I-Open Process - Programs

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Midtown Brews 2008

Image: Dennis Coughlin

I-Open programs are foundational components that build networks, collaborative community and transformative initiatives in Open Source Economic Development.

Programs are important gatherings that drive social experiences for knowledge creation.

This civic intelligence informs communications, contextual aspects of community culture.

I-Open process develops systems of locally based entrepreneurs and regional assets for higher levels of global connectivity.

Created by Betsey Merkel, I-Open 2011. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States - The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)


Source Code: Civic Wisdom Knowledge Wheel

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Design Reflection

Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr

The I-Open Knowledge Wheel maps the organization and progressive dissemination of human knowledge in the Civic Space in Open Source Economic Development.

Civic Wisdom interviews (center of map) are contributed to the I-Open community by leaders in government, organizations and business.

The Wheel is an idea inspired by the Free & Open Source (F/OSS) Software industry's progression of code to data to content.

I-Open organizes and publishes civic wisdom (code) to storage (data) to publication (content). Creative multi-media applications can fragment or deconstruct data at any given point in the outward progression of disseminating content. 

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Enlarged view at I-Open on Flickr

The Institute's foundational principle, "we will act in ways that build trust and respect" guides final publishing. Content is published and shared under I-Open's Creative Commons v.3 license for the purpose of informing all aspects of economic development investment.

Learn the wisdom of civic leaders across these I-Open communities:

Facebook I-Open http://tiny.cc/odlg2
Flickr http://tiny.cc/73y6e
Friendfeed http://friendfeed.com/iopen
Livestream http://www.livestream.com/iopen/
Posterous http://i-open.posterous.com/
Scribd http://www.scribd.com/I-Open
Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2
Twitter http://twitter.com/iopen2
Vimeo http://tiny.cc/106p0
You Tube http://tiny.cc/j5rse

Copyright 2011 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Betsey Merkel and The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: i-open.posterous.com/