Mike Gravel 08 - Great, or the Greatest
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WISER Commons is a community-driven expansion of the WISER (World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility) vision in support of large-scale information sharing and cooperation among people and organizations. Currently, organizations are posting information, resources, and calendars to individual websites where this information cannot be freely and easily exchanged. It remains in silos and most people do not necessarily know where it is or how to access it.
WISER Commons is a member-centric network in which participants agree to cooperate in the creation of public goods to be freely used by all members of society. WISER Commons will establish cooperation agreements and protocols so that the work done by one organization/website can be easily and in some cases automatically repurposed by another. This represents a pooling of resources, and creation of public goods, precisely the activity WISER hopes to foment.
However, information-sharing is much more easily said than done. Even though an organization may be profiled in numerous places (e.g. Guidestar, OneNorthwest, and Youthgive), there are no good ways to uniquely identify it, cross-correlate the various profiles, identify inconsistencies, assess the reliability of the data, etc. Even the simple task of finding the definitive address and phone number is error prone. This problem is compounded many times over when working internationally.
Enter the WISER Commons Architecture and Code, the technology that makes collective awareness, communication and collaboration of communities and their members possible. It is not only open-source—the same principle that informs all of WISER—but it is specifically a platform for "open data"— a means to freely exchange information and communicate ideas that can vastly accelerate understanding, social evolution, community, and adaptation.
From an architectural perspective, the WISER Commons Architecture and Code is a "stack". It starts with low-level capabilities for identifying, authenticating, and authorizing participants and the subjects about which they wish to interact; then builds a layer of data-sharing and messaging functionality; and finally an application layer on which collaboration tools can thrive.
NCI will act as fiscal sponsor for WiserCommons and supplies the tools for it to succeed. NCI and Interra have spearheaded this effort together and will continue to do so until it has the necessary infrastructure to be run by its members.
WISER Commons is a community-driven expansion of the WISER (World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility) vision in support of large-scale information sharing and cooperation among people and organizations. Currently, organizations are posting information, resources, and calendars to individual websites where this information cannot be freely and easily exchanged. It remains in silos and most people do not necessarily know where it is or how to access it.
WISER Commons is a member-centric network in which participants agree to cooperate in the creation of public goods to be freely used by all members of society. WISER Commons will establish cooperation agreements and protocols so that the work done by one organization/website can be easily and in some cases automatically repurposed by another. This represents a pooling of resources, and creation of public goods, precisely the activity WISER hopes to foment.
However, information-sharing is much more easily said than done. Even though an organization may be profiled in numerous places (e.g. Guidestar, OneNorthwest, and Youthgive), there are no good ways to uniquely identify it, cross-correlate the various profiles, identify inconsistencies, assess the reliability of the data, etc. Even the simple task of finding the definitive address and phone number is error prone. This problem is compounded many times over when working internationally.
Enter the WISER Commons Architecture and Code, the technology that makes collective awareness, communication and collaboration of communities and their members possible. It is not only open-source—the same principle that informs all of WISER—but it is specifically a platform for "open data"— a means to freely exchange information and communicate ideas that can vastly accelerate understanding, social evolution, community, and adaptation.
From an architectural perspective, the WISER Commons Architecture and Code is a "stack". It starts with low-level capabilities for identifying, authenticating, and authorizing participants and the subjects about which they wish to interact; then builds a layer of data-sharing and messaging functionality; and finally an application layer on which collaboration tools can thrive.
NCI will act as fiscal sponsor for WiserCommons and supplies the tools for it to succeed. NCI and Interra have spearheaded this effort together and will continue to do so until it has the necessary infrastructure to be run by its members.
Participating member organizations in WiserCommons to date include:
| 2People 21 Acres Adina for Life Aspiration Bainbridge Graduate Institute BALLE B-Lab Black Dollar Day Task Force Boomers without Borders Boston Main Streets Calm Rain Designs Celilo Group Center for EcoLiteracy Center for Ethical Leadership City of Seattle Office of Sustainability Collective Intelligence Institute Cordance Craigslist Foundation DenCity Research EarthAid EarthSite Ecotopia 2012 EcoTrust Efura EVO |
E-Waste Insights Gennette Lighting Designs Grass Commons Green Century Institute Green Enterprise Toronto Green Home GreenWorks Realty Imagine Cascadia Imagnify Inspiring Green Leadership Institute for the Future Institute for Washington’s Future Interra Project Local Exchange Madison Market Natural Capital Institute NICO One Northwest oo Tao Pathways Pen Pixel Portfolio 21 Roots of Change SacredActivism SalmonBerry Designs |
S-BAR Seattle Event Horizons Seattle Human Services Coalition SiteLine Social Physics Soulfege and the Sweet Mother Tour SPUD Sustainable Connections Sustainable Seattle SweetMother.org The Russell Family Foundation ThePeopleWeb Tools for Change Urban Alliance for Sustainability Urban Logic Urth TV Vibrant Planet Voices in Wartime Weapons of Mass Entertainment Web Collective WiserBusiness WiserEarth World Changing |
WiserCommons has held four public meetings; two in San Francisco and one each in Seattle (December 1, 2006) and Portland (April 5, 2007, hosted by Ecotrust). Future gatherings will be in Vancouver BC, and Boston. Search the WiserEarth events calendar for details as they become available.
More information on the WiserCommons wiki page. Other questions? Contact Jon Ramer at j.ramer@comcast.net.
