Collaborative By Design » Flickr http://www.collaborative-by-design.com Increasing collaborative capacity in communities and organizations through intentionally designed workplace environments, multi-stakeholder conversations, organizational systems and individual and team training. Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:34:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Internet Structures for Collaborative Learning http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/09/internet-structures-for-collaborative-learning/ http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/09/internet-structures-for-collaborative-learning/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:16:00 +0000 cheri http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/?p=93 When we design so that collaboration is possible and probable, we create opportunities for collaboration in unlikely places with unlikely partners. Technology and the internet are providing substantial opportunities for tagged data and information to be brought forward in ways that innovative visions and new knowledge may  emerge. Information shared freely on the internet, and when tagged, allows for the merging nd meshing of billions of pieces of data in a matter of instants! (More than most of us can even imagine trying to crunch.) For example, Flickr does something called collaborative tagging, which allows everyone’s photos to be accessed (article).

A key factor is trust and faith. As a group, millennials don’t think twice about making their lives transparent and available over the internet, but for many older adults such an option generates big-time fear. It seems that older generations have always admonished the younger generations for their lack of understanding about what they should be afraid of. Younger generations, on the other hand, have always acted without fear or limitations around one thing or another. It is the youthful willingness to act in the face of fear, however, that has always pushed the edge of what is possible.

What if we looked for the wisdom in this particular situation. Without throwing caution to the wind, what if we entertained sharing more and more data and information openly. What might be possible if all information and knowledge was accessible and able to be categorized and re-categorized in a heart beat? What new discoveries might emerge? What solutions to global issues might be innovated? What new opportunities for abundance around the world might surface? What world view would we have to hold in order to make this safe?

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