Has anyone heard of the Collaborative Competitions that Ashoka hosts? According to their website "Collaborative competitions “open source” innovative, workable solutions to the world’s most entrenched social problems. Competition entries are posted transparently online and available for anyone to view and collaborate with by providing new ideas, asking insightful questions, and providing connections to new resources. The collaboration provides the competitor with information to be used in refining their entry until the entry deadline, meaning the earlier you apply the more you gain." -- http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/competitions
Interesting way of integrating the two concepts. I would be curious to hear if anybody here has ever participated in one of these competitions and what the experience was like. Stephan On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Andrea Strimling <[email protected] > wrote: > > Hello all, > > This reminds me of Elise Boulding's work, especially her last book, > published at age 80, "Culture of Peace." She argues that history is > generally written as a sequences of wars, conflicts, invasions, > conquests, etc., but that history could just as easily be written as > the history of peaceful coexistence to nonviolent conflict resolution > to other related episodes in human history. Rather than refute the > prevailing approach, she focuses on creating an alternative that > illuminates cooperation. Elise is the wife of the late Kenneth > Boulding, and a highly-recognized scholar and peace activist - > nominated for Nobel some years ago. > > Andrea > > On Mar 8, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Robert Link wrote: > > > > > > > Cocos, > > > > I have grabbed a phrase, I think I got it from Howard's opening > > video on > > the resources page, (http://xrl.us/beiq7p) the phrase being, "The > > Competition Narrative". I'm interested in developing this idea, > > particularly in developing arguments against unwarranted privileging > > of > > that narrative. One way to explain my feelings about Axelrod's work is > > that it starts with or accepts an unwarranted privileging of the > > competition narrative and then seeks to undermine same, when, > > arguably, > > a better approach would be to simply deny and refute the aptness of > > the > > narrative in the first place. > > > > If any of y'all, especially Howard, have thoughts or links along these > > lines I'd be much obliged to hear from you. If you would like a little > > more context for this request you can look over my post at > > http://xrl.us/beiq73 > > > > Cheers, > > > > rl > > > > > > > Andrea L. Strimling > Research Fellow > Harvard Kennedy School > Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, International > Security Program > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
