By: Mike Brantjes

Mike Brantjes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:53:23 +0000

Although I fully agree that the Development sector would better function with an online collaborative platform, I would suggest to not erect a separate platform. Previously organizations or topics have erected their own communities in a similar fashion, creating silo’s in the process. What is required is a fluid interchange between the worlds of development, academia, cultural institutions, governmental activity, business, sport, North, South.etc. A platform that enables everyone to facilitate their own causes, and participate in others. We have begun this work with Worknets, where we have taken a very different path but with the same aim in mind, creating an open platform (build on Ajax technology) which is the participants-central, but centred around the collaborations themselves. The Worknets. Where the worknets can be ”loaded” with participants and applications as relevant to the cause. Any Cause. But these can also be interconnected. And where not only people, but also organizations can really take part because individuals are actors, but so are organizations. A fact too often overlooked in what has become know as the social web, which has mostly focused on the participation of individuals and their communication and social interaction, and overlooked organizations and interactions like transactions, project management, trade, achieving common goals together.

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By: Mike Brantjes