” Having an organization isn’t a requirement for participation in any of those. It should not matter whether I work for a nonprofit, or if I work at all. If I have an idea to change the world, I should be just as welcome and have equal access to the spaces where I can share the idea and find others to help me make it come to life.”
Amy - I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve seen so many individuals with smart, innovative ideas turned away just because they are not part of an established org structure, or perhaps they work in social service sector but their idea relates to the arts. So discouraging for them and certainly no way to build broad community engagement. Makes one wonder if we really do, truly believe that ‘one person can make a difference’
Co-creation seems to me a lot like another buzzword from a bygone age - community collaboratives.
When they worked, community collaboratives that joined a number of service providers together to serve a single community had amazing outcomes. The problem is that they were very hard to execute and seldom worked.
Co-creation strikes me as similarly promising and similarly hard.
So I land on the side of you can create a game changing startup anyway that works. The startup might be more significant via co-creation, but it’s a lot harder to go down that road than to approach the problem from more traditional angles.
I agree with everything you’ve said above. I would add that my intuition tells me that to make all of those collaborations obsolete maybe should be the goal. Why? Well, once communities are close knit and taking care of their people, a looser structure of human kindness and care will hopefully take care of human needs (and ecosystem needs, for that matter)...Yeah, I know it’s a long way down the road, and I have, of course, been called a dreamer, but I do wish folks would vocalize the end goal, to not need organizations, etc, to take care of each other. That is the simplest way to say “co-creation”. That being said, I fully support and am involved in non-profit organizations as well as for-profit groups and am involved in their work toward the end of true co-creation. We DO have a long road ahead of us, to learn a more local and sustainable road of co-creation. And it IS largely through all of the connections you speak of above that it will happen. Thanks for posting!
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BY Michelle
ON January 7, 2011 11:59 AM
” Having an organization isn’t a requirement for participation in any of those. It should not matter whether I work for a nonprofit, or if I work at all. If I have an idea to change the world, I should be just as welcome and have equal access to the spaces where I can share the idea and find others to help me make it come to life.”
Amy - I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve seen so many individuals with smart, innovative ideas turned away just because they are not part of an established org structure, or perhaps they work in social service sector but their idea relates to the arts. So discouraging for them and certainly no way to build broad community engagement. Makes one wonder if we really do, truly believe that ‘one person can make a difference’
BY David Geilhufe
ON January 7, 2011 12:26 PM
Co-creation seems to me a lot like another buzzword from a bygone age - community collaboratives.
When they worked, community collaboratives that joined a number of service providers together to serve a single community had amazing outcomes. The problem is that they were very hard to execute and seldom worked.
Co-creation strikes me as similarly promising and similarly hard.
So I land on the side of you can create a game changing startup anyway that works. The startup might be more significant via co-creation, but it’s a lot harder to go down that road than to approach the problem from more traditional angles.
BY Naima
ON January 18, 2011 09:05 AM
I agree with everything you’ve said above. I would add that my intuition tells me that to make all of those collaborations obsolete maybe should be the goal. Why? Well, once communities are close knit and taking care of their people, a looser structure of human kindness and care will hopefully take care of human needs (and ecosystem needs, for that matter)...Yeah, I know it’s a long way down the road, and I have, of course, been called a dreamer, but I do wish folks would vocalize the end goal, to not need organizations, etc, to take care of each other. That is the simplest way to say “co-creation”. That being said, I fully support and am involved in non-profit organizations as well as for-profit groups and am involved in their work toward the end of true co-creation. We DO have a long road ahead of us, to learn a more local and sustainable road of co-creation. And it IS largely through all of the connections you speak of above that it will happen. Thanks for posting!