Innovation Networks

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Innovation Networks

• Jody Ranck, DrPH
• CODIST Workshop, Addis Ababa, April 28, 2009

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Introduction to Social Media

• What was web 1.0?
• What is driving web 2.0?
• What are the tools available?
• What types of problems are being solved?
• Challenges

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Intro to Social Media

• Web 1.0

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Intro to Social Media web 2.0
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Architecture of Participation

• User-generated content
• Self-publishing
• Peer-to-peer interactions
• Many-to-many
• Swarm behavior/crowdsourcing
• Cooperation

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Blogs
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Blogs
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Wikis
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Science Wikis
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Social Networks
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Social Networks
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Whats Driving Social Media?

• Rise of participatory culture
• DIY
• Lower transaction costs than MSM
• Finding like-minded people
• Distrust of hierarchy, traditional institutions
• Cooperation
• Too much knowledge in silos
• Disciplines disciplining knowledge

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Tools of Cooperation

• RSS
• Micro-blogging
• Social Tagging
• Podcasting
• Solution finding vs. Problem Solving

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Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
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RSS

• Broadcasting
• Updating
• Sharing

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Feeds and Aggregators

• Google Reader, NewsGator, AfriGator
• Time Saver
• Personalized Newspapers
• Social Filters, eg. Friend Feed

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Aggregator
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Social Tagging
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Tag Clouds
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Social Tagging

• Folksonomies
• Sharing Research/developments
• Can make feeds to aggregators

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Micro-blogging
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microblogging
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microblogging
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Social Networking

• Finding like-minded people
• Finding out who is doing what
• Where are people going online?
• How are they building communities?
• Sharing ideas and interests
• Organizing collective action
• Open policy-making/government 2.0

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Social Networking
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Social Networking
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Social Networking
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Social Networking
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Social Networking
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How we think about innovation is changing
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Open Innovation
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New Models for Innovating
User Led Innovation
Open Innovation
Peer-to-peer
Co-creation
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Open Innovation/Ideation
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Open Innovation
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Open Innovation
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Open Innovation
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Co-created science
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Co-created science
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Open Science
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Part 2 Open Science
Science 1.0
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Open Science
Science 2.0
Source MichaelNielsen.org
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Science 2.0 What is it?

• Open Access
• Social Filters
• Open/transparent experimentation
• New Media Learning Tools
• New Scientific Commons
• Swarming for Innovation and collaboration/cooperat
  ion

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Open Access
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Open Access
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Open Access
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Open Access
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Open Access-Search
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Open Access-Search
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Open Access/Data
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Tools of Coop. in Science
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Tools of Cooperation
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Tools of Cooperation
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Tools of Cooperation
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Open Data
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Open Notebook Science
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Open science connectivity
More info on open source science here
http//usefulchem.wikispaces.com
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UsefulChem in Second Life
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Visualization Experimentation
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Visualization and Experimentation
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Open Protocols
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Science Networks
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Science Networks
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Science Networks
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Science Networks South to South
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Networks across bottlenecks
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Innovation Platforms
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New Science Commons
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Collaboratories
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Open Innovation with Africa
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Building Communities of Practice for Innovation

• Which scientific communities? Do they overlap?
• What are their priority needs around
  collaboration? Innovation?
• Which groups are the most important?
• What would success look like? Who decides?
• Who will be the community gardner?
• Resources? Outreach?

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Barriers

• CIO policies often prohibit social
  networking/cooperation tools
• Interfaces may need to be adapted to African
  bandwidth
• Culture of science is often closed
• Can they be taken into the field, ie. mobile

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Why people participate?

• Recognition
• Sense of Community-new relationships
• Decreased isolation
• Feedback on work/more publishing
• Self-publishing
• Find Solutions

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Benefits of Innovation Networks

• Agility
• Extract knowledge from the edges/external
• Uncover hidden practices/insights
• Synergies with other institutions
• Swarm behavior
• Reduce costs
• Locate experts

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Components of Networks

• Trust
• Open Access to everyone
• Transparency
• Learning Network
• Easy to contribute-SIMPLICITY
• Rewards for contributing
• Flexible platforms for changing needs
• Content is king
• Connections to offline activities

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What Would Askia 2.0 look like?

• What kinds of communities?
• Which problems (or types) could be addressed?
• What tools would be most useful?
• Science commons for Africa?
• What incentives to participate?
• Open innovation platform?

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• What are the most pressing problems you think we
  could use this tool in Africa ?
• Who would be the scientific communities that
  could get involved?
• What would the platform do?
• What would the platform look like?