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SamRose

Self educated futurist, researcher, theorist, and conceptualizer.

I am interested in music, art, human evolution, science, complexity theory, media ecology, foresight and futures studies, and technology. I am also interested improving and enriching the existence humans through spreading knowledge and helping to build common places where we can store, share and improve what we know as a species, and how we use it.

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Sam Rose Social Synergy

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Sam's Collective Problem Solving NoteBook

I am going to use this space to park items that I plan on working into this wiki somehow later

Thinkcycle was a relatively early example of CollectiveProblemSolving using web-enabled tools. The interface was a pre-categorized message board. It was a neat experiment, although it looks like it has been largely abandoned now.

Improving existing platform examples

Here is a CollectiveProblemSolving challenge scenario. If we were approached by ThinkCycle? to re-design, and re-invograte their site, what would we do? How would we re-attract people back to the site to start using it on a regular basis? What new technologies would we include (blogs? wiki? rss? tagging? podcasting? video tools? map or GIS tools? data collection? prediction markets? social networking technologies like FOAF or XFN? other mocroformats? reputation systems? value metrics? what else?)? How would we help people learn to effectively use whatever tools we provide? Would ThinkCycle? be more useful if the site were sectioned off into local areas all over the world? Or, alternatively, if the users defined the topics?

Why do some collective problem solving sites succeed?

Omidyarnet is arguably another CollectiveProblemSolving space, but with a different and broader/user defined focus. Omidyarnet is very active, and I think that there are many reasons why. But I want to focus on one reason: I think that Omidyarnet was able to attract a critical mass of people that cascaded into a large sustained set of communities because Omidyarnet was connected to money and resources. Omidyarnet is now about much more than just access to money and resources for your project. It is now a huge and open knowledge base that covers many topics related to CollectiveProblemSolving. But, I think that one of the things that keeps the community active and engaged is the knowledge that money and resources are available to turn their best ideas into reality. CollectiveProblemSolving sytems should definitely connect themselves with the resources that will allow their solutions to come to real fruition. This should be built in to the CollectiveProblemSolving application. Whether resources come from peer funding, or private or public sources, or wether they take the form of time or alternative currencies, or other tangible and intangible value, they need to be there and available when needed.

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I would like to participate here by collaborating with theory building, and giving feedback about my own real world applications. – SamRose

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