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knowledge

The Future of Foundations

The Open Social Foundation is a new : "non-profit entity jointly proposed by Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google. The goal of the OpenSocial Foundation is to ensure the sustainable and open development of the OpenSocial initiative and related intellectual property." You can read the proposal for the foundation here and
27 Mar 2008 1 min read
ideas

Questions, not answers, on open source philanthropy

I wrote a book chapter about open source philanthropy. It is in The World We Want, edited by Peter Karoff and Jane Maddox and includes an interview with me called, "Open Sesame: Networks of Cooperation and Open Source Solutions." It presented seven building blocks for bringing open source
25 Mar 2008 1 min read
charrette

Solving complex problems

(Photo: www.mit.edu. Design by Suzana Lisanti) Solving complex problems is what some foundations claim to be doing. Many more wish they had the guts to stake this claim, but are perhaps more realistic about what they can do. I've written a lot about crowd sourcing as
04 Dec 2007 2 min read
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