The best description of the dumpster diving / squatting lifestyle we have read. And a powerful argument for creating a reputation system that motivates owners to leverage excess capacity for the public good.
Here’s the audio from a talk I gave at the Ethos Roundtable last week, covering both the big picture and the immediate usefulness of what we have.
I started out by asking the audience for examples of how their nonprofits connected people in communities, and then, working from their answers, talked about the community metrics we will track and reward:
I explained how we can encourage community members to share resources with the organizations who do well on these metrics, and how simple that sharing can be using twitter and facebook, etc.
Finally, I got to the ground floor of demoing our availability and communications platform and how it can be used to make all this concrete and for both developers and community organizers to embrace.
Okay, this is way better than the DARPA thing. How many whales can we save with Groundcrew? I love it.
Several people have mentioned that our real-time, location-based coordination service, Groundcrew, could be helpful in finding the DARPA Network Challenge balloons.
Groundcrew integrates with facebook, twitter, and SMS, and could be used to:
Call us and we can work out how to set it all up.
My bet: with the right location-based messaging technology, and massive adoption, people like Jane McGonigal and Annette Mees can make even our walmart parking lot catastrophies interesting. It’s coming.
MadV does it again. I doubt that any large-scale transformation of civil society can work unless it is beautiful and maybe also funny. Folks like MadV, Ze Frank, and Charlie Todd understand this. And we very much hope that as Citizen Logistics grows, we can get allies like those three to help make our movement as beautiful and as valuable.
Over the next few weeks I’m going to be gathering ideas for community coordination projects from all of you, and inviting some of you to post paragraphs or to guest blog about your ideas. Send your idea—make them beautiful and relevant to your experience or field—to joe at citizenlogistics dot com!
“I am particularly impressed by the self-organizing qualities of Groundcrew, around ‘participation design’, where the volunteers are handed more control about how their involvement should be applied in some project or activity, instead of just being told what to do.
Groundcrew can also keep track of people’s contributions and then award reputation (what I call “swarmth” and they call “PosX”) without cash, without currency, simply by keeping track of results. Very interesting.” - from the article
An ignite talk on Groundcrew filmed by the good folks at ACTV. Tells the story of the first wish granted on Groundcrew! (full video)
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