Unemployment Steady at 9.6 Percent | Jobs Bytes

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A sobering mirror to a story that might be entitled, "It's Not About Jobs."

Read the article by CEPR's David Rosnick here.

The solution resides in how we collaborate, support, and affirm the work of local entrepreneurs.

A first step is to invest in the five areas of the Innovation Framework of Open Source Economic Development:

Brainpower - our most competitive creative asset which resides in the mind of every individual;

Innovation and Entrepreneurial Networks - building the important social and resource network infrastructure needed to translate creativity into enterprise;

Quality, Connected Places - open up storefronts and offices to create the safe, neutral spaces for people to begin important new conversations;

Dialogue & Inclusion - investing time, attention, and working knowledge in focused conversations of willing participants;

Branding Stories - the powerful stories we share and tell one another to enrich our understanding and ability to connect to a future that is already here.

These investments combined with "Strategic Doing" - investing in our ability to take action together based on evidence of what is new and unfamiliar - will yield the kinds of enterprises needed to re-engage with thriving cycles of prosperity.

Learn more about the Innovation Framework here.

Learn more about Strategic Doing here.


The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity | Reports

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REPORT: The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR):

"In making the argument for fiscal austerity, some have claimed that pushing for lower deficits rather than stimulus spending is a better route for restoring growth," said Dean Baker, author of the report. "However, the severity of the Great Recession in the United States means that austerity policies would almost certainly result in further contraction of the economy."

Old habits of decision making reside in scarcity-based mindsets, residual and out of place in a postindustrial age of complexity and abundance.

The real restoration is already here in the small and transformative numbers of people and their ideas. The next step is "Strategic Doing" - working together to bring these ideas to fruition by sharing Brainpower and resources in communities, organizations, on campuses, and in companies.

COINs 2010 Conference and City of Savannah Images [swarm creativity] : Strategy-Nets

This is the collection of images from the COINs 2010 Conference hosted at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in the City of Savannah, Georgia.

Images work in conjunction with other web 2.0 tools by helping us to visualize a broader context for our social and economic investments in Open Source Economic Development.

Images here include the City of Savannah, SCAD facility, conference speakers, keynotes, workshops, informal gatherings, and paper presentations.

COINs 2011 will be hosted by the HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design in Basel, Switzerland.

Images contributed by Alice Merkel on Flickr.

 

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The bulk of COINs 2010 video content is posted.

We've created a channel information index to help viewers take in a visual overview of content as well as navigate the library archive quickly.

We'll be updating the index as the remaining inteview content is edited and published!

 On-Demand Folders

  1. COINs Conference Research 
    1. COINs 2010 Conference
      1. Coolhunting Academy 2010
      2. Keynotes
        1. COINs Conference
          1. Opening Keynote Conversation: Lybba - Unleashing swarm creativity to make open-source healthcare a reality with Jesse Dylan and Peter Gloor and Ken Riopelle, Moderator
          2. Sandy Pentland: "Kith and Kin: How Social Networks Make Us Smart"
          3. Richard Buchanan: "The Convergence of Design & Management"
          4. Design Ethos Opening Keynote: For Your Information, Sustainability is a Politics, and Not a Cheap or Quick One, Cameron Tonkinwise, Parson's New School for Design
          5. Design Ethos Keynote: Design as the Bridge Between Human Needs, Society, and the Environment, Terry Irwin, Carnegie Mellon University
      3. Workshops
        1. Track 1 Session 1: Basics of Social Network Analysis: Network Analysis 101, Ken Riopelle, Wayne State University
        2. Track 1 Session 2: Coolfarming Training, Peter Gloor, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
        3. Track 2 Session 1: Innovation Made Physical: Bodystorming, Dennis Schleicher, User Experience Sears Holdings
        4. Track 2 Session 2: Service Design Thinking, Beth Johnson, Craig LaRosa, Jon Campbell, Design Continuum
        5. Track 3 Session 1: Virtual Collaboration: Global Teaming, Julia Gluesing, Wayne State University
        6. Track 2 Session 2: Collaborative Social Change: Designing for Impact, Melinda Weekes, Interaction Institute for Social Change
      4. Science of Collaboration Papers
        1. Abstracts
          1. Design Framework, Alan Ricks and Michael Murphy MASS Design Group
        2. COINs 2010 Papers
          1. COINs 2010 Paper Session | One
          2. COINs 2010 Interactive Paper Session | One
          3. COINs 2010 Paper Session | Two
          4. COINs 2010 Interactive Paper Session | Two
          5. COINs 2010 Paper Session | Three
    2. COINs 2009 Conference
      1. Conversations in Collaboration: COINs Community
      2. Conversations in Collaboration: Health Care
  2. Swarm Creativity in Industry
    1. Creativity
    2. COINs - collaborative innovation networks
      1. COINs, Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
    3. Cool Places
      1. Creating the right space to foster a spirit of innovation, Dr. Thomas J Allen, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management
    4. Swarms
    5. Coolhunting

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Click on "Grab Widget" to be taken to the COINs Conference channel. From there, you can copy widget code for pasting to your website or blog and share the library with people you know.

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COINs 2010 Conference Instructions

COINs 2010 Conference Instructions 

Translations available at: http://tiny.cc/ljhqt

The Swarm Creativity Framework is a guide to help entrepreneurs, scientists and business leaders successfully navigate a shift in mindset from scarcity to abundance. Swarm creativity is a discipline driven by the laws of natural systems, and is designed to catalyze individual creativity, communication and collaboration, ultimately leading to flourishing cultures of innovation.

Swarm Creativity powers the COINs 2010 community and with it the Science of Collaboration. Researchers and industry leaders share insights and innovations in health care, design, the creative industries, engineering and technology. The community generates a collective intelligence to solve the social, economic and environmental challenges of the world.

This is the value of I-Open interviews and conversations.

The CEPR Recession Waste Clock | Graphic Economics

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September 28, 2010

The current downturn had led to the worst period of sustained unemployment since the Great Depression. This suffering is especially tragic because, like the Great Depression, it is entirely the result of misguided economic policy.

Unemployment corresponds to lost production of goods and services. Construction workers could have been providing safe and energy efficient housing to people who lack adequate shelter, but instead they were left sitting idle. Manufacturing workers, who could have been producing more fuel-efficient cars and appliances, are instead getting unemployment checks. Health care workers who could have been ensuring that people received adequate care and teachers who could have been in classrooms, helping educate our children, are instead spending their time looking for work.

This is an incredible loss not only for these workers who must struggle to make ends meet, but also for our economy and society. The CEPR Recession Waste Clock allows people to see the value of the goods and services that we have lost in this downturn. It measures the gap between potential GDP (as calculated by the Congressional Budget Office) and actual GDP.

Given the current unemployment rate of 9.6 percent, the amount of lost GDP as measured by this gap increases at the rate of $2.873 billion per day. This comes to $120 million an hour, $2 million a minute or $33 thousand a second.

You can also see the amount of lost output measured in units of houses, college educations, or personal mp3 players.

Building a COINs Strategy for Education, Economic, and Workforce Development

Collaborate: Leading Regional Innovation Clusters - A Report from the Council on Competitiveness, identifies three important components of 21st Century innovation based prosperity:

  1. Conversations 
  2. Collaboration
  3. Capacity

The Swarm Creativity Framework (below) is a tool to guide education, economic, and workforce development strategy for competitive regional advantage.

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Taken together, the Council's directives, the Framework, and "Strategic Doing" - a simple process developed in I-Open to move ideas to action quickly (below), enable every community to build a COINs-collaborative innovation network strategy for creative, thriving local economies.

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From the perspective of the Collective Intelligence Genome introduced at the COINs 2009 Opening Keynote by Dr. Thomas W. Malone, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, this outlines the What, Why, and How - the Who, is all of us!

You can learn more about the Center's work at http://cci.mit.edu/index.html

I-Open is a co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference.

COINS2010 Conference | www.KMAfrica.com - Knowledge Management Africa KnowledgeHub

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Please visit KMAfrica KnowledgeHub where the COINs 2010 Conference announcement has been posted.

Colleague Steve Banhegyi guides and develops KMAfrica, a rich resource of contributions from across the globe.

COINs 2010 is proud to connect with the KMAfrica community to share knowledge and build collaborative conversations together to advance creative solutions to global issues.

Featured Workshop COINs 2010 Blog: Basics of Social Network Analysis: Network Analysis 101

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This is an interactive workshop for social network newbies to the field of Social Network Analysis including a brief history, the basic vocabulary, professional associations, software tools, example studies across multiple disciplines, and cutting edge developments and trends.

Instructor: Prof. Ken Riopelle, Wayne State University, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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The COINs 2010 conference, Oct. 7–9, 2010, is presented by I-Open and the COINs Collaborative, an initiative of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Wayne State University College of Engineering's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Collective Intelligence. The collaborative builds open knowledge networks to advance the emerging science of collaboration for research and industry competitive advantage. Hosted by SCAD. For more information about the COINs 2010 conference, visit http://www.coins2010.com