Committing to distribute the methods of Digital Social Innovation!
the distribution starts with PUBLICATION:
Firstly, recorded open informations/methods here in order to extract greater value from organizational intelligence :
– this needs spaces where Community of Practice (COP) can work:
Private Space
- participants must be community members
- activities defined by and for members
Privileged Space
- accessible by a subset of members
- under conditions and terms defined by the community
Public Space
- content available to all, potentially activities open to the public
– COP technology overall are 3 distinct capabilities:
Security and the integrity of Membership
The security of the software/tools must easily and reliably allow the assignment and identification of group members!
Confidence in the process of working virtual rests on feeling that everyone knowes who does and does not have access to a group’s deliberations!
An actively managed community will generate data/information/knowledge that is easily subject to multiple applications!
Thus there is a benefit to being able to offer the open access to some resources with little technological effort!
Self-governance and community management
“Communities need to be able to self-govern; Virtual COP technology should give them the power to:”
1_ assign leadership roles such as editor, facilitator, moderator, community manager
2_ create communities and sub-communities
3_ control member privileges to read, write, delete, edit, post, etc..
4_ add and delete members and provide access to guests
5_ organise and reorganise content, including attributing one resource to several communities
6_ create contextual ontologies
7_ ease use of the applications for non-technologists: policy and program professionals
Robust site search
“The technology should allow knowledge object diversity:”
_ not require burdensome registration/keyword tasks to enable search
_ support multimedia knowledge objects in any variety of combinations
_ enable knowledge objects to be in many places at the same time without having to put them in each place manually
_ provide means to both “push” information out to the community via email groups, announcements, or similar; and for members to “pull” information in via “subscription”
“Virtual COPs produce results…”
OPEN view of MAIN DIRECTORIES for Contribution
…because they are the optimal structure for a world characterised by a networked, knowledge-driven economy and populated by microworkers:
- distributed individuals or communities who group, regroup and repurpose as the context demands
- they are organised for learning: like the best learning environments, they feature diverse content and have many points of entry
- they are interactive, democratic, contextualised and self-paced
- they are permit working on one’s own or in groups of infinite combinations
- || all of them can be realised without requiring the worker to move from the comfort of their own best thinking space
…Community facilitation is a skilled task, included:
1-Community MODERATION
- legitimate authority to push and prod the community to set its priorities and conduct its work
2-Community FACILITATION
- supports the Moderator and the community’s agenda by assuring that all of the technical and support functions are in order
Fast Track motivational techniques, included:
1-establishment of relationships with local employers to create a tight link between training and better employment opportunities
2-Workforce Investment Boards
3-Content Standards for instructional work
a-literacy as empowerment
b-practical skills for workplace advancement
ab: General Equivalency Diploma (where the peer to peer nature of the productive community [or COP] helps the managers/members to see themselves as fellow program builders and adapters – rather than as recipients of a fixed model)
Converts information into actionable knowledge by the work of virtual community:
Analysis and Codification -views of data:
- tone and texture of activity
- summary of activity
- create opportunity for any member to challenge the “findings” and verify their veracity
- periodic online surveys to ascertain if and how community members benefited from their participation
Knowledge creation:
- support for initial engagement and facilitation of work in the community
- organising a work plan
- implementing the work plan
- organising knowledge objects
Harnessing Knowledge for action:
- managing the information that emerges as the community works and capitalising on it to help the community achieve its goals
Capturing sustainable Knowledge:
- resources, records, summaries of discussions, process descriptions and the like all accumulate in the course of a virtual community doing its work
- knowledge for:
- the community
- the organization
- the field
Main concepts related to:
_ social innovation
_ collaboration networks
_ social incubators
Constituent elements of collaboration networks for social innovation in social incubators are:
1- partnerships
2- collaboration
commitment and trust , mutual help
3- self-management
shared leadership , joint decision making , shared processes
4- empowerment
recognition and construction of identity
5- resources
financial , materia and human
6- learning
lectures and sharing of experiences
7- sustainability
economic , social , environmental
