From: Nirmalan Dhas
Type: Forum
Group: Alliance Plenary
Subject: Collaborative Tagging
Date: October 12, 2014
A network based on disagreement will be much stronger than one based on agreement...
N --- On Sat, Oct 11, 2014, Bruce Schuman wrote ---
I think where this is going -- is towards a very simple universal activist interface, designed to support collaboration among all kinds of groups and activists working for a better world.
Basic design to make it work:
- keep it absolutely simple
- weed out all possible controversy and points of disagreement
- make it applicable for every sector and every issue
So, let's say this is a big-picture holistic image of problems/issues in the world -- all interconnected, all critical, all demanding collaborative solutions:
We need a way to get 100,000,000 citizens, or a billion, and thousands of NGOs (non-governmental organizations, activist groups of every kind who see something like this vision, or care passionately about some part of it), all interconnected through a very basic network, in a form that can create a million alliances on every possible interconnected point of concern.
In this holistic/global context, it's about every issue at the same time, at all levels of social organization. Every issue is connected to every other issue, in an interdependent mutually-influencing way. We need to see this, model and map it, and convene a local-point adjudication and balancing of those dimensions at that local point.
Levels of categorization of this process might look like this:
- 12 basic sectors of the "wheel of co-creation", top-down hierarchical taxonomy defined by intergroup consensus
- 15 defined issues of critical international importance
- 12 general areas of concern for any community
- strict hierarchical/scientific taxonomy, rigid categories with bottomless capacity for detail
- organizational/interpersonal correlation, similarities/affinities, points of alliance
- model of neural structure in the human brain
All of this can be extremely fluent, combining the stability of a top-down ("hierarchy") rigid taxonomy with the absolute fluency of bottom-up ("circle") tagging.
This is the essential design for a "universal alliance engine" that can interconnect constructive motivation wherever it arises.
Put simply, this is what we are doing:
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