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IOpenLexiconv2.0

By

BetseyMerkel,CoFounderandDirectorKenHomer,AdvisoryDirectorandBruceWaltuck,
Director(ret)atTheInstituteforOpenEconomicNetworks(IOpen)

Civic Forums1 are aplatformfornewexperiencesincivicengagement.Forumsaremost

effective as weekly, programmed forums gathering business, civic, government, and
academic leaders in guided, open discussions focused on information sharing and
knowledge exchange for the purpose of building networks and community for
transformativeenterprisecollaboration.

Civic Space the civic space occurs at the lateral intersections of social and economic
complexity, and is the most volatile, opportunistic situation for transformative innovation
to occur. It appears as the area outside the four walls of any organization, comprised of
leaders in academia, civic, business, and government with equal chance to be affected by
disruptivechange.

Civic Insight Library is a collection ofsearchableinterviews,stories,conversations,and

transcriptions in multimedia format begun as a pilot in 2009. Civic leaders have
contributed over 100 interviews, nearly fifty conversations with over 1000 voices
participating, and over 150 hours of content to IOpen research. Interviews share civic
leader insights, stories of innovation, and priorities through the lens of the Innovation
Framework.

Collaboration istheabilitytoworktogether towardagoallargerthanwhatiscapableby

any one member individually. Collaboration in OSED is accelerated by conversations
networks, collaborative leadership and a process called, Strategic Doing a simple,
disciplinedprocessofmovingideastoactionquickly.

Collaborative Community is a networked, cobranded, thematic community that shares

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information, knowledge, talent, and resources for projects focused on a social and/or
economic opportunity. Collaborative communities often result from Civic Forum
conversations focused on a next stepinitiative,sustainingandamplifyingactivitybetween
facetofacemeetingsandwhoremainlooselyconnectedtoeachother.

Convener Civic Forums are convened by colleges, universities, and libraries places
associated with civility, culture, knowledge, and research. Institutions are stewards of
previously gifted industrial economy assetsthatincludebuildings,administrationsystems,
parking, cultural artifacts, research andknowledge,intergenerationalactivity,curriculum,
projectworkspaces,technologyandInternetaccess.

Connector is a person who, acting as an intermediary, connects people who may or

maynotknoweachotherviaemailintroductionand/orfacetofaceformutualbenefit.

Creative Commons License let people distribute their work under specificconditions.It
is increasingly valuable to address accountability in collaboration and multiple, varying,
degreesofsharingandcocreatingacrossindustries.IOpenpublishesallcontentunderthe
Creative Commons License with Attribution back to the original source. You can learn
moreaboutCreativeCommonsathttp://creativecommons.org/

Economic Development is any activitythatleadstosustainablecommunities,including,

butnotlimitedto,urban,realestate,social,andcommunitydevelopment.

Enterprise Collaboration is the result of acting with others in an entrepreneurial way to

identify newinnovationopportunities,humantalent,and accessibleresourcesconnectedto
civic forum networks, and resulting in collaborative opportunities for business
development.

Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) industry is a meritocratic community of software

developers, their projects, and project teams whose combined enterprise comprises the
greater majority of operating systems servicing operations of the World Wide Web. The
F/OSS community offers lessons and deep value to civic leaders working inOpenSource
EconomicDevelopment.

Innovation Economy an economic model centered on knowledge, technology,

entrepreneurship,andinnovation.

Innovation Framework is a heuristic model for a balanced approach to investment in

OSED. The Framework is flexible enough to be applied to the health of an individual,
business, community, or region. The five areas are: (1) Brainpower (2) Innovation and
Entrepreneurial Networks (3) Quality, Connected Places(4)DialogueandInclusionand
(5)BrandingStories.

Link and leverage strategies guide how we invest our time and attention in civic

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networks. To leverage the value of networks, we begin by "connecting onoursimilarities

and innovating from our differences",ValdisKrebs,Orgnet.Bycontinuallyasking,"What
can we do together?" and "What are our next steps?" we explore how to recombine
interests and resources to innovate. In OSED, link and leverage strategies allow us to
connectcloselywithspecificintereststhroughnetworkstoleveragelargerindustrygoals.

IOpen process is designed for flat, open networked architectures that integrate
facetofaceactivityandinteractivetechnologytoattractandgrowhumanknowledge.

Networks humanrelationshipsexchangingknowledgeandinformationaboutinnovation,
talent,toolsandresources.

Civic Forum Process shares the creativity, communications, and collaboration

opportunitiesofplacebasedandonlineCivicForumactivity.

Network Weaving "A network weaver issomeonewhoisawareofthenetworksaround

them and explicitly works to make them healthier (more inclusive, bridging divides) and
they do this by connecting people strategically where there's potential for mutual benefit,
help people identify their passions, and serve as a catalyst for selforganizing groups."
JuneHolley,NetworkWeaver

Open Conversations are guided, public conversations that share knowledge and are
informed by civic leader insights into aspects of social and economic change and
innovation opportunities. Conversations inform us today, what people will do tomorrow.
IOpen conversations help people to make important cognitive shifts, such as thinking in
termsofnetworks,toenablethemtoutilizeinformationeffectively.

Open Source Economic Development Open Source Economic Development (OSED)is

a methodology, an inclusive system of practices and tools to advance transformative
enterprise opportunities positively affecting education, economic, and workforce
developmentincommunitiesandtheirregions.OSEDhappensintheCivicSpace.

Open, neutral spaces IOpen builds the open, neutral spaces for new experiences in
Civic Forum discussions that, over time, develop a reputation for trust, practices of
civility, and non partisan dialogue attracting higher levels of participation, conversation,
andcontribution.

Science of Collaboration IOpen activities seek to strengthen research in this emerging

discipline with activities associated with the Network of Civic Forums project. The
Science of Collaboration is lead by Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, Massachusetts
InstituteofTechnology(MIT).

Strategic Doing is a simple, but disciplined process based largely on the scientific
method of inquiry to connect civic leaders, ideas, and assets to enterprise initiatives.

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IOpen CoFounder, Ed Morrison, leads this practice at the Purdue Center for Regional
Development (@PCRD), the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Energy,
the U.S. Economic Development Administration, in collaboration with education,
economic,andworkforcedevelopmentleadersandtheirorganizations.

Transmedia communications IOpen publishes interviews and conversations across

media platforms in their entirety and as fragments for communityreuse,buildingdeeper,
richer storytelling to enhance meaningful network and community building. IOpen
communicationdevelopmentisguidedbytheworkofHenryJenkinsandothers.

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