COINS 2009 - a gathering about the emerging Science of Collaboration

One of our stops this past summer was to visit Peter Gloor, Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence in Boston. Peter and I put together this video to summarize our conversation. (You can learn more about Peter's work in Swarm Creativity here at I-Open.)

We talked about the upcoming inaugural COINS 2009 conference next month Oct 8 - 11, 2009. The conference is hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) and co-sponsored with MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence and Wayne State University's School of Engineering.

Peter explained the conference focus is to broaden our understanding of the value creativity and collaboration brings to innovation. The gathering will be a mix of artists, business leaders, engineers, computer science, and mathematics people - researchers and practitioners - sharing insights and innovations in the emerging field of the Science of Collaboration. Just the kind of cross disciplinary thinking and idea exchange that really will help us solve the big problems of the world!

The program will have a strong emphasis on learning more about network and trend analysis, the deep research metrics now available to all civic, business, government, and academic leaders to inform economic investment.

I’ll be contributing a thought paper about I-Open’s work in the Civic Space, what we learn with all of you, and what that means for Colleges, Universities and Libraries. I’ll be posting more about the paper for your comments as well as during my time in Savannah.

(Formerly as the Center for Regional Economic Issues at Case Western Reserve University, I-Open was the first organization in Northeast Ohio to collaborate with Valdis Krebs, social network software and analysis guru of Orgnet.com, and map the region's investment in economic development. We continue "close ties" with Valdis to inform our own work in Open Source Economic Development, mapping and learning with our partners in education, economic, and workforce development.)

If you can attend be sure to check out the Cool Hunting Academy. I hope you can join us to enjoy the cool, collaborative culture of SCAD in the heart of Savannah!

Created and posted by Betsey Merkel.