I-Open Civic Wisdom Library Description

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Midtown Brews Conversation 2008 

Cleveland, Ohio 


“People will say today what they will do tomorrow” - Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

The Civic Wisdom Library is a public archive of interviews and broadcast conversations contributed to I-Open by business leaders.

Knowledge is organized by innovation investment categories and industry topics according to the Innovation Framework - a heuristic model of investment in Open Source Economic Development.

Read why investing in open, guided conversations is important to the sustainability of communities, businesses and regions. View or download the Civic Wisdom Library Description below.

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Integral Futuring: A Process Approach To Knowledge Advance

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The Big Bang

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Bruce LaDuke, Question Scientist, Integral Futurist, and Managing Director of Instant Innovation, LLC in Indianapolis, Indiana talks about Integral Futuring and the three dynamics that contribute to the current state of any society or social division: 

  • Knowledge Advance - The Center is Knowledge Creation,
  • Social Context - The Center is the Balance of Interests and Economy (Includes education, industry, and economic development) and,
  • The Center is Supply and Demand. It is the combination of these three dynamics that creates the national or international social state.

Integral Futuring is a human-based process driven approach to future society. It offers an important alternate paradigm to traditional machine-based artificial intelligence philosophy.

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Bruce LaDuke 12-31-08 Interview

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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: http://i-open.posterous.com/

How Futuring Helps Us To Know What To Do Now

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Double Doors

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Bruce LaDuke, Question Scientist, Integral Futurist, and Managing Director, Instant Innovation, LLC, provides an introduction to the cycle of knowledge creation and it's connection to enterprise development.

This overview addresses how Futuring and Knowledge Advance help us act smarter and see new opportunities. 

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Learn more about Bruce LaDuke's life work, "The Answer is in the Question" at Social Text.

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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: http://i-open.posterous.com/

George Nemeth on Open Conversations

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A Summary Guide to Open Conversations

Guided, open conversations build trust and offer starting points for entrepreneurs and large organizations to identify local creativity for collaboration and capacity building.

How conversations bring value to local economies are summarized below from an interview George Nemeth, Founder and Chief Blogging Officer, Brewed Fresh Daily contributed to The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) January 2008, in Collinwood, Ohio. George is known for his natural talent to engage people in public discussion and dialogue.

 Q: What are Open Conversations? What is the value of Open Conversations? 

  • Open conversations means an intention to be inclusive – not necessarily "open to the public" – but with people who want to participate.
  • Contributors need to adhere to certain behaviors (not a free-for-all – if you choose to become a part of the conversation you need to behave in certain ways) and not intentionally steer the conversation toward your own agenda.
  • Contributors need to use a method of inquiry that is appreciative.
  • There needs to be a shared open mindedness and a sense to be inclusive.
  • The value of openness is that it has to do with being participatory – they are here to engage with us and we are here to engage with them, too.
  • People we have are dynamic and we need to be as energetic.
  • What you give, you will learn, you have more of a deeper understanding (a more complex understanding – as information comes up, questions get asked) this is much more of an integrated approach to learning.
  • A person needs to offer what they know – allowing the conversation to expand to the level of a quantum dialogue – an extended learning that goes beyond just giving explanations, which are fine upto a certain point, but beyond that it is the experiential and on-site aspects that are important for this kind of learning.
  • The other people who are there have interests in common.
  • These are the basic parameters we agree around and this is the value.
  • The intersection between creative industries, technology, and energy appeals to a variety of backgrounds. This is only one perspective. I try to play up the diversity aspect.
  • There is value in urban areas and their inherent diversity.
  • Midtown Brews Open Conversations are a powerful way to engage a community-minded chain of businesses.

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You can learn more about George at GeorgeNemeth.com, connect on LinkedIn, and follow George on Twitter.

A Summary Guide to Open Conversations is available for download at I-Open on Scribd.

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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: http://i-open.posterous.com/