![]() ![]() In 2011, NNC joined Community Ventures, a K2 Law Group 501(c)3 specializing in fiscal sponsorship. N extNow Collaboratory began as a fiscal project of 501(c)(3) Planetwork, whose mission since 1998 has been “Networking a Sustainable Future.” Planetwork was a perfect match for launching us because they’re about networking a sustainable future by exploring how the creative application of digital tools can open new possibilities for positive global change, and we’re about exploring how the conscious, creative leveraging of human networks sharing those tools can create collaborations with the potential to liberate collective wisdom for positive social change. (Photo above by Eileen Clegg, Visual Insight, for NextNow Collab/ISDE5.) We’re also interested in co-creating the “next now” of collaboratories with others who sense the immense potential in evolving the concept and practice of collaboration towards co-evolving a consciously created future. Please see NNC page on Digital Earth, and posts here and here. Our first big project was to collaborate with the International Society for Digital Earth on producing the 5-day Fifth Annual International Symposium on Digital Earth (the first held in the United States) at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Human and Tool Systems must Co-Evolve NextNow Collaboratory matches needs with resources by mobilizing the social, intellectual, creative and financial capital, energy and good will available in our diverse and growing “network of networks” to co-create selected projects. ![]() ![]() In September 2006, the collaboratory was established by NNN cofounder Claudia Welss to help tap those synergies for social benefit - to help keep them “on-purpose” and mobilize them for collective action. The social network intends to accelerate the identification of synergies in the web of relationships it represents to help transform our collective present, and began in January of 2003. NextNow is both a purposeful social network with a social purpose (NextNowNetwork/NNN) and a collaboration laboratory. This possibility is at the heart of NextNow Collaboratory projects. Once awareness shifts, collaboration technologies help enable collective action reflecting the new awareness. This revelation can lead to huge and immediate shifts in awareness. Whether it’s the loss of arable land, the displacement of populations due to conflict, the Pacific Plastic Gyres, or the collective effects of human stress, these technologies illuminate the larger story–and our relationship to it–by making the previously unseen, seen–by making the invisible, visible. Information visualization technologies deepen discovery by communicating layers of information and revealing systems and their interconnections effectively and viscerally. Making the Invisible Visible™-Our Core Function Visualizing information is key to discerning the meaning hiding in complexity. We focus on contributing to social benefit projects emphasizing innovative information visualization and collaboration technologies to benefit the planet. NextNow Collaboratory is a collaboration lab for cultivating connective intelligence for collective action toward a world that works for all. Malone, Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence “NextNow or Never!” NextNower Kenny Ausubel, co-Founder, Bioneers “ NextNow Collaboratory is an interesting example of a new kind of collective intelligence: an Internet-enabled, portable social network, easily transferable from one social cause to another.” Thomas W. ![]()
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