Resources and Links Related to Complex Collectives
This is the zone of the market place (or bazaar), the digital on-line environments, and spontaneously forming crowds. It’s not really a new space. Markets have existed for millennia. While there is often an entity (often formed of traders themselves) that monitors the trading and exchanges and sets some basic rules, these rules are nearly all enablers so that the spontaneous interaction of agents exchanging value with one another can proceed without confusion or unnecessary impediment.
Collaborative work in this arena is characterized by more and more control shifting to agents, or the individual participants, while digital tools and simple rules serve as enablers and connectors. The Internet-based versions of this zone let people work together on projects from a distance (remote) and at their convenience instead of all at the same time (asynchronous). Events take on a more fluid and discontinuous feel.
What follows are links to resources and additional information about Complex Collectives.
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Theory
Sociocracy is a form of government based on consent among equivalent individuals and an organizational structure based on cybernetic principles.
Social Network: A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology), or airline routes.
Social Networking: A social network service focuses on the building and verifying of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others, and which necessitates the use of software.
Processes
Marketocracy: This community of 60,000 online stock traders tracks the decisions of its top 100 portfolios to set the investment strategy for its mutual fund. Its index has outperformed the S&P 500 in 11 of the past 17 quarters.
openDemocracy is the leading independent website on global current affairs - free to read, free to participate, free to the world...
A list of social networking web sites.
Myspace: MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends!
Facebook: Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.