A Civic Perspective: Health Care and Justice

Gwen Fischer, Prof. Emeritus, Hiram College, Single-Payer Action Networks (SPAN) of Ohio and Debbie Silverstein, Single-Payer Action Networks (SPAN) of Ohio talk about the deteriorating state of health care access for U.S. citizens over the last generation. Gwen and Debbie share health care advocacy and personal perspectives in preparation for the March 2009 Midtown Brews civic forum, “The New Landscape of Health Care Reform,” in Cleveland, Ohio. (You can learn more about I-Open civic conversations at Midtown Brews)

Gwen and Debbie’s conversation is not unique; it is one of a million conversations going on now that identify new opportunities for whole system change. Conversations like these illuminate how to improve patient and family care, information access and service delivery, and large scale implementation of preventative medicine, disease evaluation and diagnosis.

Our opportunity is to connect civic, research and industry leaders to advance innovations targeted to health care delivery and preventative medicine for US citizens and the world.

At the October COINs conference, filmmaker Jesse Dylan will explore questions and solutions in his conference keynote address and talk about Lybba, the open source health care resource he founded.

The COINs 2010 conference brings leaders like Jesse in health care with others in design, technology, government, education, and transportation to share knowledge. It is in such a culture of openness, transparency, and compassion that global transformational advances will be discovered.

Join us to be part of the experience. Begin by signing in to become a member of the COINs 2010 Friendship Map. Register for Savannah, Georgia conference workshops so you can learn about discoveries in the emerging science of collaboration for competitive advantage in your work. Register here.

For those unable to join us face-to-face, conference sessions will be streamed on the COINs Conference Channel with the generous support of our broadcast partner, Livestream. Archive sessions will be available immediately following the live presentations. We'll be posting broadcast updates here for you soon.

Whether face-to-face or online, plan to connect with us Thu Oct 7th, Fri 8th, and Sat 9th, 2010 and share your insights for transformation in this brave new world.

Connect to the COINs 2010 Conference community: 

  • Conference hashtag #COINS2010


The COINs 2010 conference, Oct. 7–9, 2010 is presented in collaboration by I-Open and the COINs Collaborative, an initiative of the Savannah College of Art and Design, Wayne State University College of Engineering, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Collective Intelligence. The collaborative builds open knowledge networks to advance the emerging science of collaboration for research and industry competitive advantage. For more information and to register for the COINs 2010 conference, visit www.coins2010.com

COINs2010: Conversations in Collaboration









 


  

 

The 2nd Annual International COINs2010 Conference  is coming to Savannah, Ga, USA  | October 7-9

REGISTER ONLINE at COINs2010.com

Registration rate is $180 (US Dollars) and includes pre-conference full day Coolhunting Workshop and Condor 3 month-trial.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Jesse Dylan, CEO and Creative Director, Freeform

Sandy Pentland, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Richard Buchanan, Professor, Case Western Reserve University


REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS

Networking 101 | Collaborative Change | Bodystorming | Coolfarming | Service Design | Virtual Global Teaming

 

BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS

Special Conference Rates are available through the COINs2010 Conference Website.

 

This is a DESIGN ETHOS Intersection Event

 

 

 

Join us for COINs 2010 Oct 7-9 in Savannah, Georgia!

I-Open is a proud co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference, connecting research and industry leaders to advance the emerging science of collaboration.

Keynote speakers and paper presentations will be streamed live featuring cutting edge research in science, design, and technology with an emphasis on creativity, government, health care, energy, education, government, and transportation.

Workshops focus on practices in collaboration, open platforms, and team building - all immediately applicable skills for leaders in education, economic, and workforce development.

Register for

  • social network practice, projects, and tool proficiency
  • collaboration skills
  • service design thinking
  • collective action and social change
  • collaborative global teaming
  • strengthening habits of idea creation

In addition, COINs 2010 Conference is cross collaborating with the Design Ethos Conference (program) resulting in a serendipitous gathering of global minds in filmmaking, technology, design, and sustainability.

Check in now to the COINs 2010 Conference site - an online destination designed by SCAD designer, Amit Bapat - to explore and connect your social networks into a deeper, wider, global COINs2010.

Get started and become more creative at COINs 2010!

Conference information and online registration is here.

Begin reading COINs 2010 Abstracts at Swarm Creativity on Scribd.

Learn more about Design Engineer, Amit Bapat's BioSand Filter Project, here.

 


Investing in Swarm Creativity

The COINs 2010 conference, Oct 7-9, 2010 hosted at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA, shares the insights and innovations of research and industry leaders in the Science of Collaboration.

Join us! Here are your next steps:

  • Register for the conference - we'd love to connect with you!
  • Submit a Research or Industry Thought Paper by Aug 12 less than 300 words- this is a neat opportunity to hone your idea and improve!
  • Sign up for the Coolhunting Academy free for conference registrants and includes a complimentary 3-month trial of Cool Trends 2.0 - (!)
  • Check it all out at: http://www.coins2010.com

More about Swarm Creativity and the Science of Collaboration:

Swarm Creativity powers the COINs 2010 community and with it the Science of Collaboration. Conference participants present reports focused on creativity, communication, and collaboration from many different disciplines and industries.

The swarm creativity map, above, is an ecosystem for entrepreneurs, businesses, organizations, and governments to cultivate a culture that is creative, cool, and fun!

Today, civic leaders need to work on many different projects simultaneously and at many different levels to optimize initiatives in open, connected global markets. The swarm creativity map offers a heuristic model for thinking across categories of investment in balanced systems. And, it's transferable and extensible.

Maps act as filters, provide a sense of logistics, and encourage more than one area of attention to be held at once. With that we can begin to think in terms of the value of network connectivity and systemic relationships.

The map identifies how swarm creativity as a discipline can be strengthened by investments in new practices and tools.

One tool, Cool Trends 2.0, is trend finding software developed by http://www.GalaxyAdvisors.com. It is designed to provide investment metrics for web 3.0, the semantic web. By integrating network mapping tools in enterprise initiatives, we can begin to get a clearer picture of innovation in networks, strengthen social behaviors that cultivate collaboration, and drive competitive network productivity.

Attention to new practices, such as meritocracy - an element of swarm creativity - establish good habits of sharing that nurture trusted relationships and cultivate collaborative environments.

Frameworks like this one work well in complexity. They offer a starting point for entrepreneurs to make important cognitive shifts required to think in terms of networks and areas of investment. With this, work becomes efficient and effective.

You can learn more in the book, "Swarm Creativity" by Professor Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Be sure to follow the http://swarmcreativity.blogspot.com/ ">Swarm Creativity blog too.

The Swarm Creativity map was created by Betsey Merkel, I-Open.

Introduction to Open Source Economic Development, Ed Morrison, Co-Founder I-Open and Policy Analyst, Purdue University

Ed Morrison prepared this presentation for the April 2008 I-Open Leadership Retreat hosted at the beautiful Punderson State Park in Newberry, Ohio.

The presentation offers a succinct outline of the concepts and knowledge areas important to civic leaders building networks and collaborations in communities and regions.

The material draws deeply from Ed's life work as a brilliant economic development strategist. 

From our time working together at Case Western Reserve University's Center for Regional Economic Development (REI) from 2003 to 2005, we added process extensions and additional refinements.

These contiguous developments included the Tuesdays@REI Civic Forum process for civic entrepreneurs (designed by Betsey Merkel) and the Strategic Doing process (Ed Morrison). Both were refined out of the REI work building civic networks and strengthening entrepreneurial initiatives in Northeast Ohio.

Regional practitioner thought leaders - and there were many - offered strong influences in the areas of network mapping, Open Space Technologies, Appreciative Inquiry, social technologies, design, knowledge management, and visualization during our tenure.

These are typical of the practices and tools entrepreneurs and leaders of organizations, business, academia, and government need to be proficient in today to build competitive networks and collaborations for global economies.

It is this re-tooling of capacities that will strengthen entrepreneurial innovation in such important industries as alternate energies, manufacturing, health care, land use, creative digital media, technology, and water efficiency in Open Source Economic Development.

About I-OPEN

I-Open is the architect of a new type of civic infrastructure.

This infrastructure connects entrepreneurs and their ideas to resources and capabilities in established organizations and institutions.

Learn more across these I-Open platforms:
I-Open http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net
Facebook I-Open http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35942064712&ref=ts
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/iopen/sets/
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://www.vimeo.com/user1999383
You Tube http://www.youtube.com/user/IOpen2

Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel http://www.betseymerkel.extendr.com/ and I-Open http://i-open.org/. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA

Branding of non profit organizations, a case study of collaborative innovation and commercialization in the U.S.A. renewable energy industry

Note from author Jimmie Flock on Facebook:

"This work is the first installment in my journey into collaborative networks. I took a known problem, market demand for 'green' energy and the 'limited options in supply' and looked at the tools, innovation communities and branding to determine if these would be viable methods to address the market gap problem. The measurement focused on users of energy, their perception dimensions of a would be brand for this product concept."

..."I expect the next installment to be more focused specifically on constructing the brand elements (market segmentation specifics) for what would be a collaborative innovation organization, focused on service in the energy alternatives sector. The next step will be more focused on enterprising, applying the concepts laid out in the thesis."

Jim's clarification helps people understand how they could connect to the interests outlined in the paper, how to contribute, and possible new collaborative opportunities to scale mutual interests. If you're interested, you can connect with Jim on Facebook or LinkedIn.