Taxonomy for cooperation technologies
Howard Rheingold and a few of his colleagues created a report and a visual map (here) on technologies of cooperation for the Institute for the Future (announced here on the feature).
They categorize the emerging cooperation-amplifying technologies into 8 categories. I really like some of their categorizations – such as “knowledge collectives” to talk about social bookmarking sites, or “social accounting” for sites like Epinions.
The report concludes with 7 guidelines:
- Shift focus from designing systems to providing platforms
- Engage the community in designing rules to match their culture,
objectives, and tools; encourage peer contracts in place of coercive
sanctions by distant authority when possible - Learn how to recognize untapped or invisible resources
- Identify key thresholds for achieving “phase shifts” in behavior
or performance - Track and foster diverse and emergent feedback loops
- Look for ways to convert present knowledge into deep memory
- Support participatory identity
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