On Dec 8, 2007 8:49 AM, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all - > > I was thinking that the IxDA community has a lot of potential to > contribute something positive to the world at large, either by > improving some system that people use for some positive social > impact, or maybe just making a social issue more visible via better > information design. >
Instead of picking one issue, why not design a generic framework for solving social issues across borders, groups, interests - Wikipolitics. Instead of voting once in two or four years (or not being able to vote) create "streaming civil society". The framework should allow to participate in solving issues globally, by nation, by town, by group, by individual. Dan Tapscott mentions some more restricted experiments in wikipolitics here (by the way, his 'Wikinomics' book is worth reading): http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/wiki-politics/ Perhaps Politicopia.com could be redesigned with the global, more generic framework in mind. Or perhaps the existing social networking sites could be used? Oleh ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
