Imagine lush vegetation alternating with well-kept clearings that have benches, shades, and a web of garden paths connecting them all. The paths are well-indexed and lead to knowledge domains of interest to the visitors, domains that can be navigated by multiple methods to match their learning styles. Well that's the idea, and we are clearly not there yet, in fact, we are just putting the first seeds in the ground.
"Resource garden" is a metaphor to introduce a growing collection of knowledge resources that we will add every week. It is also a meme pointing to the not-so-distant future when the technology of 3D virtual worlds, such as Second Life, will provide a platform for complex knowledge ecosystems.
We have carefully selected all the "plants" in this garden, based on how relevant they are to one or more of the fields of practice that we are engaged in.
Connecting Our Conversations for Becoming Wiser Together
George Pór
Experience of intergenerational conversations led the author to pioneer the connection between local and global conversations. Published in Kosmos Journal Summer/Spring 2008.
Liberating the Innovation Value of the Communities of Practice
George Pór
This book chapter introduces a “CI Innovation Architecture” framework based on many years of the author's research and consulting work with communities of practice. It was published in "Knowledge Economics: Principles, Practices and Policies" its materials are drawn from the executive seminars about the same subject organized by the author at INSEAD and London School of Economics.
Designing for the Emergence of a Global-scale Collective Intelligence
George Pór
Calling for a large-scale research collaboration to explore the potential of globally distributed intelligence for solving world problems and closing the gap between the human condition and human potential.
Paper presented at the First Global Brain Workshop.
