Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Collaboration
Oh, to have a good DKR of my own.
I forwarded a message about the Alliance here:
http://www.bootstrap.org/lists/ba-ohs-talk/0111/msg00023.html (01)
Jack
At 10:15 AM 5/16/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>While reading a new paper on collaboration, I discovered the Alliance to
>Advance the Understanding of Collaboratories
>http://www.scienceofcollaboratories.org/html/AboutSOC/OrganizationalPartici
>p ants.html
>
>And, while roaming that site, discovered the book
>_Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology_
>http://www.erlbaum.com/Books/searchintro/BookDetailscvr.cfm?ISBN=0-8058-3403-6
>(Price $185, discounted to $85, Amazon price $185, one used for $70)
>
>"The National Science Foundation funded the first Coordination Theory and
>Collaboration Technology initiative to look at systems that support
>collaborations in business and elsewhere. This book explores the global
>revolution in human interconnectedness. It will discuss the various
>collaborative workgroups and their use in technology. The initiative
>focuses on processes of coordination and cooperation among autonomous
>units in human systems, in computer and communication systems, and in
>hybrid organizations of both systems. This initiative is motivated by
>three scientific issues which have been the focus of separate research
>efforts, but which may benefit from collaborative research. The first is
>the effort to discover the principles underlying how people collaborate
>and coordinate work efficiently and productively in environments
>characterized by a high degree of decentralized computation and decision
>making. The second is to gain a better fundamental understanding of the
>structure and outputs of organizations, industries, and markets which
>incorporate sophisticated, decentralized information and communications
>technology as an important component of their operations. The third is to
>understand problems of coordination in decentralized or open computer systems." (02)