[p2p-research] A possible way to leverage ning, del.icio.us, various wikis, etc

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Sam,


I'm totally in favour of this.

Tell me what you think of this: it would start with Ning, then be
refracted/mentioned in the blog and perhaps a dedicated mailing list?

But how would you do the tracking/reformulation?

I think you should have a link at the very well working "Solutions Exchange"
in India? What they do is: 1) a moderator launches a question asked by a
participant, one at a time only; 2) the whole community takes time
responding; 3) at the end of a given period, the moderator writes up a
summary of what has been found out in the form of some kind of FAQ, for
future usage,

Perhaps this initiative could be co-branded, co-organized with
appropedia.com ?

Michel

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michel,
>
> Working with Marcin (http://openfarmtech.org), and folks like him who are
> engaged in applications, research and development, etc., one thing that I
> can see is that they have a lot of questions that they need help answering.
>
> This got me to thinking that we, the P2P Foundation, have lots of people
> with diverse expertise connected in a network, which is also connected to
> other networks beyond our transparent sphere.
>
> So, I am thinking that we as p2p foundation network could take existing
> resources that we are already using, like ning network communication
> channel, email list(s), blog, wikis, etc etc, and mash them up into a way
> for people to ask questions to the network and find answers. Much like
> http://communitywiki.org/OrganizedInquiry
>
> Inquiry-based collaboration can really be effective, and it is something
> that social media tools accomplish really well.
>
> What I am proposing is that we can use Ning, combined with the blog, as a
> conduit for people like Marcin to ask questions (like "what types of water
> based machine hydraulic systems exist? What is the current state of
> bio-based plastics?" etc, and that we can use an rss aggregation system to
> track the way that people are answering them.
>
> We also would do a little bit of work to educate people to ask these
> questions within this network, but also pass on relevant questions/requests
> to other networks.
>
> The only overhead cost is the willingness of people to share what they
> know, and the willingness of people to openly ask what they need to know
> into the greater network. A lot of times it is the latter cost that is the
> biggest obstacle. People sometimes don't want to ask questions on a wider
> basis, because they don't want to come across as seeming somehow ignorant.
> But, this is probably one of the easiest "appliction" -type of areas that
> p2pfoundation could grow into. Leveraging collective intelligence and
> networks. Not that we don't already do this, but basically I am proposing
> that we could close a few gaps and grease the wheels a bit, using existing
> tools and communication channels.
>
> I'd be willing to put some work into creating a tracking system, if people
> are interested in this. First, it would be nice to know if people are
> interested in this? The idea would be to pick a place or places where people
> ask questions, let them answer those questions in many different places
> (like email lists, del.icio.us, wikis with certain tags or categories on
> pages, etc) and aggregate that in one place.
>
>
>
>
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