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.

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.

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)