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May 31, 2005

What can evolutionary science teach us about designing co-operative on-line communities?

David Bollier offers a very interesting overview perspective of a workshop co-sponsored by the Berkman Centre and the Gruter Institute

The workshop, involving lawyers, biologists, social scientists, technologists and policy experts, focussed on what evolutionary science and "commons scholarship" can teach us about the social architecture of co-operative on-line communities ('on-line commons').

Issues such as:

• Lessons from how people sharing real life "common resources"
• The importance and practicalities of "reputation systems" in reducing the risk of dealing we people we don't physically meet
• How we can learn from natural immune systems in the ways we can protect the online community against 'rogue outsiders'
• The experience of Open Source Software (OSS) as a victory of ST ("Social Technology") over IT and the innovative energy released through common ownership approaches
  

These are equally important topics for those of us trying to develop a more biological and evolutionary view of organisations, teams and networks

To read David’s article and visit his blog

Posted by Ken Thompson on May 31, 2005 at 12:00 AM in Events | Permalink
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