Civic Wisdom Quote: Don't be a star, be a galaxy

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"Don't be a star, be a galaxy."

- Peter Gloor, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Chief Creative Officer and Founder, Galaxy Advisors
Boston & Switzerland

I-Open Civic Wisdom Quotes are practical points shared by leaders in research and business to advance competitive industry advantage in Open Source Economic Development.

In a connected world driven by innovation and technology, the value of becoming part of a larger web of collaborative networks quickly yields unexpected, unforeseen opportunities.

You can learn more about Peter Gloor's work in swarm creativity, coins-collaborative innovation networks, and coolhunting in this video interview contributed to I-Open research.

You can learn more about I-Open Interview and Conversation Research at I-Open on Scribd. If you would like to contribute an interview about your work, please send us an email at info@i-open.org 

Images by Alice Merkel on Flickr.

Material is Copyright 2010 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and contributed to The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), a not-for-profit educational economic organization.

Building a COINs Strategy for Education, Economic, and Workforce Development

Collaborate: Leading Regional Innovation Clusters - A Report from the Council on Competitiveness, identifies three important components of 21st Century innovation based prosperity:

  1. Conversations 
  2. Collaboration
  3. Capacity

The Swarm Creativity Framework (below) is a tool to guide education, economic, and workforce development strategy for competitive regional advantage.

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Taken together, the Council's directives, the Framework, and "Strategic Doing" - a simple process developed in I-Open to move ideas to action quickly (below), enable every community to build a COINs-collaborative innovation network strategy for creative, thriving local economies.

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From the perspective of the Collective Intelligence Genome introduced at the COINs 2009 Opening Keynote by Dr. Thomas W. Malone, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, this outlines the What, Why, and How - the Who, is all of us!

You can learn more about the Center's work at http://cci.mit.edu/index.html

I-Open is a co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference.

COINs2010: Conversations in Collaboration Savannah, Georgia

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I-Open is a proud co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference Oct 7-9 in Savannah, Georgia, connecting research and industry leaders to advance the emerging science of collaboration.

 Register here.

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.

 Register here.

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

 Register here.

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 to become more creative! 

 Register here.

 

Super Science Initiative: New Frontiers for Collaboration

Check out this website I found at innovation.gov.au

Australia and Ireland are investing in innovation and economic development based in universities focused on space and astronomy, marine and climate, and future industries.

These two forward thinking countries understand the direct connection between innovation, education, and economic development.

Beyond this, every country and region investing funds in innovation will need to invest as well in new habits of communication and collaboration.

One approach - COINs-collaborative innovation networks - is driven by swarm creativity and accelerates the formation of entrepreneurial cultures.

You can learn more about swarm creativity and COINs in this video interview with MIT research scientist, Peter Gloor. Additional resources are available here.

Get started by registering for the COINs2010 Conference and connect to this knowledge community exploring the emerging science of collaboration.

 

What's the value of one white paper?

Yesterday I received an unexpected e-mail greeting from a government IT leader based in Australia. While researching the Internet to lead a group of colleagues in a strategic project planning initiative, he came across the attached COINs 2009 conference presentation and offered these comments:

In "COINS: An economic development tool for education, economic and workforce development in Open Source Economic Development" the concepts are beautiful; if my workplace engaged in just 20% of them we would double communications engagement subsequently boosting productivity. Thank you for your paper Betsey, I am very pleased you wrote it."

Stories like these attest to why sharing on the web is a good idea. You can never know who or when the information you've shared will be useful. In networks, shared information has reciprocal value for anyone with initiative.

Serendipitous connections often begin with an element of collaborative leadership. For example, had it not been suggested to me to consider submitting a paper in 2009, I'm not sure I would have.

COINs 2010 conference brings a second year of sharing insights and innovations into the workings of creativity and collaboration. I hope you will join us for new conversations in Savannah and on the web - and definitely consider submitting a paper in 2011! 

Who knows what opportunity will bump into you?

- Betsey Merkel, I-Open

Learn more about COINs 2010 Conference here.

Designers Accord 2009: An Important Conversation Exploring the Future of Design in Open Systems

Note to readers:  I-Open mistakenly posted the Designers Accord 2009 document as a shareable piece of information. Apologies to our Design colleagues! The document has been removed.

We've asked the authors to supply us with a shareable version we can post here. The Accord unquestionably offers valuable insights for entrepreneurs working in Open Source Economic Development.
You're encouraged to continue to follow along and learn about the related efforts in the design industry at the October Design Ethos conference hosted at SCAD. Thanks for your patience. - Betsey Merkel, I-Open.

Back to the original post:

I-Open is co-sponsor of the COINs2010 conference Oct 7-9 hosted at SCAD in Savannah, GA. The conference will collaborate with the concurrent Design Ethos Conference also hosted at SCAD during the same time frame. SCAD Professors Scott Bolyston, Graphic Design, and Christine Miller, Design Management - hosts of each conference - are developing ways for the two gatherings to intersect, learn, and explore collaboration opportunities.

The Designers Accord document posted here offers an important snapshot of the global educational design community's desire to pursue discovery of the role of design at the intersections of social, economic, environment, and cultural issues today.

Links to learn more:

More about this important 2009 conversation and this resulting report:

The Designers Accord Final Comments document was submitted as a report to the editorial committee of the 2009 Designers Accord Global Summit 2009.

On October 23 and 24, 2009, the Designers Accord convened 100 individuals from some of the world’s most distinguished academic and professional institutions, for two days of highly participatory discussion, planning, and action around the topic of design education and sustainability.

This group of thought-leaders, design educators, and experts discussed, challenged, and conceived of a new path for undergraduate and graduate design programs to integrate sustainability. We tackled topics ranging from creating curricula and writing grants, to communicating to trustees and motivating students. These topics were culled from pre-Summit meetings and brainstorm sessions.

The format of the Summit was structured to enable this group to create a collective point of view about best practices and methods for integrating sustainability into design programs all over the world. We are currently synthesizing the outputs from the Summit. We plan to publish the output online and in printed form. The medium and format will be determined by the content.

You can learn more at this link:
http://www.designersaccord.org/initiatives/summit/

Elsevier: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences - 2009 COINs Proceedings

 The COINs2009 Proceedings are available online at:

Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 6387-6626 (2010)


The 1st Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference - COINs2009
Edited by Kenneth Riopelle, Peter Gloor, Christine Miller and Julia Gluesing

 The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-OPEN) publication is # 15 entitled:

COINS: An economic development tool for education, economic and workforce development in Open Source Economic Development

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 / I-Open paper published to KMAfrica - Knowledge Management Africa KnowledgeHub

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Colleague Steve Banhegyi, KMAfrica Knowledge Hub, posted the recent I-Open paper, "COINS: Open Source Economic Development for Education, Economic and Workforce Development" as a Group Discussion Topic for Emerging Technologies on KMAfrica.

"KnowledgeHub is a community platform for knowledge creators in African colleges and universities to role-model knowledge sharing using social media. There is know-how that helps expand the role of libraries in communities and KM professionals can keep current with a network of consultants and academics. Knowledge entrepreneurs will find useful know-how and ideas. It is by growing connections that communities emerge that make innovation and breakthrough possible."

Please explore the space and participate in the discussion, add your insights, and build your knowledge networks!

Posted by Betsey Merkel