COINs2010 Call for Papers

I-OPEN is a sponsor of the Collaborative Innovation Networks COINs2010 Conference, October 7-9, 2010 in Savannah, Georgia. The conference is presented in collaboration by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Wayne State University School of Engineering, and MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence.

The COINs community is a network of research and industry leaders seeking the best practices and tools they can find to understand innovation in the emerging Science of Collaboration.

If you are a research or industry leader, consider submitting a paper or thought paper about your insights and perspectives to elevate everyone's understanding of how to collaborate for competitive innovation advantage.

Plan to participate with us October 7-9 in Savannah to share and connect to new opportunities.

For more information, stop by for a visit and sign in to the COINs2010 community at http://www.coins2010.com

Connect to COINs2010:
Facebook: Collaborative-Innovation-Networks-COINS2010-Conference
Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/SwarmCreativity
Twitter: http://twitter.com/coins_2010
Website: http://www.coins2010.com

COINs University Partners:
http://cci.mit.edu/index.html
http://www.scad.edu/
http://wayne.edu/

COINs2010 Sponsors:
COINs University Partners
Galaxy Advisors http://www.galaxyadvisors.com/
I-OPEN http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net

Background Information:
http://www.swarmcreativity.net/
http://www.ickn.org/
http://wiki.soberit.hut.fi/virtualbrownbag/tiki-index.php?page=homepage
http://www.galaxyadvisors.com/

 

COINs 2009: Reflections on the first-ever conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks - Core77

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A really excellent article by Dustin Larimer about the October COINs conference at the Savannah College of Art & Design. Including perspectives from Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT; designer Christian Madsbjerg of Red Associates; Jon Campbell and Beth Johnson from Continuum; and SCAD Industrial Design student Austin Brown. Swarm Creativity and the emerging Science of Collaboration are fundmental to strengthening creativity and collaboration in open networked systems.

"We are a collaborative species. No single perspective could possibly cover every aspect of an issue, but together through the collage of our collective experience we wage war on the challenges of our reality. This is collective intelligence, an emergent characteristic of life that we see in many other social species like honeybees, ants, and migratory birds. At every level of complexity an individual's best efforts could never compare to the magnitude of the seemingly intelligent behavior of the swarm."

You can read the article here on core 77 -- design magazine and resource.

Posted by Betsey Merkel

 

IOpen2's Channel - Stop By and See Us!

Just a reminder that in the future we'll be posting regular I-Open community stories to our You Tube channel, "I-Open2", where you'll be able to learn more about some of the things you, and others, are interested in. 

If you haven't seen this story before, take a couple of minutes to enjoy the experiences of people coming together to share information about their work relating to the emerging Science of Collaboration at the October COINs 2009 conference hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD).

You can learn more about the COINs community focused on strengthening the practices of creativity, collaboration, and communication - essential behaviors and tools in Open Source Economic Development - on the Swarm Creativity Blog.

You may also be interested to visit and sign in to the global Swarm Creativity community - and perhaps sign up to participate in the next Virtual Brown Bag meeting!

Created and posted by Betsey Merkel.

COINS 2009 Conference: the Emerging Science of Collaboration - Update 10/7/09

The COINS 2009 conference hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) is the first time people from many different places and disciplines have come together to share information and research about their work in collaboration. I'm looking forward to meeting a whole community of people interested in sharing insights and innovations in the emerging Science of Collaboration.The conference is a gathering (a swarm!) of leaders from research, business, and creativity.

The program (opens tomorrow evening) includes training in Cool Hunting - the science of finding and tracking trends - and many presentions covering the diverse applications of collaboration and collective intelligence in creativity, design, and in health care, knowledge management, and business innovation.

Explore the tabs on the beautiful COINS 2009 web space (thanks SCAD!!)

Enjoy the short video above with Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT, who talks about the COINS 2009 conference and the value collaborative innovation networks offer to creativity and collaboration in business, and for anyone building enterprise.

You can start to learn more about collaborative innovation networks (COINS) in the delightful book, "Swarm Creativity - competitive advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks"  by Peter Gloor.

Created and posted by Betsey Merkel.