31 May — Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs + Collaborative Writing + BlackPaper release (V2)

Smart Mobs, a book by Rheingold published in 2002, true to form presages decades early so much that’s transpiring in the socio-digital sphere today, and points the way to our discussion about the social norms of tomorrow addressed in the BlackPaper (see below). 

Smart Mobs Politics (2005 MIT chapter by Rheingold)

Applying the ‘smart mob' lens to the challenge of establishing social norms in the web 3 tech space, we highlight the continuum between ‘smart mobs’ patterns and ‘classic examples’ as they are still being wrought out in political arenas on the ground (F2F), online and in the media.

We’re keen to check out what emerges from the edges between the Smart Mobs Rheingold wrote about years ago in looking to augmented decentralized swarms and their geopolitical and existential shifts and impacts in the immediate future.

‘smart mob media’
‘smart mob politics’
’smart mob economy’
‘smart mob communities’
‘smart mob tech’
etc

BlackPaper final draft (V1.3) (Last call for comments)

"Synopsis: Recent events have shown us that those too extreme for the mainstream technology platforms like Facebook and Twitter are increasingly turning to encrypted technologies to organize, disrupt, and corrupt. Many current communities utilizing encrypted technology are unprepared for basic moderation, much less organized infiltration attempts. Because of this, we fear the lack of well-developed decentralized moderation and control mechanisms in the blockchain space, combined with financial incentives that reward bad behavior, will engender radicalism at unprecedented levels — especially when triggered by agenda-driven actors armed with big budgets and sophisticated tools. This paper discusses why we failed to anticipate this entirely obvious situation and argues for the immediate funding and development of a solution around governance, focused on inclusion and best practices for establishing social norms in order to welcome all interested parties who wish to take advantage of powerful decentralized technologies while protecting our communities from losing themselves to bad actors."


Shoutouts to Kernel and TRCC
We're cross-pollinating between multiple communities's network agendas, to extend a warm welcome to Kernel Junto-goers, and adventurers on TRCC field trips.

Toward the Wisdom Stack V2 (Minimum Viable Collaboratory Algorithm) 

Continuing on our path to effective real-time sensemaking, we refine our process flow in a symphony of augmented Peeragogy toward attaining the DKR envisioned by Engelbart. Essentially we are redefining the Wisdom Stack and preparing for an updated release in the coming weeks.

Inspired by the CICOLAB Process suggestions below (see video wrap on Collaboratory Process, May 24), Lauren created a board to empower CICOLAB members to take more stigmergic action on their own, as a next step towards permissionless innovation. This board is meant for everyone to contribute to, change, and help complete.

CICOLAB Process Template (new Miro by Lauren)

The Wisdom Stack: Essential Elements of a Rapid Learning Network (V1)

QUESTION TEAM

Promptly in a spontaneous burst of stigmergy, the self-organizing and self-appointed Question Team has come to life.

THANK YOU QUESTION TEAM!!!

Wendy McLean
Parmjit Nahil
Laureli Shimayo

Love, CICOLAB
🌊🏄🏽‍♀️💐
❤️🔥💛

“Evolved by Question Team”

List of questions for CICOLAB Improvement

Welcome To CicoLab

JUNE 7
CICOLAB Wisdom Stack 
Commons Summit & Pattern Jam
Through extensive discussions within Open Global Mind’s Stewards working group, Charles and Lauren along with OGM-CICOLAB fam Jerry Michalski, Judy Benham, Pete Kaminski, Matt Saiia and Vincent Arena have been gathering extensively several times weekly for many months to lay out substantial groundwork in connection with a stewardship framework put forth by Jordan Sukut and Lionsberg to augment global knowledge sharing and decisionmaking. A central component of this agreement template has emerged under the working title Generative Commons in an initial draft. OGM Bootstrap, CICOLAB and other sovereigns join in an emerging coalition to energize and co-evolve this integral approach to collaborative innovation.

Also on June 7, we anticipate releasing an updated version of our Wisdom Stack.

JUNE 14
Community Currency Patterns
Today & Tomorrow

Michael Linton of OpenMoney
Michael’s Curated Links — Community Currency

“Realizing our money — opening the adjacent and possible.
”Why we want our own money, how to start, and where it might take us.”

We will play an open money game, which will lead us into a discussion on tokens and DAOs with the CICOLAB ecosystem.

Pre-register at om.lets.net

register an account - short name is recommended - 3 alphanumeric characters minimum

an email is required to complete registration, but almost anything goes - ff@f.ff for instance - and nothing is traceable so you can be as anonymous as you choose.

password has a 5 character minimum.  Since password reset may or may not be installed and/or reliable, take what care you need to not need that.

Manu Alzuru — DoinGud 
DoinGud is an NFT platform launching in the coming weeks where every transaction does good. It strives to be community-owned and curated, empowering creators, curators, brands & organizations to engage directly with their audiences, tap into and create new and sustainable compensation streams, generate value for their audiences, and create meaningful social impact.

21 JUNE
Solstice Double Pattern Jam
1) Sam Rose Hot Seat on the work of Clare Graves
2) Integral Pattern Jam: Spiral Dynamics
3) Collaboratory Grantwriting Guest

TROVE — A message from Vincent Arena

You’re Invited to the Trove Alpha:

For anyone who hasn’t yet created a Trove account and wants to get in on the project, changemaker, and event directories being built on Trove, go to catalist.network/invite/cicolab and enter your name and email. You’ll then receive an email invitation where you’ll be prompted to set a password and then create your profile! You’ll automatically be added to CICOLAB as your first community, and soon will be able to apply to join other communities on the platform such as OGM, Chrysalis, and The Conversation. 


FLOTILLA
Community emerging ...
catalist.network/community/flotilla

In Cyberspace, we can’t really choose between freedom and public safety. It is a “both or neither” challenge, whose solution is key to bringing the democracy principle into the Digital Age.

New international standards and certifications are needed to foster the wide availability and adoption of IT for human communication that finally upgrades democracy to the Digital Age by finally realizing a global democratic digital public sphere that maximizes online all our democratic values, such as civil rights, freedom of assembly, law enforcement and national security, through innovative win-win solutions.

Next June 24th, the Trustless Computing Association will gather top experts to improve and finalize the governance and the binding socio-technical principles of a new international democratic governance and IT certification body that can sustainably promote cyber peace, global democratic governance and economic development.

Alex’s Dream

“I wanted to say in the [Systems Innovators Clubhouse] room about this dream I had the other day where it was like 5 years in the future and collective intelligence was a buzzword and I was guiding some leader through some techniques to build it.

“I was pointing to cicolab talking about some pioneering term and explaining the history and he was like "yeah yeah I've heard about cicolab" and I remember picking up this slight annoyance of him feeling late to the game.”

— Alex Kennedy