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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:

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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: i-open.posterous.com/

COINS 2010 “Lybba - Unleashing swarm creativity to make open-source healthcare a reality”

In his opening keynote, Jesse Dylan, award winning director of the Obama campaign video "Yes we can" and Peter Gloor, MIT Research Scientist, talk together about Lybba - an open source approach to knowledge sharing and caring - is helping give life to the open source healthcare movement.

Lybba's mission is to connect people with the community, information, and resources they need to take care of themselves and one another. Lybba creates online environments, media campaigns, and social experiments that forge meaningful relationships between hospitals and schools, doctors and patients, researchers and policy-makers. The organization takes an ethical and ecological approach to every challenge it faces. It combines media, design, science, and technology to make a difference, free for all, free of commercial interest.

Jesse's ultimate goal is to bring together every patient looking for answers and provide a platform so that every stakeholder in chronic and rare diseases has a voice to create a community where innovation, empowerment, and compassion flourish.

Conversations such as the COINs 2010 Opening Keynote, are examples of sharing knowledge to advance creativity and dialogue widely for global industry competitive advantage.

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Trustees Theater, beautiful restored theater and Savannah College of Art & Design facility, site of COINs 2010 Opening Keynote Conversation.

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Ken Riopelle, Ph.D., Conversation Moderator and Research Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

 

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Jesse Dylan, CEO and Creative Director, Lybba and Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence in conversation with the audience about the future of open source health care resources.

Images by Alice Merkel

 Dylan is a filmmaker and CEO and creative director of FreeForm, a full-service  production company with a focus on corporate social responsibility and social media. In addition, he is a prolific director behind some of the most successful campaigns in commercial television, print and interactive advertising. Dylan has created award-winning commercials for clients, including the Barack Obama administration, Nike, Nintendo, Motorola, American Express, the National Football League and MTV.

I-Open, with Galaxy Advisors, was a co-sponsor of the COINs 2010 Conference.

Building Collaborative Communities

This presentation provides an introduction to building face-to-face and online collaborative communities that generate social capital and transformative initiatives in Open Source Economic Development.

Collaborative communities form from I-Open Civic Forums, a simple but disciplined process to accelerate place based, globally connected innovation and entrepreneurship.

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

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    •    Friendfeed http://friendfeed.com/iopen
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    •    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 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: http://i-open.posterous.com/

New Models for Content Creation: Page2Pub

Guy Paddock, Social Networking Game Team Lead & Page2Pub engineer at the Open Publishing Lab (OPL) @RIT, describes Page2Pub, an innovative publishing tool to aggregate content from the Internet into a portable, print-ready format.

Open Publishing Lab projects like Page2Pub leverage the interactivity of the web to strengthen the connection between people and their ideas – open knowledge networks - to social and economic investment in communities and their regions.

Page2Pub is an Open Source software project that OPL hopes will provide others with as a platform for research into this area of publishing.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/projects/page2pub/about

Learn more about the Open Publishing Lab across these I-Open platforms:

I-Open http://i-open-2.strategy-nets.net
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Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/iopen/sets/72157623351094216/
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

New Models for Content Creation: the Open Publishing Guide

Rachael Gootnick, Project Lead and Designer of Open Publishing Guide, Open Publishing Lab (OPL) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), describes the Open Publishing Guide as an important tool for civic leaders and their communities, organizations, and government to strengthen information sharing in education, economic, and workforce development.

The Open Publishing Guide (OPG) is an aid to people interested in self publishing. OPG is a repository of self publishing information such as: book templates to advice about self-publishing processes, an online coaching process of how to publish, an archive of print on demand services, and publishing resources available in the public domain.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/open-publishing-guide

Learn more about the Open Publishing Lab 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/72157623351094216/
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

The Future of Publishing: New models for Content Creation

With more people making stuff than ever before, how do we free up things being produced and get them quickly into the different publishing forms we have today such as Kindle, e-readers, and others?

Matt Bernius, Co-Director, and the team of researchers at the Open Publishing Lab (OPL), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY address sea changes in the publishing industry with timely questions and innovative solutions.

In this video, Matt describes four successful models designed, developed, tested, and launched by OPL to address industry change catalyzed by deep, pervasive global economic and social shifts.

Innovation News is built on a Druple platform to report news and events from the field or to be used for community news papers. Stories can be submitted from any wireless device, collected, and aggregated via emailed stories, hashtags, wiki pages, etc. with GPS location visualization.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/innovation-news

Open Publishing Guide (OPG) is to be an aid to people interested in self publishing. OPG is a repository of self publishing information such as:  book templates to advice about self-publishing processes, an online coaching process of how to publish, an archive of print on demand services, and  publishing resources available in the public domain.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/open-publishing-guide


Page2Pub aggregates content from the Internet into a portable, print-ready format. Page2Pub is an open source software project that OPL hopes will provide others with a platform for research into this area.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/projects/page2pub/about


Social Networking Game meetu facilitates network building, accelerates idea to project collaborations, and talent and skills sourcing. Meetu leverages print and publishing in an actual event to  carry those social interactions online to various social networking sites.

Link: http://opl.rit.edu/project/meetu

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Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. 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

An Introduction to the Open Publishing Lab @RIT with Matt Bernius, Co-Director

Matt Bernius, is Co-Director & Researcher of the Open Publishing Lab (OPL) at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.

Matt talks about the sea changes happening across the publishing industry and how OPL@RIT is responding by strengthening creativity and innovation by leveraging new Open Source approaches to empower individuals, businesses, and communities.

OPL is itself a new kind of economic model of production and distribution, and explores new ways of displaying identity and group knowledge.

Check back to this page on I-Open for additional updates about innovative practices at the Open Publishing Lab at RIT.

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Livestream http://www.livestream.com/iopen/
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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