A short presentation for my panel session at Open.coop 2018 https://2018.open.coop/sessions/networking-the-networks/
Session outline:
Laura James Co-founder at Digital Life Collective and Francesca Pick, Co-Founder Greaterthan & OuiShare Fest will discuss the wide range of projects and movements aiming to unite cooperative organisers and networks to enable collaboration at scale.
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Networking the networks
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2. What is the Digital Life Collective?
@tech_we_trust diglife.com
3. What business, industry or trade does the
society intend to carry out?
The society will operate as a consortium co-
operative carrying out the following activities:
research, design, fund, develop, certify and use
digital products and services that respect and
protect human rights.
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6. The chessboard is the globe, the traditional globe we’ve
always used. It’s a map and it’s drawn according to a world
of states. The web is like a map of flight paths all over the
world, this is a world of flows, of people and institutions
that are connected across, above and through the state.
Like the internet.
– Anne Marie Slaughter
9. Identifying network links
● Who does good work?
● What voices are not heard? Who are the unusual
suspects?
● Who do we need to work with for this work to be
successful? Respected? Useful? Adopted?
11. ● fostering openness & participatory processes
● working at multiple levels – eg local, state, national
● facilitate shared visions, new thinking, alignment, and
agreement building
● balance multiple dimensions of success, including
relationships, process, and results
processes
12. ● paying attention to personal relationships
● maintaining credibility by representing the voices and
needs of those most directly impacted
● listening to the needs and desires of stakeholders both
core and peripheral
● recognise others’ contributions and accomplishments
behaviour
14. Field catalysts
● Focus on population-level change, not on scaling up an
organisation or intervention
● influencing the actions of others, rather than acting
directly themselves
● getting things done, not building consensus
● built to succeed, not to last
15. ● differences as well as similarities
● not everyone will be perfectly nice!
● who is doing the labour of network care?
● networks are always changing
● structured vs agile
@tech_we_trust diglife.com
Notas do Editor
Focus here is on the WHAT and WHY
This is what our formal registration says
And I think some of you think of us as a network of networks, which is interesting, and not my sense
We do have different teams, but we are very small
And we do link into some other organisations
But we are, if anything at the very start of a journey of figuring out how we are a networked organisation
First up, let’s be clear about one thing. Networks are not this
Networks are also constantly shifting landscapes of opportunities and expectations.
And this emphasis on asset and network based leadership makes it immediately more possible for leaders across boundaries to collaborate more successfully and intelligently to do together what they cannot possibly do alone, apart or in opposition.
Because although we know that the chess board still exists everyone in this room knows we live in the networks era, where large scale impact has moved beyond
simply challenging or entrepreneuring or being an intermediary – it involves opening up new connections between pieces of the world that were disparate.
We want to work with power differently
We know that to have influence and impact we need to co-ordinate our effort with others
We understand the interdependencies of the challenges we are trying to address
We really know and understand our audiences, stakeholders, partners….
We know things about networks. Good networks do not come for free, they take labour.
Information about a network is useful
Networks should be designed, activated and maintained
Networks depend on trust and reciprocity
Face to face interaction increases cooperation
And we each bring our own networks and networks expertise
Go beyond the obvious
Focus on what you are trying to achieve
And once you know who you are networking with you need to actually do that work….
There’s lots of things to think about
Not all of these are obvious in what we think of as networks.
And we see a new kind of endeavour. Catalysing change as part of the network
And some of these are the most interesting kinds of organisation – the kind which have an end date, a shutdown plan.