1PIE Global Collaboration Portal

Hi everyone,

Thanks james for creating a place to meet and continue our brainstorming session.

To keep the momentum going, I have uploaded 3 documents everyone on the team should read.

They were created by Jenny Huang, the Chair of the International Free and Open Software Foundation.

She had to attend another conference on the same dates but will be joining us.

I am new to WiserEarth.org, so if you have some tips to make the use experience easier, please share with others.

Sophie

Sophie, thanks so much for the work you did...

Lorenzo, I am glad you are here because I did not get to talk with you about a lot of the good points and ideas you had.

I was really impressed with what Greg Wendt had to day. I feel like he is at the cutting edge and much of the stuff he offered during our session was great (indeed i was a bit overwhelmed) and we need to consider it. We just have to make sure that we are not creating more layers of complexity in our lives...because the idea is that technology needs to be easy to understand and to use to be effective and empowering.

That makes me wonder what are our follow up goals for this group? Maybe we could create or organize a process to continue the discussion about how to proceed with the PIE Collaboration Portal? So how are we going to do this?

I think there were a lot of good threads of discussion there. Maybe break it up into some core themes in the notes relevant to the larger group consensus of the primary goals/objectives that we used Chris Bui's voting tool to obtain on day two.

That relates to another point the points we selected as a group were at the low end of the scale in terms of what the overall group selected as priorities so that has to be reconciled in some way.

It is not clear to me about the specific responsibilities of the PIE Collaboration group in relation to the Global Summit. My thought is that basically PIE Collaboration Portal is the IT Empowerment group.

What I thought was important to look at was the possible roles for this group in relation to TGS:

• Preparing for the conference sections
• Documentation of past events such as the one we recently participated in
• Mapping of network including profiles for participants and also the organizations they represent and related projects and projects of interest
• Evaluation systems to help improve the process
• Assist the development of the PIE collaboration sectors to develop effective IT tools to facilitate the process
• Enable connections between nodes to promote collective IQ both within and outside TGS network
• Design easy to use IT to enable effective collaboration among non-geeks
• Facilitate collaboration between isolated global regions to bring people together
• Prepare for events to enable effective communications between participating "Digital Villages" during the Summits in several locations around the world.

HI HI HI! Just want to say HI!

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~In Joy!~