Open Call proposals:

collaboration issues Sharing Cities

Update #1

Open Call proposals

Running up towards the Collaboration Lab Camp 2014 in Sharing City Amsterdam we have very inspiring partners taking part. All of them are very keen on promoting a more collaborative society and the creation of new roles and insights for government, non-profits, entrepreneurs and citizens. Taking the lead towards inclusive, sustainable and social solutions for all.

Participants Open Call

1. Municipalities of the Massive Innovation Project, Dordrecht, Ronde Venen and Schiedam, with several issues: amongst which the reduction of protective software — towards a more participatory way of policy making; creating accessible mobility for all including the ill and elderly people in a more sharing way.

Dordrecht:

• Horizontal ways of collaboration: how can you work together with citizen experts, communities as well as other parties involved in solving complex issues? How can you monitor and guard adequat results?
• How can we be in charge over our software licenses? Often we feel we cannot reach citizens for the reason of our closed systems. How can we open up to society? Can we for instance bring the amount of closed system use radically down to i.e. 30% of the present?

Ronde Venen:

• How can we provide adequate mobility in an age of budget cut downs and in our rural area where public transport already is problematic. Now we are also responsible for the transport of elderly people, disabled and ill people. Can we use more sharing instruments? Can we arrange mobility on demand?

Schiedam:

• How can we create a self learning society? Can we enable communities and citizens better? What do we need to do?

2. Guts4Roses and ZEEF: creating a new Google, not only finding hits, but creating tight to fit information and cocreating solutions with you. Overcoming information overload, getting more efficient using data and creating optimal results.

3. Sharing Behind the Dunes, 45 charities for poverty reduction and help for the homeless: creating access to computers, wifi, sharing opportunities, healthy food, clothing, jobs and help for all. Creating leverage towards open access by involving citizens.

“How do you survive below poverty level? Are computers helpful and how can as many people as possible have one? Does one need to learn how to share? Do area’s with a high poverty grade need a mesh network for cheaper and sustainable wifi? How to create awareness of hidden richness and poverty in a city involving all neighbor help possible? How can all assets in a city including waste, second hand material, skills and knowledge be used to make a more beneficial impact on the city? Can we actually make poverty reduction fun and a goal for anyone in the city to contribute to? How do we use our personell as useful and efficient as possible using sharing methods to contribute to helping, enabling and facilitating the poor and homeless as much as possible? What (collaboration) skills, mindset or new perspective does this demand?”

4. Gerard Dusable / Henny van der Most: creating opportunities for self management of the homeless in rebound housing and the operation of a soup bus. For inspiration this crowd investment platform is interesting: Handup.us

“Can homeless people help themselves? How can we introduce i.e. talent sharing or skill sharing? Is the idea of aid and bouncing back in a system that permanently fails actually correct or can homeless people be helped in a different way, using their talents to organize and survive? How can homeless and caretakers collaborate more effectively towards new housing, healthy food, getting rid of financial problems and connecting to those that want to contribute in a sharing way?”

5. Maybe: University of Applied Sciences The Hague, department of social work: looking forward to a more sharing curriculum of education for social workers, becoming the next social entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Social Work has been built around and as a reaction to the establishment before. Nowadays sharing methods and new collaboration possibilities have arrived. How do we look at care, prevention and aid at the time of a changing society and social system? Do clients need to be lead back towards the system or do we need to create new methods? Which challenges do caretakers and social workers face? How can sharing and collaborating give a new outlook on their jobs and the involvement of clients themselves?

“With an outlook towards a changing societal landscape there is a need for the innovation of the field of social work. Many budgets are being cut down, students that graduate are not all able to find a job and some studies even face an ending now. Those students that do get a job are facing radically different demands than before. How do we create a more connected development of social work that stays in tune with trends and developments in society? Can we learn from social entrepreneurs? How can the interaction between social entrepreneurs and social workers be enhanced? What does the future of helping others and care look like? Is it entrepreneurial? Sharing? Or collaborative?”

6. Sophiq and IMPEC: measuring impact in Sharing Cities by following good examples. Creating more horizontal and collaborative ways of measuring impact within the current system of responsibilities. Creating thus more space for multi party collaboration within the present political and governance system of companies and government.

7. Refuse: upcycling and production methods of waste-products. How can a combination of a more sustainable consumption, waste re- and upcycling methods and new production methods lead towards a more inclusive less waste creating society?

Metal and plastic waste company Wilcohaag:

“Upcycling ideas are often there, but the production scale is not large enough yet to really have a sustainable impact, effecting consumption and the scale of waste that has to be turned into something else. What can we do to change this?”

8. ZHYR: how can we walk in the streets collaboratively? Most people are walking in the street like they own the street. How can we walk in the street more friendly?

9. Amanda Jansen Is..: entrepreneurship seems to be about gaining money and being better than others a lot. As social entrepreneurs we spend a lot of time on framing our proposals, speaking to our clients wanting cheaper prices and the best results. It’s almost like we cannot collaboratively work together for benefit: clients and entrepreneurs. Actually it looks a lot like fighting over details. How can we create a system for benefit, negotiating as little as possible, so we can put maximum effort in our jobs and shared goals? Can we create shared collaboration values for benefit that are so universal that we don’t have to be talking about the price of our work again and again, fine tuning proposals. And can we act faster as clients and social entrepreneurs making deals for example with an easy dealmaker app?

Main description

Sharing and collaborating in a changing field of partners and cooperation demands a new outlook on Sharing Cities. Shareable has developed a Sharing Policy Primer promoting such. In Flanders we have a Dutch version of this policy primer: Share the future, 65 measurements for a sustainable and resilient sharing economy in Flanders.

In Collaboration Lab Camp Amsterdam 2014 we look further than the promotion of sharing economy solely. Collaborative solutions for common challenges such as:

• Climate change and pollution.
• Building new opportunities with waste and waste reduction.
• Reduction of poverty and homelessness.
• The re-invention of social work and charity work in a more sharing way.
• Access to healthy and sustainable food.
• Sustainable healthcare.
• Helping citizen experts and social entrepreneurs to move forward with open collaboration and information structures in cities.
• Measuring impact as social entrepreneurs, active citizens and city councils collaborating towards a more sustainable and social future.

This means we are taking a deep dive into the future of collaboration. Enhancing new opportunities and creating awareness and support for them in the same time by involving government officials, non-profits and companies dealing with day to day issues as well as social entrepreneurs.

Program

Solid throughout the program

Sophiq is developing a demo in it’s measuring system based on the Sharing Policy Primer of Flanders. We can use this demo during the Collaboration Lab Camp to improve measuring the impact of horizontal and informal collaboration. Sophiq will give an introduction on saturday morning, give and get feedback mondaymorning and come to concusions with us in the final day.

Measuring impact to enhance the trust in the work of social entrepreneurs, citizens and innovators, creating new collaboration opportunities is something that is important to us all. We hope to get your response and input during the event.

ZEEF has a system for data curation and will present this in the first day together with the idea to make a new Google by Guts4Roses. The system of ZEEF can be used for data curation during the event, so we can very concretely register our results, blogs, photo’s over there. Who’s in for voluntary data curation?

Sharing by Good Xample

IMPEC is already sharing it’s measuring method with social media and has an e-learning system, but would like policymakers, politicians to be more involved in sharing their results. How can the GoodXample-method be used in an even more sharing way? This question goes along with the first of Sophiq. And we might be enabled to upload our own Good Xamples during the event maybe so we can be sharing by Good Xample. Or just enable ourselves to create our own Good Xamples and share them later.

Barcamp Method

Each morning along with the solid projects, a bar camp session will be held to get to the right subjects to work on together. The outcome depends on the entrepreneurs, citizens and officials involved. In the bar camp session all of us get together to mention our desired subjects and to determine each others involvement in it.

Hold-up Sessions

Make Sense has a specialized method for breaking down challenges and involving anyone as much as possible. We do this session as a brainstorm with post-its in several rounds getting toward the most amazing outcomes. For open brainstorms we will use this method to continue.

Knowmads Business School Tribe Facilities

Our hosts from tribe 9 and 10 of Knowmads Business School are specialized and trained in collaborative ways of working like: Open Space Meetings, non-violent communication, the Art of Hosting, Visual Harvesting, Chaordic Stepping Stones. They will contribute to maximal collaboration and a great atmosphere during the event.

Future

After the Collaboration Lab Camp Amsterdam 2014 we create an collaboration agenda for next year to inspire others. Together with the radio podcasts, pictures, blogs and data we collaboratively create a new outlook on a more collaborative society.

And.. of course Collaboration Lab Camp has a continuation in the sense of implementing working processes and solutions found during the coming year. Advocating a more collaborative future involving others, enhancing inspiration and others getting involved in sharing cities.

Hopefully together with you and many others we will be able to evaluate positively and get on to the next Collaboration Lab Camp in 2015.