Mission
Be a catalyst in the articulation and accumulation of systematized content commons and their provision, via web-based services with universal multi-channel communications reach [1], to multi-stakeholder frontline [7] development initiatives, in order to substantially improve frontline demand drive, capacity and access to information, while reducing absorptive burden.
Value Vision: benefits in a vibrant and sustainable society
We can achieve substantial social savings [2] and benefits in the knowledge work and information exchanges of sustainable development initiatives [3].
In the ICT-reliant global society, an actor's thriving potential depends on its enterprise (architecture) maturity [4].
The lack of absorptive capacity is one of the main obstacles to technology transfer[5] and cumulative development outcomes.
The efficient and effective addressing of change, be it for commercial, non-profit or public-sector actors, must leverage a multi-level perspective [6] in:
- continuous and collaborative planning, monitoring and evaluation;
- cross-actor evidence-driven diagnosis; and
- polycentric, policy-aligned and participatory intervention design and implementation.
the wikiworx.info content components
Here a table with content commons service components. Their construction proceeds as described under call for joint action.
Tutorial support, motivating and explaining the use of these content commons is provided at www.atria.us.
Joint action includes, but is not restricted to, commercial engagements.
| Service/component url |
Topic |
Further details (this site) |
| Convention on Knowledge Commons |
Equitable governance of content commons and knowledge claims |
Global Agreement |
| under construction |
Change capability that is enabled by systematized content commons, structured by a multi-level enterprise architecture |
Collective Regulative Bundle |
| Entity Dictionary Indicator Dictionary Constraint Dictionary Actant Dictionary Interaction Dictionary |
Dictionaries, each of which provides systematized content commons; and is maintained by the change agents |
Entity Dictionary Interaction Dictionary Actant Dictionary Indicator Dictionary |
| Actor Atlas with Statute and Initiative Books, Initiative Atlas under construction |
Atlasses on actors and initiatives |
Actor Atlas Initiative Atlas |
Corporate and Public Engagement with the Content Commons?
The sustainable maintenance of commons is a collective responsibility[8]. In the case of the vast content commons, the lack of systematization feeds poor awareness, slow accumulation, under-harvesting in development initiatives. It also feeds wasteful, opportunistic publishing[9], draining those in need of scarce resources as they seek actionable knowledge and content.
The value vision and the initial service architecture are first steps. Both the joint construction of future-proof systematized content commons and their deployment in private spheres must progress alongside performing multi-stakeholder initiatives in which both public and private spheres are affected.
The collective assets are constructed and maintained in four phases: foundations, testing, scaling and operations, as indicatively planned in the Road Map and illustrated by a number of Application Cases.
Corporate Benefits from Systematized Content Commons
Contact info[at]pragmetaknowledgeclout[dot]be with detailed requests for quotations.
Public Sphere Initiatives and Alliances
Public sector and non-profit actors, volunteers, and "knowledge-economy" philantropists can send requests and plans in using or contributing to systematized content commons by sending email to: info[at]pragmetaknowledgeclout[dot]be
Further Background
- reflect the value and risk drivers of multiple stakeholders in knowledge conversion modes that are instrumental for the typical socio-technical theatres :
- in operational theatres, following Ikujiro Nonaka's SECI model, these are called: Socialization, Externalization, Combination and Internalization);
- in tactical theatres, the knowledge conversion modes target systems improvement and involve monitoring and evaluation, cause-effect analysis, diagnosis, intervention design, and implementation;
- in strategic theatres, the knowledge conversion modes involve stakeholder and value/risk analysis, enterprise architecture capture and design, structural change and even paradigm change.
- ensure a broad-based utility and reusability of the systematized knowledge commons across strategic, tactical and operational theatres;
- ensure the situation-specific translation into actionable knowledge for multiple actors acting in myriad situations;
- overcome the presumptive mindset by an experimentalist approach that is more contingent on constraints in the economic, cultural, social and environmental context, and uses monitoring and evaluation to learn which initiatives work and which fail [10];
- overcome the pipe-stoved mentality and "print-on-paper" knowledge conversion approaches that have invaded our communication and implementation habits and that erode the socio-environmental value of knowledge, information and communication technology;
- engage a growing number of actors in systematizing the content commons, and in improving their utility in the engineering and implementation of sustainable actor networks[11] ;
- ensure the progressive synergetic connectivity between proprietary knowledge assets and the content commons;
- deploy the mobile web as a tool for stakeholder mobilization on the road to sustainable development, consumption and production.
Bibliography
2. Fogel, R. W. "Notes on the Social Saving Controversy," The Journal of Economic History (39:1) 1979, pp. 1-54.
3. Though it is difficult to give and allocate precise figures, the 2004 study by Gallagher, M. P., O'Conner, A. C., Dettbarn, J. L. Jr., Gilding, A., and Gilday, L. T. "Cost Analysis of Inadequate Interoperability in the U.S. Capital Facilities Industry", NIST GCR 04-867 (url:
http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/publications/gcrs/04867.pdf ) illustrates the techniques to be used in allocating and calculating potential benefits, and it gives an indication of the order of magnitudes that is at (collective) stake.
4. For background on enterprise architecture maturity, see
http://www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap27.html; savings and benefits from systematized knowledge commons are primarily for IT architecture characteristics: business linkage, senior management involvement, operating unit participation and architecture communication from the level of the
household, and
community to that of government and the United Nations.
5. Memedovic, O. (editor), 2008. Public goods for economic development. Tech. rep., UNIDO (p. 98)
URL
http://www.unido.org/fileadmin/user_media/Publications/documents/Public%20goods%20for%20economic%20development_sale.pdf
6. J. Schot, R. Hoogma, B. Elzen, Strategies for shifting technological systems: the case of the automobile system," Futures 26 (10) (1994) 1060–1076.
7. Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction, 2009, 'Clouds but little rain': views from the frontline - A local perspective of progress towards implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
url.
10. Rodrik, D., December 2009. Diagnostics before Prescription.
URL
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/drodrik/Research%20papers/Diagnostics%20before%20prescription.pdf
