Collaborative Methods

Decentralized Internet

• The future of the open Internet is decentralized

The movement toward a decentralized Internet—to a truly free space, where anyone can communicate privately with anyone else without censorship—does not originate from the White House, Pentagon, or the halls of the United Nations. Instead, as has so often been the case with Internet evolutions, groups of hackers, technologists, and idealists are tucked away in the cracks and shadows, slaving away to make this dream a reality.

MaidSafe: Secure Access for Everyone (SAFE)

• Press Summary: The Decentralized Internet is Here

MaidSafe is a technology company developing a completely secure, fully decentralized peer-to-peer network that could change the future of the Internet.

Data & Intelligence

LittleSis

• LittleSis - Profiling the powers that be.

LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government. We're a grassroots watchdog network connecting the dots between the world's most powerful people and organizations.

• Introducing Oligrapher: power mapping on LittleSis

Social network graphs offer a way of supplementing narrative with accessible representations of complex relationships and networks.

Ushahidi

• Ushahidi

Ushahidi is a program that mines and collects data and provides information for emergency situations, like natural disasters. Ushahidi is shared globally to track election results and has been used to gather information about supply needs in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. More recently, it has been deployed for disaster relief in Fukushima.

Participatory

Occupy Cafe

• Occupy Cafe

The purpose of Occupy Cafe is to serve and expand the Occupy movement and to support the conversation it has ignited into the wider world. Real and meaningful change for good comes when WE THE PEOPLE stand, speak and act together, cooperatively and collaboratively.

Occupy Cafe on PortlandWiki

• http://portlandwiki.org/File:Ocuppy-cafe.jpg
• http://portlandwiki.org/OP_Gathering_of_Solidarity_and_Support

Open Space Technology

• Open Space Technology

World Café

• About The World Café

Participatory Society

• International Organization for a Participatory Society (IOPS)

Crowdfunding Platforms

• CoopFunding

"Free and cooperative cofinancing."

• Gittip

"Sustainable crowdfunding, with no strings attached and no extra fees." The first "Open Company." "Gittip is a way to give money every week to people and teams you believe in."

• Balanced

An "Open Company."

Further Reading

• Towards a shared and disobedient crowdfunding platforms network

Crowdfunding platform highlighted in above article: CoopFunding - free and cooperative cofinancing

• Why I Made My Payments Startup An Open Company - By Matin Tamizi, CEO of Balanced

Other Crowd Financing Resources

• Comparison of crowd funding services