Presentation at International School for Digital Transformation, July 20, 2009. Porto, Portugal.
Discusses the concept of civic intelligence and the Liberating Voices pattern language project as an example of civic intelligence.
A comprehensive exploration of an operating next-generation organization.
Core founding assumptions
Vision & Values
Culture is key .. wirearchy as opposed to hierarchy
Practical operational aspects
The document discusses the concept of digital culture and its key components. It defines digital culture as consisting of remediation, participation, and bricolage. Examples are given of each, such as how Twitter allows for speedy individual contributions in a social environment (participation and remediation) and how The Huffington Post gathers information from various sources to build credibility (bricolage). The author concludes that digital culture coexists with other media cultures and will continue influencing how media is consumed.
Margarita Quihuis and Mark Nelson co-direct the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, which researches how to use technology to increase positive engagement between groups. They develop methods to measure engagement levels across differences and design interventions using behavior change and persuasive technology. Their goal is to create a profitable peace industry by showing how reducing conflicts benefits all sides. They provide examples like apps that increase civic participation and sharing economies that reduce costs while supporting local communities and diplomacy.
Social capital and development. There are two views of development: "Big Development" which focuses on transforming systems over the medium run through institutional reform, and "small development" which focuses on compensating for failed systems now by targeting particular groups. Social capital, understood as the norms and networks that enable cooperation, matters for both views. It is important for understanding how communities navigate social, rules-based, and meaning-based transitions during development. Social capital also influences contexts, processes, and adaptive decision-making, which are central to development policy and project implementation.
The document discusses issues with collective knowledge and "hive mind" approaches on the internet. It notes that while aggregation sites can be useful for filtering information, they also risk filtering out alternative perspectives and creating an overly homogenized view. True wisdom comes from balancing collective knowledge with the ideas and expertise of individuals. The best online communities are guided by well-meaning individuals who ask questions to spur discussion while allowing the collective to provide answers.
A would-be nanopreneur's Thinkerings on KnowledgenanoKnowledge
Tham, David. (2004, Nov) "A would-be nanopreneur’s Thinkerings on Knowledge". In David Gurteen (ed.), Global Knowledge Review. London: BizMedia; pp. 6-7.
The Global Knowledge Review offered subscribers "unrivalled access to thought leaders in the fields of knowledge, learning, creativity, innovation and personal development". Each issue was designed to bring "leading edge thinking from top knowledge professionals around the world together with the latest news from the knowledge industry".Subscription to Global Knowledge Review cost £135/€140/US $170 for 10 issues per year. The Global Knowledge Review is no longer being published and this item is an archived version.
A comprehensive exploration of an operating next-generation organization.
Core founding assumptions
Vision & Values
Culture is key .. wirearchy as opposed to hierarchy
Practical operational aspects
The document discusses the concept of digital culture and its key components. It defines digital culture as consisting of remediation, participation, and bricolage. Examples are given of each, such as how Twitter allows for speedy individual contributions in a social environment (participation and remediation) and how The Huffington Post gathers information from various sources to build credibility (bricolage). The author concludes that digital culture coexists with other media cultures and will continue influencing how media is consumed.
Margarita Quihuis and Mark Nelson co-direct the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, which researches how to use technology to increase positive engagement between groups. They develop methods to measure engagement levels across differences and design interventions using behavior change and persuasive technology. Their goal is to create a profitable peace industry by showing how reducing conflicts benefits all sides. They provide examples like apps that increase civic participation and sharing economies that reduce costs while supporting local communities and diplomacy.
Social capital and development. There are two views of development: "Big Development" which focuses on transforming systems over the medium run through institutional reform, and "small development" which focuses on compensating for failed systems now by targeting particular groups. Social capital, understood as the norms and networks that enable cooperation, matters for both views. It is important for understanding how communities navigate social, rules-based, and meaning-based transitions during development. Social capital also influences contexts, processes, and adaptive decision-making, which are central to development policy and project implementation.
The document discusses issues with collective knowledge and "hive mind" approaches on the internet. It notes that while aggregation sites can be useful for filtering information, they also risk filtering out alternative perspectives and creating an overly homogenized view. True wisdom comes from balancing collective knowledge with the ideas and expertise of individuals. The best online communities are guided by well-meaning individuals who ask questions to spur discussion while allowing the collective to provide answers.
A would-be nanopreneur's Thinkerings on KnowledgenanoKnowledge
Tham, David. (2004, Nov) "A would-be nanopreneur’s Thinkerings on Knowledge". In David Gurteen (ed.), Global Knowledge Review. London: BizMedia; pp. 6-7.
The Global Knowledge Review offered subscribers "unrivalled access to thought leaders in the fields of knowledge, learning, creativity, innovation and personal development". Each issue was designed to bring "leading edge thinking from top knowledge professionals around the world together with the latest news from the knowledge industry".Subscription to Global Knowledge Review cost £135/€140/US $170 for 10 issues per year. The Global Knowledge Review is no longer being published and this item is an archived version.
Changing the medium to challenge the message - A Conversational UI case studyJay Whittaker
Marshall McLuhan said “the medium is the message”, meaning the medium changes how the message is perceived. I tell a story about how we came to prototype a conversational UI, and how this new medium challenged the team's thinking. This is less about the 'how' of constructing a Conversational UI and more about the 'why'. What thinking we needed to challenge and why this approach helped achieve that. In a broader sense it reflects the evolution of the industry in the past 5 or so years.
Collaboration for Sustainability in a Networked World: Barriers and Advicealicemariearcher
I gave a presentation to the ideas ministry in Reykjavik, Iceland bringing forward the findings of my group thesis written in June 2009. This slideshow was just a taster of some of the findings including info on problems collaborations encounter and some advice.
This document provides notes from a digital business workshop. It includes:
- An agenda covering introductions, reviewing previous topics, exercises and presentations, and next steps.
- An introduction to the workshop facilitator and information on how to connect with her online.
- A discussion of previous workshop topics including the scope of AI and jobs of the future.
- Key topics for the day including defining digital business, analyzing macro trends through PESTLE analysis, and discussing waves of digital disruption.
Anyone designing new products, strategy or change will need to consider the future world in which their creations will exist. A little more than ten years ago I was asked this question:
“What will the world look like in 10 years and how might this affect the organisation?”
To answer this I needed to learn how to be a Futurist. It wouldn't be that hard right? I could just make a few wild predictions about a utopian future with robots and sprinkle with buzzwords? No, I'd have to take another route and learn more about the world in the process.
In this talk I will break from the future-gazing and do two things rare for a Futurist; I will look back into the past and I will focus on the predictions I got wrong. What can ten years of perspective teach us and how can we use that for looking again towards the future.
The Innovation team at the RNLI held a workshop using foresight techniques to explore potential future scenarios and develop strategic questions. Attendees prioritized key trends and insights that could impact the RNLI. They then created narratives describing how the RNLI could operate in future contexts. From these, the team generated questions about how the RNLI could adapt, such as how to identify future communities, collaborate with other organizations, and add value. These questions will inform a new foresight program to guide RNLI strategy.
This document contains biographies of several researchers attending a seminar on collective intelligence and civic governance from 29-30 September 2014 at the Open University in London. It provides background information on each attendee's past research interests and experiences in areas like online deliberation, civic intelligence, argumentation, living labs, and community informatics. Most express expectations to meet like-minded colleagues, explore new collaborations, and learn how technology can support collective problem solving and citizen participation.
These are slides from a session I am doing at the Joint Council of Extension Professionals 2014 Public Issues Leadership Workshop on April 7 in Alexandria, VA.
This document summarizes a presentation by Scott Hutcheson on developing effective strategies for addressing public issues. The presentation explores factors that contribute to successful strategies, including having a network structure, using an asset-based framework, an iterative planning process, and decentralized implementation. Survey results of strategy participants showed a positive correlation between effectiveness and these factors, such as network structures and building on assets. The presentation provides recommendations for improving strategies, such as reframing issues as opportunities and accelerating collaborations.
Networks, swarms and policy: what collective intelligence means for policy ma...Alberto Cottica
Policy makers are taking up network thinking; citizens are self-organizing in smart swarms displaying collectivley intelligent behaviour. I address the implications of these phenomena for policy making, and look at some tools being built by a project called CATALYST that might help both citizens and policy makers.
Technology Enabled Business TransformationMikkel Brahm
Findings from my PhD and professional experience as an Enterprise Architect on how we can guide transformation of businesses, and development of enabling technological solutions.
Presented at IT University, Copenhagen, Oct. 4 2019.
Presenter: Betsey Merkel, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) at the COINs-collaborative innovation networks Conference 2010, hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia USA on October 7-9, 2010.
Title: Contextual Transmedia Communications: Content and Creativity in Complexity
Presenter: Betsey Merkel, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) at the COINs-collaborative innovation networks Conference 2010, hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia USA on October 7-9, 2010.
From the Abstract and a Presentation Overview: The human race is faced with engaging in exponential levels of complexity resulting from expanding populations, limited natural resources, and maturating cycles of the World Wide Web. Habits of capacity building - that of inventory, meaning, and experimentation -- remain at levels suited to an industrial age of linear scarcity. The results of this mismatch can be seen in widespread U.S. unemployment, poverty, and exponential natural systems failure. Disruptions such as these will continue to diminish our collective creative abilities to advance innovative enterprise unless we think and act differently. How and what we communicate affects the economic impact of creativity.
Rethinking OSS In An Era of Cloud and MLPeter Wang
This document discusses issues related to open source software (OSS) in the era of cloud computing and machine learning. It addresses topics like sustainability of OSS projects, maintainer burnout, and commercial exploitation of OSS. It argues that many of these issues are really "business model" problems rather than technical problems. The document also discusses how OSS communities value empowering people to innovate through open collaboration and aligning various stakeholders. It emphasizes that open APIs and non-proprietary standards are important to preserve user choice and control as software becomes more distributed through APIs and services.
This document discusses experimental modes of civic engagement in civic tech projects. It introduces five modes or strategies for building civic tech in a community-driven way: 1) Utilize existing social infrastructure, 2) Utilize existing tech skills and infrastructure, 3) Create two-way educational environments, 4) Lead from shared spaces, and 5) Distribute power. For each mode, common tactics are provided that have been used successfully in various civic tech projects that prioritize community needs and involvement. The document aims to provide guidance and best practices for developing civic technology in a way that engages the community throughout the entire process.
Improving Civic Intelligence: Repairing the Engine on a Moving Car?Douglas Schuler
These are the slides from my keynote presentation at the recent Conference, Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia (EGOSE 2014), in St. Petersburg, Russia. Bottom line: There is a LOT to be done — and government, e- or not, can't do it without citizens.
Diffusion of Innovations Slides Ch.1 & 2David Onoue
The document summarizes key concepts from Everett Rogers' book Diffusion of Innovations. It discusses four main elements of diffusion: the innovation, communication channels, time, and the social system. It describes how innovations diffuse through a social system via communication channels over time. Individuals make innovation decisions through a process from awareness to adoption or rejection. Innovativeness varies among members of a social system in adopting innovations.
Building Community In The Civic Space-revitalizing communities in America.Betsey Merkel
I-Open teaches communities how to build open, neutral civic spaces to encourage new conversations and collaboration. Collaborative communities form around shared interests and opportunities and can operate both in-person and online using tools like social media. I-Open has launched several collaborative communities in Northeast Ohio addressing issues like technology, energy, and transparency, with the goal of building trust and networks globally. Next steps include learning more about civic spaces and communities and exploring examples like RealNEO and the Lakewood Observer.
This document discusses wicked problems and open innovation approaches to solving them. It defines wicked problems as having unclear definitions and solutions, involving multiple stakeholders with differing views. Normal solutions do not work for wicked problems which can only be understood through attempting solutions. It advocates understanding stakeholders and problems by questioning assumptions and mapping relationships. It then suggests ideating solutions through diverse groups, experimenting with early adopters, and implementing through the early majority. The periodic table framework shown organizes these open innovation activities for addressing wicked challenges through collaboration with society.
This document summarizes a conversation on social innovation in building a network society. It discusses the need for new social structures like maverick networks to foster innovation. It also addresses the importance of more effective communication through public consultation and agile policymaking. Failure is seen as necessary for learning and social progress. Small startups like experience platforms and charities can drive social innovation. New forms of storytelling and collaboration hubs are needed to share new ideas and opportunities. The big ideas are new networks, new consultation processes, and new platforms to collaboratively build a network society.
Will we be smart enough soon enough - putting civic intelligence into practi...Douglas Schuler
The document discusses the concept of civic intelligence, which refers to how smart collectivities are in relation to solving shared problems through civic means. It provides some definitions of civic intelligence and asserts that while civic intelligence exists, it may not be adequate to address growing global and local problems. Examples are given of projects that demonstrate civic intelligence, including sustainable prisons, the Beehive Design Collective, and the Liberating Voices project. The document discusses using pattern languages to organize civic intelligence projects and promote citizen engagement and activism. It concludes that assessing aspects like inclusion, creativity, collaboration, and addressing fundamental problems could be useful for comparing and measuring civic intelligence.
The document discusses civic intelligence and engagement. It begins by providing background on The Evergreen State College, noting its focus on teaching, interdisciplinary learning, and student-determined learning. It then discusses several of the college's programs and efforts related to civic engagement, including working to create equitable public spheres and developing online tools to facilitate distributed meetings. The document goes on to discuss civic intelligence, defining it as how smart society is at addressing its problems collectively. It notes some shortcomings of current civic intelligence and provides examples of projects that demonstrate civic intelligence. Finally, it discusses different perspectives on civic intelligence and the need to recognize and improve it.
Changing the medium to challenge the message - A Conversational UI case studyJay Whittaker
Marshall McLuhan said “the medium is the message”, meaning the medium changes how the message is perceived. I tell a story about how we came to prototype a conversational UI, and how this new medium challenged the team's thinking. This is less about the 'how' of constructing a Conversational UI and more about the 'why'. What thinking we needed to challenge and why this approach helped achieve that. In a broader sense it reflects the evolution of the industry in the past 5 or so years.
Collaboration for Sustainability in a Networked World: Barriers and Advicealicemariearcher
I gave a presentation to the ideas ministry in Reykjavik, Iceland bringing forward the findings of my group thesis written in June 2009. This slideshow was just a taster of some of the findings including info on problems collaborations encounter and some advice.
This document provides notes from a digital business workshop. It includes:
- An agenda covering introductions, reviewing previous topics, exercises and presentations, and next steps.
- An introduction to the workshop facilitator and information on how to connect with her online.
- A discussion of previous workshop topics including the scope of AI and jobs of the future.
- Key topics for the day including defining digital business, analyzing macro trends through PESTLE analysis, and discussing waves of digital disruption.
Anyone designing new products, strategy or change will need to consider the future world in which their creations will exist. A little more than ten years ago I was asked this question:
“What will the world look like in 10 years and how might this affect the organisation?”
To answer this I needed to learn how to be a Futurist. It wouldn't be that hard right? I could just make a few wild predictions about a utopian future with robots and sprinkle with buzzwords? No, I'd have to take another route and learn more about the world in the process.
In this talk I will break from the future-gazing and do two things rare for a Futurist; I will look back into the past and I will focus on the predictions I got wrong. What can ten years of perspective teach us and how can we use that for looking again towards the future.
The Innovation team at the RNLI held a workshop using foresight techniques to explore potential future scenarios and develop strategic questions. Attendees prioritized key trends and insights that could impact the RNLI. They then created narratives describing how the RNLI could operate in future contexts. From these, the team generated questions about how the RNLI could adapt, such as how to identify future communities, collaborate with other organizations, and add value. These questions will inform a new foresight program to guide RNLI strategy.
This document contains biographies of several researchers attending a seminar on collective intelligence and civic governance from 29-30 September 2014 at the Open University in London. It provides background information on each attendee's past research interests and experiences in areas like online deliberation, civic intelligence, argumentation, living labs, and community informatics. Most express expectations to meet like-minded colleagues, explore new collaborations, and learn how technology can support collective problem solving and citizen participation.
These are slides from a session I am doing at the Joint Council of Extension Professionals 2014 Public Issues Leadership Workshop on April 7 in Alexandria, VA.
This document summarizes a presentation by Scott Hutcheson on developing effective strategies for addressing public issues. The presentation explores factors that contribute to successful strategies, including having a network structure, using an asset-based framework, an iterative planning process, and decentralized implementation. Survey results of strategy participants showed a positive correlation between effectiveness and these factors, such as network structures and building on assets. The presentation provides recommendations for improving strategies, such as reframing issues as opportunities and accelerating collaborations.
Networks, swarms and policy: what collective intelligence means for policy ma...Alberto Cottica
Policy makers are taking up network thinking; citizens are self-organizing in smart swarms displaying collectivley intelligent behaviour. I address the implications of these phenomena for policy making, and look at some tools being built by a project called CATALYST that might help both citizens and policy makers.
Technology Enabled Business TransformationMikkel Brahm
Findings from my PhD and professional experience as an Enterprise Architect on how we can guide transformation of businesses, and development of enabling technological solutions.
Presented at IT University, Copenhagen, Oct. 4 2019.
Presenter: Betsey Merkel, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) at the COINs-collaborative innovation networks Conference 2010, hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia USA on October 7-9, 2010.
Title: Contextual Transmedia Communications: Content and Creativity in Complexity
Presenter: Betsey Merkel, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) at the COINs-collaborative innovation networks Conference 2010, hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia USA on October 7-9, 2010.
From the Abstract and a Presentation Overview: The human race is faced with engaging in exponential levels of complexity resulting from expanding populations, limited natural resources, and maturating cycles of the World Wide Web. Habits of capacity building - that of inventory, meaning, and experimentation -- remain at levels suited to an industrial age of linear scarcity. The results of this mismatch can be seen in widespread U.S. unemployment, poverty, and exponential natural systems failure. Disruptions such as these will continue to diminish our collective creative abilities to advance innovative enterprise unless we think and act differently. How and what we communicate affects the economic impact of creativity.
Rethinking OSS In An Era of Cloud and MLPeter Wang
This document discusses issues related to open source software (OSS) in the era of cloud computing and machine learning. It addresses topics like sustainability of OSS projects, maintainer burnout, and commercial exploitation of OSS. It argues that many of these issues are really "business model" problems rather than technical problems. The document also discusses how OSS communities value empowering people to innovate through open collaboration and aligning various stakeholders. It emphasizes that open APIs and non-proprietary standards are important to preserve user choice and control as software becomes more distributed through APIs and services.
This document discusses experimental modes of civic engagement in civic tech projects. It introduces five modes or strategies for building civic tech in a community-driven way: 1) Utilize existing social infrastructure, 2) Utilize existing tech skills and infrastructure, 3) Create two-way educational environments, 4) Lead from shared spaces, and 5) Distribute power. For each mode, common tactics are provided that have been used successfully in various civic tech projects that prioritize community needs and involvement. The document aims to provide guidance and best practices for developing civic technology in a way that engages the community throughout the entire process.
Improving Civic Intelligence: Repairing the Engine on a Moving Car?Douglas Schuler
These are the slides from my keynote presentation at the recent Conference, Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia (EGOSE 2014), in St. Petersburg, Russia. Bottom line: There is a LOT to be done — and government, e- or not, can't do it without citizens.
Diffusion of Innovations Slides Ch.1 & 2David Onoue
The document summarizes key concepts from Everett Rogers' book Diffusion of Innovations. It discusses four main elements of diffusion: the innovation, communication channels, time, and the social system. It describes how innovations diffuse through a social system via communication channels over time. Individuals make innovation decisions through a process from awareness to adoption or rejection. Innovativeness varies among members of a social system in adopting innovations.
Building Community In The Civic Space-revitalizing communities in America.Betsey Merkel
I-Open teaches communities how to build open, neutral civic spaces to encourage new conversations and collaboration. Collaborative communities form around shared interests and opportunities and can operate both in-person and online using tools like social media. I-Open has launched several collaborative communities in Northeast Ohio addressing issues like technology, energy, and transparency, with the goal of building trust and networks globally. Next steps include learning more about civic spaces and communities and exploring examples like RealNEO and the Lakewood Observer.
This document discusses wicked problems and open innovation approaches to solving them. It defines wicked problems as having unclear definitions and solutions, involving multiple stakeholders with differing views. Normal solutions do not work for wicked problems which can only be understood through attempting solutions. It advocates understanding stakeholders and problems by questioning assumptions and mapping relationships. It then suggests ideating solutions through diverse groups, experimenting with early adopters, and implementing through the early majority. The periodic table framework shown organizes these open innovation activities for addressing wicked challenges through collaboration with society.
This document summarizes a conversation on social innovation in building a network society. It discusses the need for new social structures like maverick networks to foster innovation. It also addresses the importance of more effective communication through public consultation and agile policymaking. Failure is seen as necessary for learning and social progress. Small startups like experience platforms and charities can drive social innovation. New forms of storytelling and collaboration hubs are needed to share new ideas and opportunities. The big ideas are new networks, new consultation processes, and new platforms to collaboratively build a network society.
Will we be smart enough soon enough - putting civic intelligence into practi...Douglas Schuler
The document discusses the concept of civic intelligence, which refers to how smart collectivities are in relation to solving shared problems through civic means. It provides some definitions of civic intelligence and asserts that while civic intelligence exists, it may not be adequate to address growing global and local problems. Examples are given of projects that demonstrate civic intelligence, including sustainable prisons, the Beehive Design Collective, and the Liberating Voices project. The document discusses using pattern languages to organize civic intelligence projects and promote citizen engagement and activism. It concludes that assessing aspects like inclusion, creativity, collaboration, and addressing fundamental problems could be useful for comparing and measuring civic intelligence.
The document discusses civic intelligence and engagement. It begins by providing background on The Evergreen State College, noting its focus on teaching, interdisciplinary learning, and student-determined learning. It then discusses several of the college's programs and efforts related to civic engagement, including working to create equitable public spheres and developing online tools to facilitate distributed meetings. The document goes on to discuss civic intelligence, defining it as how smart society is at addressing its problems collectively. It notes some shortcomings of current civic intelligence and provides examples of projects that demonstrate civic intelligence. Finally, it discusses different perspectives on civic intelligence and the need to recognize and improve it.
No Yin Without Yang: Community Needs Civic Intelligence to be CompleteDouglas Schuler
This was presented at the Community Now conference at the Jewish Museum in Berlin in February 2015. http://community-infrastructuring.org/wp-content/uploads/Community_Now_Program.pdf
What is civic intelligence? Why is it so important? Why is it threatened and what can we do about it. Some focus on Trumpism in the United States but civic intelligence is needed everywhere.
Ems - Summer I ’11 - T101 Midterm Exam ReviewLindsayEms
The document provides an overview of key concepts relating to media life perspectives and media usage. It discusses how:
- We live in media and define ourselves through media with no distinction between biology and technology.
- A good media life focuses on cultivating responsibility, goodness and beauty rather than distinguishing media from real life.
- Media life basics include how media shape our understanding of the world and identities, and the participation gap in skills and access to opportunities in a media-centric society.
- Companies are adapting to become "marketplaces" that personalize media experiences and foster social participation through intimate consumer knowledge and unobtrusive, helpful advertising.
1) The document discusses building new social organizations through collective intelligence to address humanity's main challenges, rather than issues like hunger or poverty.
2) It proposes applying existing scientific models and observations to design a sustainable world through permaculture, which includes designing interactions between people, resources, technologies, and systems.
3) The discussion centers around integrating different "memes" or ways of thinking to embrace all people and accelerate psychological and spiritual growth for everyone through appropriate design.
In this session, we talk about the mobile and social web, and how it shapes economy, individual behavior and well-being, political events, and society as a whole.
This document summarizes the findings of a 2003-2006 study on media consumption and public engagement. The study was replicated across Europe, the Americas, and New Zealand. It used both quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (interviews, diaries) methods to examine how people understand and engage with public issues through their media diets. Key findings included that digital media do not replace traditional sources; social media consumption does not imply online deliberation; and communicative deliberation does not necessarily lead to political engagement. The study also found that traditional models in political science do not fully capture new forms of participation emerging online.
A presentation from the Online Deliberation conference in Leeds. Its intended use is jump-starting the idea of developing a "Leeds Declaration" that draws attention to online (and offline) deliberation as an important tool for civic society.
Honours lecture about leadership, crowdsourcing and social mediaFrank Willems
Frank Willems gave a lecture about crowdsourcing and social media. He is a professor at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen and innovator in directing and crowdsourcing. The agenda included discussing change management and leadership, social networks, crowdsourcing, social media as a trigger for change, and the Hanze Social Media Lab project. The lecture covered concepts like social capital, connecting social capital, crowdsourcing, tribes, co-creation and examples like LEGO design crowdsourcing, fishermen collecting data, restaurant reviews, and bird counting communities.
What do we mean by dialogue? Certainly it is more than conscious speaking and attentive listening in a group. Indeed, when participating in a real dialogue we recognize and understand the depth and value of the experience, but may find it impossible to call it up on demand. We know dialogue is much more than method, and does not lend itself to methodological practices. But perhaps it can play a more meaningful role in design practice, in particular for design situations where stakeholders must have a voice in and play an active role in the deployment of designed solutions.
Collective intelligence refers to the ability of groups of people to solve problems smarter than any individual alone. Examples like Wikipedia show that large groups of people can work together to create and share knowledge without centralized control. As technology enables more connection and collaboration, collective problem solving will play a larger role in shaping decisions and progress in the 21st century compared to the 20th century model of top-down control and competition.
This document discusses designing cities to foster connection and regeneration. It argues that modernity has led to fragmentation and unsustainability that must be reversed by reweaving rich webs of synergistic relationships. This reconnection of social and environmental fabrics is a creative challenge for the future. While many partial solutions are proposed, they are often disconnected and lack a larger strategic framework informed by an inspiring vision of an alternative to the status quo. Facing the great challenges will require profound societal changes to foster sustainability.
KCB201 Week 12 Lecture: Knowledge Structures and Collective IntelligenceAxel Bruns
This document discusses knowledge representation on Wikipedia and the balance needed between community participation and diversity. It also examines the roles of experts versus general participants ("folks") and how expertise can be acknowledged. Different methods are presented for evaluating contributions and highlighting expertise in collaborative knowledge systems, with challenges around reliability and gaming the system. The document concludes by discussing Pierre Lévy's vision of collective intelligence through iterative finding, evaluating and sharing of information, and how the intelligence of such collective systems depends on protections against disruption and the skills/capacities of participants.
Helen Beetham discusses the need for universities to rethink how knowledge and thinking are practiced in their curriculums in a post-pandemic world. She argues that curriculums should value sustainability thinking, decolonization, digital practices like design thinking and coding, and data literacy. Universities also need to foster critical thinking about technology and its impacts. To prepare students for uncertain futures, curriculums should incorporate futures thinking exercises to imagine alternative futures and the knowledge needed to thrive in them.
The document provides an overview and review of key concepts for a midterm exam on media and technology:
1) According to media scholar Mark Deuze, we live in media and derive our sense of identity from it, not outside of it.
2) People in a "media life" focus on crafting a good, responsible, and beautiful experience of existing fully within media environments.
3) Media convergence allows audiences to participate in content creation and experience stories across multiple platforms, with each platform contributing part of the overall narrative.
4) Media industries appeal to emotions to engage audiences in "free labor" that makes them both loyal consumers and participants.
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Patterns and Pattern Languages have been used to design buildings as well as software and devices such as the iPhone. They can be used for "loose coordination" among people working on "wicked problems" such as climate change mitigation and more just and equitable societies.
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(𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝟏𝟎𝟎) (𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏)-𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐬
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐏𝐏 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬:
- Understand the goals and objectives of the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) curriculum, recognizing its importance in fostering practical life skills and values among students. Students will also be able to identify the key components and subjects covered, such as agriculture, home economics, industrial arts, and information and communication technology.
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-Define entrepreneurship, distinguishing it from general business activities by emphasizing its focus on innovation, risk-taking, and value creation. Students will describe the characteristics and traits of successful entrepreneurs, including their roles and responsibilities, and discuss the broader economic and social impacts of entrepreneurial activities on both local and global scales.
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The recent surge in pro-Palestine student activism has prompted significant responses from universities, ranging from negotiations and divestment commitments to increased transparency about investments in companies supporting the war on Gaza. This activism has led to the cessation of student encampments but also highlighted the substantial sacrifices made by students, including academic disruptions and personal risks. The primary drivers of these protests are poor university administration, lack of transparency, and inadequate communication between officials and students. This study examines the profound emotional, psychological, and professional impacts on students engaged in pro-Palestine protests, focusing on Generation Z's (Gen-Z) activism dynamics. This paper explores the significant sacrifices made by these students and even the professors supporting the pro-Palestine movement, with a focus on recent global movements. Through an in-depth analysis of printed and electronic media, the study examines the impacts of these sacrifices on the academic and personal lives of those involved. The paper highlights examples from various universities, demonstrating student activism's long-term and short-term effects, including disciplinary actions, social backlash, and career implications. The researchers also explore the broader implications of student sacrifices. The findings reveal that these sacrifices are driven by a profound commitment to justice and human rights, and are influenced by the increasing availability of information, peer interactions, and personal convictions. The study also discusses the broader implications of this activism, comparing it to historical precedents and assessing its potential to influence policy and public opinion. The emotional and psychological toll on student activists is significant, but their sense of purpose and community support mitigates some of these challenges. However, the researchers call for acknowledging the broader Impact of these sacrifices on the future global movement of FreePalestine.
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What Type of Digital Transformation? Reinventing Social Thought and Action with Civic Intelligence
1. What Type of Digital Transformation? Reinventing Social Thought and Action with Civic Intelligence Douglas Schuler International School on Digital Transformation Porto, Portugal — July 20, 2009
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3. Confession: I believe that an activist approach to research (and related work) is absolutely essential. Assertion: We’re doomed without it.
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5. Part 1. Civic Intelligence as an appropriate paradigm
6. In philosophy, what is important is not so much the answers that are given, but rather the questions that are asked. - Bertram Russell
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10. Will implies an orientation towards the future Will we be smart enough, soon enough ? implies that there is time criticality implies that we aren’t certain about the answer implies that we aren’t certain about the answer Will we implies a collective actor and collective effort Will we be smart implies a cognitive orientation; reasoning with information and communication Will we be smart enough, soon enough ? implies that we aren’t certain about the answer Incremental Inspection of the Question Will we be smart enough implies that a certain level of knowledge exists and the potential to act effectively and responsibly on that information exists
13. Some Definitions Informally, civic intelligence refers to how smart collectivities are in relation to their problems. C ivic intelligence is a form of collective intelligence that focuses on shared problems. Although we know that civic intelligence exists, this fact is not explicitly acknowledged and hence not something that we can readily examine or improve.
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15. Some Assertions Today more than ever, civic intelligence is needed to address the problems we now face. C ivic intelligence is distributed throughout society — not just among elites. Also, it is clear that elites can’t (won’t?) solve these problems by themselves. Although we know that civic intelligence exists, the capacity that exists may not be adequate for our pressing needs. Civic intelligence — its understanding and development — could serve as a paradigm for the DT community
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17. Friends of Nature, Beijing Creating maps of environmentally interesting locations builds citizenship skills
22. An open source repository for leaked documents supports transparency and open policy analysis
23. Worldwide Protests Against Invasion of Iraq “ The February 15, 2003 anti-war protest was a coordinated day of protests across the world against the imminent invasion of Iraq. Millions of people protested in approximately 800 cities around the world. According to BBC News, between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of the 15th and 16th; other estimates range from eight million to thirty million.” (Wikipedia)
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34. Liberating Voices A participatory project started in 2001 to catalog issues and actions that promote positive social change. The online “pool” contains over 400 “patterns.” The book contains 136 patterns (also online) contributed by 85 authors. A Civic Intelligence Project
35. Project Focus Construction of alternative versions to the official version of information and communication systems at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Creation of a radical orientation in which ordinary people assert their rights, and their responsibilities, as citizens of the world. Cultivation of the collective intelligence of the world’s citizens, built on values, creativity, and courage.
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37. http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/ Each pattern is a seed for positive social intervention from a grassroots perspective. Each pattern contains three main parts: problem / context / solution. A pattern language is an ordered collection of patterns. (The concepts are from Christopher Alexander et al, A Pattern Language, 1977) We are developing a set of cards that we have started to use in workshops. We are currently transforming our web site to help support use and further development of the patterns. We are still seeking patterns. Please consider it!
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42. Community Networks Communities often lack the information and communication infrastructure needed to: a) support and sustain the social networks of clubs, organisations, associations, groups, agencies, families and individual citizens that constitute the structures, organisation and activities of community life; and b) enable effective organisation, planning and enactment of local campaigns when threatened from outside. The potential scope for ICT to support, enhance and sustain community communications is immense but effective community networks can only be built through meaningful and mutual partnerships of knowledge exchange. If community networks are to emerge as significant components of modern community life, external partners must understand this in context and content. Only then can they contribute in a meaningful way. Written by Peter Day
43. Meaningful Maps Like many patterns, this “works” several ways — developing the maps educates the developers; using the maps educates the users. Written by Andy Dearden and Scot Fletcher
44. Experimental School Schools with unchanging assumptions are unlikely to meet society's changing needs. This is unfortunate at a time when the need for public problem-solving is the most acute. If schools aren't innovative and if people don't seriously think about how education can play new roles in new ways, it's unlikely that the society will be innovative in cultural, technical, scientific, or civic thought or action. An experimental school attempts to accomplish positive aims while adopting experimentation as a guiding orientation. It will work towards its goals through careful and ongoing evaluation of the approaches that the school is trying. The concepts of an Experimental School can be useful to anybody who is involved in or interested in education. The key concepts are respect for learning, reflection, and a faith in the importance of reasoning and, especially, reasoning together. School according to John Dewey should be an experiment in collective action and it should break down walls between academia and practical work. Adopting an "experimental" orientation reflects a belief in meliorism — that things can improve through directed effort — and an acknowledgment that nothing is perfect; the need for adjustment is an unavoidable and normal fact of life. Written by Douglas Schuler, Steve Schapp and Thad Curtz
45. Community Animators Development professionals often find it difficult to adequately assess the broad spectrum of problems a community faces, as well as grasp and utilize the various assets the community has to work with. The lack of grassroots knowledge has proven problematic in that development schemes are often mismatched in scale and relevance to the community’s needs, abilities and liabilities. Thus the conceived solutions for encouraging community capacities and livelihoods fall short of their objectives. The community animator can act as a critical link between the community and any NGO Collaborator. It should be noted that by those in the field for social change that local citizens and activists can often better activate a community’s sentiments and bring about awareness for the possibility to realize change than an outsider who may be perceived to have little understanding of the real issues at stake. Beyond the processes of concientization that a community animator can bring to the process; NGOs can also assist these community members in training for information gathering and needs assessments to help refine the basic kinds of projects and programs that might be of benefit to a community. Written by Justin Smith
46. Indicators Citizens are often bystanders in their own lives. Research, even that which is putatively conducted in their behalf, is often irrelevant or even damaging to the livelihoods of "ordinary" people and marginalized groups alike. Since it is intended to promote academic aims, such as publication in an academic journal, rather than community goals the idea of actual benefit based on the results of the research often takes a back seat. This lack of genuine community involvement or connection helps lead to the self-perpetuating cycle of citizen disempowerment. Citizens need to construct community and civic indicators, publish them, discuss them, measure them, publicize them and develop policy and projects that address them. Indicator projects seems to be best coordinated through organizations and groups. Written by Douglas Schuler
47. Civic Capabilities Peoples can often find the path to social and economic empowerment blocked to them due to any number of circumstances whether they be lack of literacy and information, limited access to health care, a low-level of durable assets, political marginalization and so forth. Ultimately, the idea of engaging capabilities is a critical component to almost any pattern language we might wish to construct. Therefore, when constructing a pattern language that is meant to address development in anyway it is necessary to consider the ways in which these projects will utilize the individual as well as collective capabilities of a community (and associated development partners) and how they will be utilized to support and encourage the further realization of these freedoms in peoples lives. Written by Justin Smith
48. Power Research Research power — what it is, how is it organized and applied, who has it. Although it is important to make the findings freely available. It is at least as important to disseminate the ideas and techniques that help people initiate their own power research projects. This pattern particularly applies to government and corporations but other people, institutions, and groups (such as hate groups, militias or organized crime families) need to be thoroughly investigated as well. Written by Douglas Schuler
49. Strategic Capacity Occasionally in the course of human history, a small group with meager resources fighting a powerful foe, actually wins. One of the most famous of those struggles is that of the biblical shepherd David vanquishing the seemingly invincible Goliath. A thousand other struggles, against poverty, against oppression, against environmental degradation, retell the David and Goliath story with equally improbable outcomes. What's the secret to these unlikely successes? Marshall Ganz explains that decisions are expressions of strategy and that strategy is a type of group creative thinking or distributed cognition that is sometimes akin to the "performance of a jazz ensemble." Strategic Capacity uses motivation, access to salient knowledge, and the heuristic processes that organizational leaders use as the key factors behind effective strategic capacity. Written by Douglas Schuler
50. Public Agenda At any given time, there are a few issues that are receiving "public attention." These issues change dramatically from day to day offering the public very little time to actually think about one issue, before another one takes its place. In addition to the manic novelty, the stories offer little real information, especially about alternatives or opportunities for public involvement. Even the "news" is entertainment. It shouldn’t be necessary to break glass.. Who decides what issues are important, what issues are on the public agenda? Written by Douglas Schuler
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58. Civic Intelligence Models Naturalistic Model #2 (1) orientation, (2) organization, (3) engagement, (4) intelligence, (5) products and projects, and (6) resources
64. People can be intelligent. They can also be compassionate, creative, enthusiastic, and dedicated. Perhaps societies can too. This community can play an important role. And we may decide to sign on.