• We want to collaborate on researching and implementing our visions;
  • We want this collaboration to be free of constraints on which vision and how we should pursue individually;
  • Yet, our individual work should contribute to the overall vision and draw inspiration / ideas / knowledge from others;
• This does not go easy:
  • We have a number of projects (both internally and externally) which revolve around the same ideas yet are somewhat isolated:
    • Challenge propagation, chemical organization theory, offer networks, FutureICT, Computing in the Web, Holomidal Collective Intelligence, Ceptr, etc…

• Combine two kinds of thinking:
  • Conceptual guidance (philosophers, scientists, theoreticians, …);
  • Unconstrained experimentation (entrepreneurs, hackers, developers, …);

• We want both conceptual guidance and unconstrained experimentation:

• Create more value via collaboration:
  • Connect the areas without constraining activities within them;
  • Attract people who are doing relevant research for sharing;
• Distribute the created value among participants;

• Allows for:
  • Co-creation of value through large-scale collaboration;
  • Distribution of value where it is needed;
• Via:
  • 'Stigmergic' and 'directed' resource sharing (incl. knowledge) among diverse initiatives and sub-communities;
  • Self-organization of "value synapses" (as contrasted with definition of value chains);
  • Trust, implicit and explicit partnership agreements;
  • Governance paradigm for loosely defined initiatives;

• Open Value Networks is a general framework;
• It reveals its power (and actually is created) via pilot projects, e.g.:
  • Sensorica.co http://www.sensorica.co/ - open hardware network;
  • Metamaps.cc http://metamaps.cc/ - real-time sense-making software;
  • …?
• There are no ready-made solutions, but many tools, approaches and guidelines which should be adapted to specific circumstances;

https://ovn.globalbraininstitute.org

• GBI-OVN:
  • is a value (scientific, monetary, otherwise) creation, sharing and distribution network based on the synergy of internal and external resources and people;
  • aims at facilitating and governing the large scale collaboration towards developing The Global Brain theory and technologies;
  • The network guides the self-organization of diverse expertise, knowledge, resources and financial sources (EU funds, commercial projects, philanthropy), people and ideas sharing the same broad vision.

• Acknowledge the shared understanding;
• Define the project's governance;
• Outline foreseeable scope of work required for the project;
• Build, collaborate, suggest, search, integrate, experiment…