I-Open Process - Programs

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Midtown Brews 2008

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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)


From David Wilcox, social reporter and thought leader in "civil society"

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Building Big Society giving and doing by making it easier to listen

 

Update and summary: Lord Nat Wei, one of the authors of the Big Society idea and Network founder, will no longer blog about the vision. He will be working as unpaid advisor to Government. Meanwhile, many people are talking about Big Society, but finding it difficult to get to the core idea and connect with each other. The network could make a virtue of listening, and encouraging many voices.

There’s been lots of discussion around Big Society over the past couple of weeks, as you can see from my bookmarks, the Twitter stream, and this smart way of displaying content generated in many different places.

Using paper.li you can agree a hashtag (keyword with # before it) then ask people to post links (URLs) of blog items or other content in a tweet containing the hashtag. Set up paper.li to search for the tag, and it displays both the tweets and the original articles – creating your own news page refreshed daily (thanks @evangineer). (read more...)

David Wilcox has offered considerable thought leadership in understanding modern civil society and the idea of civic engagement.

Social Reporter extends the discussion between face-to-face and online engagement around the powerful issues affecting neighborhoods today.

David's earlier blog, Designing for Civil Society, began exploring and reflecting on the intersections and possibilities of social media, engagement, and collaboration in August 2007.