Civic Wisdom Quote: Change Takes Place in Biological Time
Prehistoric
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"Change takes place in biological time." - Ken Homer, Collaborative Conversations, San Rafael, California.
Prehistoric
Image Copyright Alice Merkel.
"Change takes place in biological time." - Ken Homer, Collaborative Conversations, San Rafael, California.
The I-Open Civic Wisdom Library is an archive of video interviews contributed by entrepreneurial leaders in research and industry. Stories share individual perspectives and accounts of insight - civic intelligence - through the lens of the Innovation Framework, a heuristic model of investment in Open Source Economic Development.
Interviews are available at I-Open's channel on Livestream. Scroll down the broadcast channel page to access the Archive Folders. Share your favorite links on Twitter and Facebook and embed the player on your blog and website! Share Civic Wisdom Widely!
I-Open Civic Wisdom Library Index 2010
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Images describe Citizens Academy, a leading charter school in Cleveland, Ohio. I-Open visited Perry White, Founder and Executive Director, Citizens Academy in June 2010 to learn more about his life long work connecting children, learning and justice.
Since 1999, Perry has led a transformative model of charter school education, now a top-performing urban school in the state of Ohio with a national reputation for successful students.
You can learn more in the introductory interview, Connecting Children, Learning and Justice with Perry White at I-Open on Vimeo www.vimeo.com/18102918
Interpretation
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Perry White, Founder and Executive Director, Citizens Academy of Cleveland, Ohio, talks about his passion to connect children, learning and justice in the video below. Since 1999, Perry has led what is now a transformative model of charter school education, and one of the top-performing urban schools in the state of Ohio with a national reputation for successful students.
"I think many people settle and tend to let themselves off the hook,” said Perry White, a former social worker who founded the Citizens’ Academy charter school in Cleveland in 1999 — naïvely, he now recognizes — and has overseen its climb from an F on its state report card in 2003 to an A last year. “It took us a while to understand we needed a no-excuses culture,” he said, one of “really sweating the small stuff." - New York Times, Education, May 1, 2010 Article Here.
Connecting Children, Learning and Justice from I-Open on Vimeo.
Reference Links
• Citizens Academy http://www.citizensacademy.org/
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The Power of Collaborative Conversations from I-Open on Vimeo.
Ken Homer, Principal, Collaborative Conversations and David Hodgson, Converger, International Futures Forum, Principal and Founding Member, The IdeaHive, talk about the transformative value collaborative conversation brings to individuals, organizations and government. (Transcription below.)
Ken and David share one-of-a-kind perspectives, knowledge and stories about the powerful value of collaborative conversation to advance a meaningful society.
Ken is a Collaborative Coach and Consultant, and Principal of Collaborative Conversations, Adjunct Faculty-Mentor at New Ventures West, and Consultant, Facilitator and Coach at Omega Point International. Ken is past Director of Community Outreach, The World Cafe Foundation.
We wish to thank Ken and David for their generous contribution of knowledge and wisdom to the I-Open community.
REI.Tuesdays
2003 - 2005 REI.Tuesdays.-- weekly civic forums convened by the Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio engaged over 3,000 civic, business, government, and academic leaders from across 23 Northeast Ohio counties.
REI.Tuesdays civic forum conversations (Slide #2 above) address enterprise opportunity through the lens of the Innovation Framework - a heuristic model of investment in Open Source Economic Development (Slide #3).
The conversation matrix (Slide #4) provides an information infrastructure to underpin strategic scheduling and project presentation in the entrepreneurial community. Civic forums also introduce Strategic Doing - a simple, yet disciplined process to quickly move ideas to action (Slide #5) - and offer feedback loops for project work continuing outside of the regular forum schedule.
REI.Tuesdays is an example of how the civic forum process builds open economic networks for innovation to flourish and generates transformative enterprise for regional business development, human and organizational capacity building (Slide #6).
In terms of a model, REI.Tuesdays
The I-Open Civic Forum process is a successful approach to connect regional research and industry innovation for enterprise development in Open Source Economic Development.
Betsey Merkel, Co-Founder & Director of I-Open, is designer of the I-Open Civic Forum process.
References:
Open Ceiling
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The Midtown Wednesdays Conversation Matrix was built for Midtown Wednesdays, an I-Open Civic Forum convened by Chancellor University (formerly Myers University) in Cleveland, Ohio.
The matrix (screenshot below) is a tool to loosely organize conversations at a shared level of inquiry from several perspectives.
Midtown Wednesday forums sought to examine three questions:
1. What is our innovation opportunity?
2. What is our creative industry opportunity? and,
3. What is our global opportunity?
Further framing of conversations via the categories of the Innovation Framework - a heuristic model for innovation investment in Open Source Economic Development - helps coordinators, communicators, and conveners guide community learning.
Matrices provide an under gird for conversations in their generation of social networks, collaborative economic development projects, and new business development.
You can learn more about Midtown Wednesdays, a public-private partnership to strengthen economic development in Cleveland, hosted by Chancellor University, the City of Cleveland's Department of Economic Development, National City Bank, and I-Open in 2006 at I-Open's Civic Projects.
Midtown Wednesdays Conversation Matrix
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Street Branding
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Business, government, academic, and civic leaders have contributed over 10,000 minutes of knowledge, insights and innovations to I-Open interview and conversation research.
Each interview yields unique ideas, perspectives and discoveries to inform and guide leaders in education, economic, and workforce development.
Sharing information promotes higher levels of creativity and opens doors to unforeseen business collaborations. In the socially connected world of an innovation economy, sharing what you know increases your value to those you attract.
Interview information is published as video, document, image, and creative digital media and shared across I-Open social media platforms and their communities. You'll find a wealth of civic knowledge listed under "Libraries" on this blog's right side bar.
If you're a leader interested to know how to share your knowledge further, or just need a nice nudge to remember to share widely, we've assembled a how-to of simple steps for you to take below.
Street Light
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Today, we are at the intersection of three maturing realms: human sociality, economic infrastructure, and deteriorating environmental systems.
These three intersections offer us great opportunity to explore and invent transformative enterprise solutions.
With the aid of technology, we are able to replicate, scale and leverage extensible solutions across diverse sectors.
Enterprise Intersections in Open Source Economic Development
Message Receiver
Jackie Stevenson, Founder and CEO, The Spirit of Leadership, is a thought leader and research practitioner studying how we relate to one another in meaningful ways to strengthen social engagement.
In the video below, Jackie shares a brief introduction about why her work applied in relation to nature, natural systems and fine-tuned through shared experiences with large animals - specifically horses -advances the discovery of successful leadership practice. We can apply all of these lessons to building social networks for collaboration in open innovation systems.
The Nature in Leadership - Introduction from I-Open on Vimeo.
Learn more about Jackie's insightful work at The Spirit of Leadership. We'll be posting the complete video interview, transcription and photo collection here soon.
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