There has been a proliferation of Think Tanks in recent years, with nearly 7,000 world wide. An Open Think Tank is a project to create a think tank that uses a structured but open collaboration model.
Consulting, provision of services as well as planning and execution of projects in the IT, management and innovation sector; trading and sale of IT products and consumer goods; organization and implementation of conferences, training courses and seminars; provision of services in the field of technical communication and adult education.
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Thought Garden is an Open Think Tank, where we look to have new forms of conversation.
Liquid Democracy is a combination of Direct Democracy, and Representative Democracy. It aims to create a more flexible and fluid way for people to express their Democratic Preference.
The Practical Knowledge Ecology group is an unmanageable herd of cats. As a uniting force to provide us with some context, I (Lauren Nignon) propose that we come together under the umbrella of a “smart network,” based on Chris Cook’s Non-dominium concept.
The idea of a __knowledge ecosystem__ is an approach to knowledge management which claims to foster the dynamic evolution of knowledge interactions between entities to improve Decision-Making and innovation through improved evolutionary networks of collaboration - wikipedia 
__Reputation systems__ are programs that allow users to rate each other in online communities in order to build trust through reputation. Some common uses of these systems can be found on E-commerce websites such as eBay, Amazon.com, and Etsy as well as online advice communities such as Stack Exchange.
Here we start some thinking and research on resilience in the context of distributed system design, wiki and agile. Just notes for now - please fork your thoughts here :)
* Networked Collaboration
Caulfield spent many years, from the early aughts onward, promoting wiki as the prime example of networked collaboration, to varied success. Then several years ago he came across a video of Ward Cunningham, the inventor of wiki, saying he may have got key elements of wiki wrong. …
See Mike Caulfield.