and consume: modification of provider-user information behav...Hazel Hall
Hazel Hall's invited keynote paper presented at ISSOME 2011: Information Science and Social Media International Conference, Turku, Finland, 24-26 August 2011.
Darren Sharp's (senior consultant Collabforge) presentation to the Innovative Ideas Forum 2009 on social networking for cultural institutions. Hosted by the National Library of Australia in Canberra on 27th March 2009.
Forum website: http://tinyurl.com/dm4r2w
Social Networking Sites and Equal Opportunity: The Impact of AccessibilityUltan O'Broin
Paper from 22nd Bled eConference
on eEnablement Facilitating an Open, Effective and Representative eSociety
June 14 - 17, 2009; Bled, Slovenia
Note that accessibility enablement in sites mentioned has been improved greatly since 2009, but you might like to refer to the references and use the paper's methodology.
CollaborAid will be an online platform where aid providers can connect, collaborate, and share information with each other and the communities they serve. Learn more about our project at www.CollaborAid.org
Blockchain-based Crowdfunding: what impact on artistic production and art con...eraser Juan José Calderón
Blockchain-based Crowdfunding:
what impact on artistic production and art consumption?
Primavera De Filippi. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law
How much should you care for your voiceArk Johnson
How Much Should You Care for Your Voice. Its an E book that informs you as a singer on what can affect your singing voice and what can actually enhance it.
Experiencia del GAD municipal Milagro en la competencia de Tránsito, Transporte Terrestre y Seguridad Vial para la zona de planificación 3. Mesas Técnicas por la Descentralización.
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The FLUXUS G601 CA Energy is the ideal tool for carrying out complete energy efficiency tasks in the industry as well as within facility management (e.g. according to DIN ISO 50001 standards) by allowing the measurement of compressed air flow rates as well as the monitoring of thermal energy quantities and the flow rate determination of any kind of liquid or gaseous media with just one device.
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Software-based systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Most of the industrial control networks (CAN, PROFI, Control Area, Ethernet and RS485) connect to the internet or other computer networks which are not fully protected from hackers and viruses. Present day industrial DCS/PLC control systems come with redun- dancy systems to eliminate shutdowns in case of DCS/PLC hardware failures. However, this does not protect your DCS/PLC system from any type of cyber attack. Without proper protection, the safety and/or operation of your plant or business are put at great risk.
Objetivos y metodología que se utilizaron en las Mesas Técnicas Territoriales de la Descentralización para las municipalidades de las provincias de Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, Chimborazo y Pastaza en la ciudad de Ambato.
Experiencia del GAD municipal de Ambato en la competencia de Prevención, Protección, Socorro y Extinción de Incendios para la zona de planificación 3. Mesas Técnicas por la Descentralización.
Le remanufacturing de produits en fin d’usage / fin de cycle est une activité industrielle peu connue ou reconnue en France et en Europe.* Cette activité peut parfois être confondue avec d’autres boucles de l’Economie Circulaire comme le recyclage ou la maintenance.
Le remanufacturing est pourtant une activité spécialisée, source de compétitivité. Elle combine bénéfice économique, gain de matière et d’énergie et permet le maintien d’emplois qualifiés sur un territoire.
Nano-elements Introduction in GFRP construction materials, Concrete.MECandPMV
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An appropriate vocabulary and language of the commons are essential
for the the health of the surviving commons. At present the
dominant paradigm is so pervasive, that the language of property
is used to describe and regulate the commons. In many cases, there is
no vocabulary to describe and therefore the language of property is
imported and deployed. Even those with legitimate constitutional backing
term restoration of commons as encroachment or, in the case of MST
Brazil, as ‘invasions’. These should instead be seen and named as land
restoration and liberation. It is only then that the legitimacy of restoring
the commons for commoners is affirmed with the empowering knowledge
of legitimacy. This is the required ‘vocabulary of commoning’, needed
for the active process of returning the resources to the commons and
the commons to the community of commoners.
The present crisis offers an opportunity for a radical shift, if we can
move beyond the paralysis of fear and a mindset firmly stuck in an economy of scarcity and stratification—resulting in the hoarding of
everything from food to knowledge, of rats eating grain in government
godowns when over half the population goes hungry and denial is based
on caste, gender, language or religion. They are incongruous in the
present era. These are consequences of fear, privatisation and the
fencing of the commons—whether by executive fiat, parliamentary
expropriation, ‘development’ imperatives or by the very character of
the Indian state which, as an institution of property, only exists to
further property interests. These are no longer necessary in an era
of abundant resources, where a new normal is eminently possible—
of cooperation of collectives engendered by the commons approach
of ‘the earth has enough for everyone’s needs’. The solution lies not
within the present system of privatisation nor in tinkering and inconsequential
‘reforms’, but in a new paradigm, a language of the commons.
Rebranding Athens: The ABC and Agora Project.SmartCitiesTeam
The ABC and Agora Project is SmartCitiesTeam's value proposition for Athens Rebranding. Get on board!
Athens CoCreation Branding Project
Panteion University Of Social And Political Sciences
Department of Communication, Media and Culture
MA in Cultural Management
Course: Cultural Marketing and Communication
Course Instructor: Betty Tsakarestou, Assistant Professor and Head of Advertising and Public Relations Lab
Social media is changing the
conversation. Twitter, Facebook,
LinkedIn, foursquare – we no longer
just communicate; we interact. In
the process, how can the wealth
of information being generated
by social media help us better
understand how our cities function
and create smarter cities in the process?
Social media is changing the
conversation. Twitter, Facebook,
LinkedIn, foursquare – we no longer
just communicate; we interact. In
the process, how can the wealth
of information being generated
by social media help us better
understand how our cities function
and create smarter cities in the process?
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In the collaborative economy and ICT era there is a new way to do public policy starting from existing prototypes in order to develop city as common. Through the recently implemented local regulation about collaborative governance regarding urban commons, I can share my insights about the process and the next challenges and a question: Can Bologna be a model? Is it a scalable and replicable approach?
OuiShare - Collaborative Territories Toolkit Alpha Release - Open For CommentsOuiShare
About Sharitories
Sharitories is a global project with a very practical scope: to create a Collaborative Territories Toolkit for local policy-makers around the world who wish to implement collaborative or sharing initiatives in their local areas and help them thrive.
Sharitories was born in June 2014 through OuiShare, a global community and think and do-tank with the mission to build and nurture a collaborative society by connecting people, organizations and ideas around fairness, openness and trust.
The Collaborative Territories Toolkit
The toolkit will be based on contributions and best practices from across the globe, collected from thought leaders and practitioners who work to speed up the transition towards a collaborative society.
With this set of tools, both existing and created ad hoc, OuiShare and FORUM PA want to offer local governments an open platform for the understanding of the potential of collaborative policies and practices in society and the economy.
Getting Involved
The Collaborative Territories Toolkit “Sharitories” project is looking for adopters, sponsors and fellow collaborators that want to help shaping the collaborative future of territories worldwide.
You can contribute to the project in many ways: by allocating financial resources on the kit development as a sponsor, by testing the approach in your context as a local administrator or changemaker, by inviting the Sharitories team to hold a workshop to help you solve your local challenge as a public entity or just by joining the growing OuiShare team.
If you or your organization want to get involved in the project please get in touch with:
Simone Cicero simone@ouishare.net (for Italian and English inquiries)
Albert Cañigueral albert@ouishare.net (for Spanish inquiries)
Samuel Romeau samuel@ouishare.net (for French inquiries)
Thomas Doennebrink thomas@ouishare.net (fro German inquiries)
Gov4All :An open data and open services repository for supporting citizen-dr...Yannis Charalabidis
Open data portals have been a primary source for publishing datasets from various sectors of administration, all over the world. However, making open data available does not necessarily lead to better utilisation from citizens and businesses. Our paper presents a new framework and a prototype system for supporting open application development by citizen communities, through gathering and making available open data and open web services sources from governmental actors, combined with an application development environment, training material and application examples.
This is a presentation of Gov4All platform, a web site for managing citizen-driven development in Greece.
This paper discusses hyperlocal social media and its value for local communities. Hyperlocal social media refers to applications and services specifically designed to facilitate communication, collaboration, and connections among residents at the neighborhood level. The paper provides an overview of the rise of hyperlocal social media, analyzing key features and functions through several leading examples of hyperlocal apps. It also addresses the challenges faced by hyperlocal platforms in achieving widespread adoption. Overall, the paper aims to illustrate how technological innovation empowers grassroots civic engagement and revitalizes the concept of the village square in the digital era.
Keywords: hyperlocal social media, local communities, hyperlocal apps, civic participation, technological innovation
Sanchayan Nath, Evolution in Nature of Collective Action around Water-Bodies ...LabGov
Indiana University Bloomington
This research has been funded by grants from the IU Office of Sustainability, the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence, the OstromWorkshop and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.
Lavinia Pastore, Enrico Parisio, and Luigi Corvo, Collaborative Spaces as Urb...LabGov
The phenomenon of collaborative spaces is spreading around the world. Co-working, fab-lab, contamination lab and other collaborative experiences are emerging in both urban and rural contexts.
Nicholas Anastasopoulos, Natalia Avlona, Ex Airports as Metropolitan CommonsLabGov
Challenges, Opportunities and Contradictions around Three Case Studies
Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD, Researcher National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Eva Streberová and Tatiana Kluvánková, Ecosystem Services to Govern Urban Com...LabGov
Streberová, E.
Kluvánková, T.
1SPECTRA, Centre of Excellence EU
2Institute of Forest Ecology at Slovak Academy of Sciences
3Institute of Management at Slovak University of Technology
Wout van der Toorn Vrijthoff and Vincent Nadin, The Common Historic Urban Cor...LabGov
Wout van der Toorn Vrijthoff
Vincent Nadin
University of Technology Delft
Faculty of Architecture
Emeritus associate professor
Real Estate Management
Background in:
Civil engineering
City Planning Housing
Urban Planning
Francesco Minora, Collective Action And Habitability In Residential ContextsLabGov
Produzione di abitabilità e condizioni di efficacia di interventi di Social Housing
Post doc 2010 incoming (call 1)
The “Trentino - PCOFUND-GA-2008-226070” programme
Lorenzo Vidal-Folch, Securing Social Conquests In and Beyond the State: The C...LabGov
Lorenzo Vidal-Folch
UNIVERSITAT autònoma de barcelona
Department of political science and public law
IASC Thematic conference on the urban commons,
6-7 november 2015
Sanchayan Nath, Collective Action in Urban Social Ecological SystemsLabGov
Sanchayan Nath Indiana University Bloomington
06-Nov-2015
The 1st IASC Urban Commons Conference, Bologna, Italy
This research has been funded by grants from the Ostrom Workshop and the School of Public and
Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.
Eleni Katrini, Creating the Everyday Commons: Sharing as a Means of Self-Orga...LabGov
creating the everyday commons
Eleni Katrini ∙ PhD Candidate ∙ Carnegie Mellon University ∙ School of Architecture
[The City as a Commons | Bologna Italy | 2015]
Francesco Minora, Collective Action And Habitability In Residential ContextsLabGov
Produzione di abitabilità e condizioni di efficacia di interventi di Social Housing
Post doc 2010 incoming (call 1)
The “Trentino - PCOFUND-GA-2008-226070” programme
Communication Infrastructure and Urban Commons: Localized Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
Yong-Chan Kim & Ji Min Park
Urban Communication Lab
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
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Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
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Michele Restuccia, Fostering a Civic Network as a Common
1. FOSTERING A CIVIC NETWORK
AS A DIGITAL COMMONS
Michele Restuccia
snark - space making
The City as a Commons
November 6, 2015 - Opificio Golinelli, Bologna
2. We will share our experience in managing and promoting the use of a local
web platform for civic purposes, Comunità, included within the Bologna city
web site, named Iperbole, which has been conceived and announced as a
digital commons.
As community managers of the platform, the three of us have been engaged
in many dimensions of such process.
We will present our insights and challenges, pointing to two questions: could
it be considered a digital commons? What should we work on to let it grow as
a commons?
We are here for...
3. 1994 - 2015
The city of Bologna first established its own web-site Rete civica Iperbole in
1994, along with other services as connectivity and e-mail address, for letting
its citizens access the Internet.
In December 2014, coherently with the results of the participatory process of
the city's digital agenda, the city web-site has been provided with two new
areas joining the homepage (www.comune.bologna.it).
Servizi Online (https://servizi.comune.bologna.it) offers a personal access to
several public services as welfare, mobility, taxes, etc., and Comunità
(www.comune.bologna.it/comunita) is a web platform for civic and
collaborative initiatives within the 'Collaborare è Bologna' policy.
4.
5. Our role
snark, an independent public processes design group, joined the Iperbole
team, made of municipal offices staff, contractors and researchers, since the
developing stages of Comunità, to define and run community management
activities specific for the platform.
We identified a proposal for a peer-to-peer platform aimed at hosting both
spontaneous practices and those resulting from calls, policies and projects
promoted by the city government and similar actors.
This concept was aimed at allowing all the relevant civic and collaborative
practices to be hosted, and having the users taking care of the platform as a
commons.
6. How does it work?
Joining Comunità requires individuals to undersign a charter that, along with
the terms and conditions of use, make them responsible for the maintenance
and the growing of the platform itself, defining it as a commons.
Comunità and Servizi On line are accessible with different digital identity
systems: FedERa, provided by a local government-owned company (the only
one allowing a complete use of Iperbole's services), as well as those provided
by social networks as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and Linkedin.
7. Comunità has been described as a civic network for the city of Bologna,
translating the name of the city website (Iperbole Civic Network), and trying
to provide an effective metaphor: it’s a network made of and for civic and
social initiatives.
The platform appears and works as a social network: individuals have to use
their own name, and are able to create, manage and browse contents
(profiles, posts, projects, etc.) as within Facebook, and most of the uses are
horizontal and transparent.
On the one hand users, both individually and for their own organizations can
autonomously publish contents.
On the other hand they can access to tools as public consultations,
questionnaires and send proposals for taking care of urban commons (within
the specific city regulation).
8.
9. Spreading and connecting
Since December 2014 we worked both off-line and on-line to promote the
knowledge and the use of Comunità, to find improvements and development
requests, and to engage both the community and the administration in the
process of taking care of the platform as a commons.
We held meetings and workshops involving city government offices,
individuals and private organizations. The underlying principle has always
been to understand what was already happening within the local community,
and to find the viable metaphors for on-line interactions.
We undertook the effort to punctually investigate the contents as soon as
they are published to promote connections inviting users to get in contact.
On the whole we either met or remotely assisted more than five-hundred
individuals, holding about one hundred meetings.
11. When the platform has been launched, a public consultation on the Charter
has been opened to the users. Due to the contents (creative commons
licensing, community management, etc.) and the timing and the stage of the
platform, just twenty users contributed.
Then we began a series of focus groups to analyze the platform use and to
find out a set of priorities.
In april we held a public workshop to review and co-design the platform's
homepage.
In May a new version of the homepage has been released, built around a
timeline of contents, and provided with a footer with informative contents as
a guide and a FAQ page, as well as new features.
12. Our efforts have also been oriented at designing new functions for social and
civic oriented policies, as they were requested by the city government
offices.
It’s been possible through an intense relation with several city government
offices, in particular with the one managing initiatives developed within the
city's Regulation on collaboration for urban commons, which is hosted in a
specific page offering two web forms to present proposals.
Since July 2015, a specific procedure has been made available to those
organizations (about 1.000’s) that have to confirm their accreditation within
the city government register for social and civic engaged actors, whose
status is officially recognized by the government itself.
The procedure makes the register management more transparent and fast,
as well as such organizations more accountable.
13. Insights
After a few months, we decided to invite a few organizations at public
presentations, to have them presenting their own projects, activities and
needs, letting them interact and discuss with those attending.
This format proved to effectively complete the on-line experience and to
provide new opportunities for collaborations.
Those who join the platform are interested and active: 100 out about 2.000
users (by end of September 2015) created contents, and an un-measurable
number of users commented and interacted somehow.
So far it is possible to say that Comunità is mostly used as a square (one of
the more frequent metaphors employed by the users themselves).
14. A co-design process requires a deep understanding of the available
resources.
Some proposals made within the consultation on the Charter haven’t been
implemented so far, specifically those requesting to change the Creative
Commons license from the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 to the
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.
The workshop for co-designing the homepage has been accounced as the
first of a series of four, but given the timing of developments and available
resources, the staff agreed on a less structured planning.
The source-code has been released within the GitHub platform, but the local
developing community haven't been succesfully engaged.
We use to the metaphor of the trading zone to describe our current role as
community manager: we are perceived as necessary to make users and
stakeholders collaborate, and to practice a proper negotiation between
different needs, costraints and requests.
This could contribute to slow down the creation of autonomous communities
within the platform.
15. Comunità as a digital commons?
So far we can report a positive assumption of Comunità as a digital commons
by its users and many stakeholders.
Despite that, we tried to find a way to understand what was missing to let it
grow as a commons.
We decided to analyse the platform according to the framework proposed by
Mayo Fuster Morell (2014) for Online Creation Communities: we looked at
the community control over the infrastructure governance, and at the
openess of resources and of the communities that created them.
16. In fact on the one hand despite the co-designing process, the governance of
the platform itself lies still within the city governement offices involved, and
even the more proactive users missed the momentum to discuss the issue.
On the other hand, what we reported on contents licesing and on the source-
code re-use underlines a limited access to common pool resources, and the
communities defined around specific themes didn't succeed in emerging as
autonomous groups.
“The resource could not be produced or preserved without the community. In
other words, the “production” of the community is a precondition for the
possibility to produce the resource.” (Fuster Morell, 2014)
17. Two opportunities
Opening the governance of such infrastructure isn't an easy process given its
technical and design features, but a sustainable and gradual process to widen
such governance has to be pursued.
Considering the actual engagement on the platform by its users, is to
'recruiting' one by one a group of users already publishing accurate contents
and pointing out potential unfair uses, discussing with them first how to create
such a group and how to and to reward them.
Further stages of a community governance for the platform could positively tap
on such experience and users.
18. Which solution could allow to host and foster thematic communities has been
a long standing question for our group.
During the last few months we tried to ease collaborations between
organizations and users with common interests or practices, generally
speaking, most of them didn't seem motivated to go further in interactions as
they didn't share a common need.
Recently we had a intense conversation with some members of a local
association, already active in the platform, that is developing new welfare
solutions for individuals, characterized by a peculiar care for the quality of the
experience they provide to those receveing their support.
They were concerned for the deteriorating quality of their 'supply chain': a
growing number of careless donations and the emerging of a lack of
accountability within some organizations.
19. They realized that they need their own 'charter of values' to be developed and
shared with their stakeholders and all those concerned, and want to use the
patform to promote such effort and to shortly begin to work on it.
We realized that such a task could be the proper trigger to create an active
and committed community, that could use the platform to collaborate in order to
achieve a shared results.
The leading association could be backed by our group for engaging other
subjects and going trhough the process stages.
We are committed to use this process as a test, to let them grow as
autonomous group that care and maintain their own space within the platform,
that could be a post or a project.
If the process will succeed, the following steps will be to replicate it and to
move this community to use the platform as a tool to foster their practices, and
hopefully co-design and to manage their own 'room'.