I look at the posts in this email list and I see few entries and those
mainly being small talk.
Makes me wonder if the effort has been essentially closed. Whether
intentional or not, there are people who believe that sustainability
is impossible and who seek to mainly be the meanest SOBs in a world
they see as basically "dog eat dog" so efforts to squelch attempting
to understand and pursue sustainability are seriously compromised.
My main web site is at http://www.mindsing.org . I describe my social
theory there with an embedded Google presentation that attempts to sum
it up and present detailed information on what the software may entail
to test my social theory at http://www.mindsing.org/CIM2010.html .
I was recently invited to a San Jose, California, Tech Museum
sponsored quasi-wiki forum which has seemingly stopped getting any
serious contributions at http://www.socialtext.net/colaboration/ .
You can choose the "What's New" option to see the most recent posts
and my entry on my social theory is at
http://www.socialtext.net/colaboration/?potential_quick_scaled_organizational_tensegrity
.
Maybe there are some die-hard pursuers of sustainability on this email
list and maybe they would find my efforts of interest.
Am studying the software Clojure right now as that appears quite
appropriate for making a test of my idea.
Best,
Tom
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Hi Pamela and all,
Thanks for the great feedback. Currently Appropedia is working on a few ways to provide what you ask for. The idea would be that Appropedia continues to be a large pool of solutions (especially since there are no panaceas and many situations call for very specialized solutions), but that we would have better ways to navigate the information. Some possibilities include: 1: A practitioner could answer a few questions about their context and be directed to a solution. 2. Experts would pick their favorite solutions and a practitioner could look through just those. 3. Other organizations/sites would remix our content and you would access it through those sites (we are working with a couple of organizations on this right now). Ultimately I would also like to have the ability to see only those pages my friends or a group of experts have rated highly.
Thanks again for your feedback, I hope we can address it better soon.
-Lonny, http://appropedia.org/User:Lonny
(Sent from cell in transit... please excuse English errrrrors)
On Apr 3, 2010 7:36 AM, "Pamela McLean" <pamela...@dadamac.net> wrote:
Ref - Appropedia and Ekopedia are exploding on the content front.
May I offer some feedback ref "use-ability"?
I was originally excited by the idea of Appropedia - I thought it might have useful info for people ad projects that I know in Africa. But I gave up looking. There was too much stuff there and no way I could work out what might be appropriate. I needed an Apporpdeia that was arranged in ways that would help me find what I (or my contacts) needed.
Maybe things have improved and my feedback is out of date - I don't know - I stopped looking.
I didn't want to know so many possible variations - I simply wanted to know which might be relevant, so I needed help with useful stuff to cut down the options. In a database like this I need help to answer the questions in my mind like:
I'm sure there is great stuff in there - but I gave up trying to find it.
- how useful is it really?
- what is relevant on a community level?
- what is relevant on a household level?
- what is useful locally that we could produce locally and sell locally?
- is this relevant where we are? (it's so disheartening to read of great stuff being made avaible "for Africa" only to find it is only for specific countries - and we are not included)
- what does it cost?
- if it's more that we've got is there any way to help pay for it? (loans, grants etc)
- how easy to instal?
- what local skills would we need?
- if we don't have those skills already is there any way around that?
- what's it made of?
- how easy/hard is it to get hold of the initial components?
- how easy/hard is it to maintain
Pamela
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Winners were announced at the CoLABoration 2010 conference for the best new collective intelligence tools. These five winners are semi-finalists in the Program for the Future Global Design Challenge and one of these, HealthMap, was named the winner of the Engelbart Prize.
The winners shown below, chosen by a distinguished panel of judges, are outstanding examples of tools to help people work together better, make better decisions together or solve tougher problems together to create a better world. The final winner(s) of the Program for the Future Challenge will be chosen in a few weeks by staff from The Tech Museum and other participating museums, after the entrants have time to develop "demos" or museum exhibits for their entries. The project that won the Engelbart Award, HealthMap, is a web platform that combines official and informal (e.g. Google News) sources for an up-to-the-minute global map of human and animal diseases. The platform has been recognized as a leading indicator of disease outbreaks such as the H1N1 flu. The Engelbart Prize carries an award of $1000 USD.In addition to the five semi-finalists, other projects deemed worthy of honorable mention by the judges and/or the conference organizers are Charity Connect, The Synergy Engine, Transit Everywhere, Bloomer--Collective Intelligence, Intelligent Web, Fair-Share Spending and Hugging Media. |
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