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Radical collaboration
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To solve the crises we face - especially the pressing issue of climate change - radical collaboration is essential. This means collaboration between organizations, between individuals, across political lines and between for-profit and non-profit organizations.
How do we collaborate?
- Use an open license for your written and creative work. If you develop software, make it open source. If you're a for-profit enterprise, explore ways that you can offer a service on top of the open licensed and open sourced work (e.g. provide support for open source products; consider the Linux for enterprises model; and the idea of using a delayed open license for written and other creative works).
- Use open formats - make your information accessible.
- Consider radical transparency. Share your information and knowledge. Document your practices, what is working for you in sustainability, and share them.
- Learn what others are doing in your field. Maintain a dialog. Avoid reinventing the wheel.
- Use the free software client+server Cmaps to connect all collaborators via bilinked concept maps. See <-> http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?ConceptMaps please clarify
[edit] Motivation for collaboration
While the theoretical motivations are obvious, collaboration in reality is often lacking. What motivations and conditions lead to actual collaboration in the real world?
The "Robbers Cave Experiment"W was a study in conflict and collaboration between groups: "Sherif's study... appeared to show how groups could be reconciled, how peace could flourish. The key was the focus on superordinate goals, those stretching beyond the boundaries of the group itself."[War, Peace and the Role of Power in Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/09/war-peace-and-role-of-power-in-sherifs.php]
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