Howard Rheingold's blog

Maptagging the Cooperation Landscape, an exercise in collective visual intelligence.

By Howard Rheingold, 6 years 1 week ago.

I invite our readers to help apply your collective wisdom to a project I've been working on for a long time, first by myself, then with Institute for the Future, and now with the Cooperation Commons. Help me put together two separate components that a number of people (Andrea Saveri and Kathi Vian foremost among them) have collaborated to create.

Los Alamos Lab: Collective Decision-Making Site

By Howard Rheingold, 6 years 1 week ago.

Daniel Steinbock's ever-interesting blog, mind mob, points to the site his colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created for all things related to collective decision-making:

Let's Reclaim The Commons

By Howard Rheingold, 6 years 1 week ago.

Succinct, complete, and simply stated, Let's Reclaim The Commons covers all the commons where better management is called for, and explains why -- knowledge, environment, health, public spaces, Internet.

Jimbo (Wikipedia) Wales calls for Wiki Politics

By Howard Rheingold, 6 years 1 week ago.

Jamie Boyle on the cognitive bias against open systems

By Howard Rheingold, 6 years 1 week ago.

(via boingboing)

Jamie Boyle, co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, is always worth paying attention to (c.f., The Second Enclosure Movement). Now

International Cooperative Alliance: Principles for Coops

By Howard Rheingold, 6 years 1 week ago.

* Presentation on 10 years review of principles (pdf)

Statement on the Co-operative Identity

Definition
A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.

Ideagoras -- cooperation markets for innovation in business

By Howard Rheingold, 6 years 1 week ago.

Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams have been doing significant work in applying cooperation theory to business practice. Their article "Realizing The Power Of Innovation Webs:Traditional enterprises give way to new models where innovation is collaborative, distributed, and open" introduces the notion of "Ideagoras" and other important ideas, based on their own extensive research: