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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Charlie,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The “platform for collaboration” you speak of seems more an issue of effectively organizing ourselves so that we can parcel out the work. We need to organize
and focus if we are to be effective on a global scale, something the mega-corporations consuming us are quite effectively lobbying at in achieving their government subsidies, tax breaks and off-shoring of profits and labor.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">To my way of thinking, we have a platform for collaboration. All of the ‘sustainable Earth’ solutions, at the brass-tack level have a geospatial context. That
is speaking of solutions beyond the politics needed to better manage corporate greed, and their purely profit-based priority, one that has no interest in societal benefit, sustainable living or our children’s well-being. When four guys providing no societal
benefit make more than all the kindergarten teachers of America combined, teachers who provide huge societal benefit, we have a problem,
</span><a href="http://jimhightower.com/node/8729"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://jimhightower.com/node/8729</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">WebWorldWind is one platform where we can add functionalities we can all share. Functionalities we all need, ones that will help us manage ourselves wisely.
The concept for this kind of platform, one that will bring the world closer together in solving mutual Earth management problems, is the OpenCitySmart design
</span><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We must pursue with gusto, ways for sustainable living! And we must apply far more resources to a world-class education for our children and ourselves. The
shrinking world we are passing to the future, a world attendant with serious global-scale problems, is a danger to all. The paradigm of ‘doing more with less’ was never more important than now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yes, Climate Colab is a step, I hope a good one. We must begin doing all of these things,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1302401"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1302401</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Patrick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">http://webworldwind.org/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(650) 604-5656 (office)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(650) 269-2788 (cell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ica-osgeo-labs [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Charles Schweik<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 1, 2015 4:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ica-osgeo-labs] Climate Colab - a model for us?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was at a Commons-Based Peer Production workshop on Friday and a presentation talked about <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://climatecolab.org/">http://climatecolab.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is an interesting example of where proposals are being shared and remixed. A possible model for us. Not sure how we get a platform for collaboration, but an interesting model -- the first of its kind that I've seen.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Charlie<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Charlie Schweik<br>
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Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Personal website: <a href="http://people.umass.edu/cschweik" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Publications: <a href="http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/" target="_blank">http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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