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Civic Wisdom Library
Written by Betsey MerkelCo-Founder and Director, I-OpenJuly 2010 Updated Mar 2011“People will say today what they will do tomorrow” - Peter Gloor,Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective IntelligenceThe Civic Wisdom Library is a public archive of interviews andbroadcast conversations contributed to I-Open by business leaders.Knowledge is organized by innovation investment categories andindustry topics.Civic leaders began contributing interviews in 2003 in preparation for leading Tuesdays@REI civic forums convened at Case WesternReserve University. Interviews were not formally archived andrecorded until 2008.I-Open’s Wisdom Library archives the video interviews of nearly 100entrepreneurs in industries such as energy, health care, andtechnology. Civic leaders discuss their work through the lens of theInnovation Framework, a heuristic model of investment in OpenSource Economic Development. The Framework aligns sharedvalues of creativity, collaboration, and enterprise affecting education,economic, and workforce development.The Library also contains over 100 public broadcast conversationsfocused on transformational topics in Open Source EconomicDevelopment. Conversations engage regional and global participants
 
 
Copyright 2011 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open EconomicNetworks (I-Open)
2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: http://i-open.posterous.com/
 
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via live streaming broadcast. Topics range from green jobs andworkforce development to the economic contributions of women tothriving cities.
I-Open publishes
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Individual interviews – the insights and innovations of business,government, academic and civic leaders
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Conversations – open guided conversations focused onpowerful topics affecting communities and regions
I-Open interviews
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Help people share ideas
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Inform public and private investment
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Build local to global connectivity
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Offer a systemic view of economic development
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Are foundation building to the I-Open Civic Forum process
Contributors
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Connect with leaders they would not ordinarily know
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Engage with leaders actively changing the world
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Are re-invigorated with a new sense of connectedness
Interview and conversation research
 
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Shares industry insights
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Reports on cross discipline discoveries
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Senses social and economic shifts
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Updates criteria and metrics for enterprise development
Who is research data useful to?
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Business, government, academic and civic leaders
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Entrepreneurs seeking collaborating partners
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Foundation, Venture capitalists and investors
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Economic development professionals, interns & students
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Research analyst companies
 
 
Copyright 2011 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open EconomicNetworks (I-Open)
2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118 Phone: 216-220-0172 Web: http://i-open.posterous.com/
 
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