Collaboration Ecology
Introduction
Collaboration ecology refers to Open Source Ecology's overarching system of collaboration, including online and real events, with Test-Driven Design-Build, both realtime and asynchronous, towards solving Pressing World Issues. OSE is a pioneer in collaborative design, as the only effort in the world carrying out a decades-long program to opensource the technosphere in its entirety - by developing and documenting all results openly as a global, collaborative effort. OSE believes that an open technoshpere is a prerequisite for building democratic society, in harmony with natural life support systems. As of 2020, the concept of OSE has been in existence for 16 years, as is in its initial stages of large-scale development towards solving pressing world issues. Bt large-scale, we mean corporate-scale (yet distributed and open) product research and development, involving teams of thousands and budgets of millions.
Such a process begins with gathering around a massive transformative purpose (as in Diamandis), which involves improving conditions on Earth for continuaing survival of humans without detroying life support systems. This is a basis for space travel, immortality, and learning to get along with each other, with the latter being perhaps the most challenging - among other developments.
The Sustainable Development Goals capture many of the requirements for prosperity, and OSE's work is in line with most of this. OSE's perspective is that technology can help, but the real progress lies in upgrading the software in our heads to become more collaborative. As such, we would be able to solve problems more effectively, without running into anthropogenic, technogical, unintended consequences that can compromise the continuity of sentient civilization as we know it.
Collaboration Areas
Links
- Collaboration Architecture
- Team architecture document - [1]
- Collaboration Ecology 2014