The architecture of participation: or, Nobody is as clever as everybody

The architecture of participation, is a great line and nice idea that is part of a post at Epic blog

Further

Students in some institutions are now being encouraging to add and edit information on Wikipedia as part of their course work. The low barrier to entry means that it is no longer necessary to have specific technical tools or skills in order to take part - as Time magazine pointed out when they decided that You – the user, would be the Person of the Year in 2006.

Over in the corporate world, wikis are beginning to replace company intranets and personal hard drives as a shared knowledge base. By allowing every employee to contribute, knowledge management has entered uncharted territory. No longer is knowledge passed down from on high, rather it is built organically using a very simple set of tools.

And that is the architecture of the PULL organisation, flat, horizontal, dare I say democratic - by which I mean everybody's voice, ideas, creatvity, intelligence is valuable and can be aggregated.

The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies ( www.c4lpt.co.uk ) recently published their reader’s poll of the Top 100 tools for learning. Apparently the top 10 featured Firefox, Gmail, WordPress, Blogger, Google Reader and del.icio.us. No surprise there. And its great to see such tools being absorbed into the learning process.

Have a look at this video to see how much sense this makes to Generation C – The Community Generation.

And our observation is that those of Gen C - will naturally take this collaborative philosophy and approach into their working environment. It will transform businesses, their culture, their business models and how they operate. And we see collaborative engagement in many industries

Gen C Teachers will take this learning into schools and apply it, though I am sure there will be resistance. But tha is normal. The Telegraph companies did everyting in their power to stop Alexander Graham-Bell with his mad cap telephone idea. Even obbying government to legislate against such a development.

Progress is inevitable, but no-one said it would not be bloody.

But my advice is dig deeper, look way beyond the technology and understand the key principles that is driving this. As its not about the technology. Innovators are now directing the technological innovations towards a meta context, towards a greater ideal, even if that does not seem obvious at first.

At this significant point of realisation, one understands as we so often say, its not web or mobile/web 2.0 or 3.0 or even 4.0. Thats all meaningless. It is a new media and business ecology built as a We Media for a We Species

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