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[yak@collab] Re: collaboration and coevolution

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From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:18:01 -0800
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Really nicely said, Dorai.    (01)

Dorai Thodla wrote:
> 
> Most of you who worked with Doug already know what I am going to say.
> 
> Collaboration - The act of actively sharing knowledge/work to achieve
> common goals.
> Co-evolution - I heard it first from Doug Engelbart. According to Doug,
> co-evolution is the process of evolving both humans capabilities and
> tool capabilities. Humans make tools. Tools augment humans. Augmented
> humans make better tools and so on. It is the cycle of innovation that
> is fostered by thinking, inventing, using, improving and thinking about
> improving.
> 
> Where is the intersection?
> - Collaboration implies teams sharing tools and work products and moving
> towards their common purpose more effectively
> - Setting up improvement communities to improve how they can collaborate
> - Developing tools for improvement
> 
> There are a couple of related terms:
> 
> CODIAK - Concurrent Development and Improvement and Application of
> Knowledge (Doug again) is a process of the collaboration-co-evolution
> cycle.
> 
> One of the common goals may be to improve the collective IQ of a
> group/community/team. Collective IQ is a Doug term again. I have always
> been fascinated by it. While intuitively, I can relate to it, I am not
> sure how to express it. That is certainly worth a dialog on its own.
> 
> -- Dorai    (02)

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