Several pre-conference events will be happening on June 15th, that conference attendees can register for. See below.
Symposium: Sustaining the World’s Commons with a Standard for Self-Governance Skills - June 15th, 9am - 5pm
– Organized by
Cecile Green of RoundSky Solutions and
Seth Frey, University of California, Davis
Registration fees
$70 USD for senior attendees (professionals, faculty at all levels)
$0 USD for junior contributors (early career network, students)
This one-day working symposium brings together practitioners and scholars who are interested in how members of a commons develop self-governance capacity. We are developing a standard for unifying research and training in the basic skills that any member of a global commons—everyone—needs in order to contribute to highly effective self-governance. With this standard, trainers and researchers in commons stewardship, shared leadership, collaborative management, and cooperative business can organize, collaborate, and coordinate their research and training.
This convening of aligned stakeholders around a governance commons aims to increase collaboration between projects, toward tools and infrastructure for collaboration. It is grounded in the recognition that an ecology of practices for effective self-governance is itself a commons and as such needs governing as a commons by:
* synthesizing our learning and research into an integrated operating system of best practices for self-organization (orgware) for offline and online use; and
* publishing this structured methodology that integrates our diverse efforts while honoring our sovereignty; and
* implementing the system via a coordinative platform that enables global coordination in service of a thriving planet; and
* evolving the operating system/orgware through using the tools in the commons and by conducting further research.
As experienced organizers, researchers, and technologists, we have converged on the need for an increase in coherence that an integration of research and practice could generate—better orgware. By articulating open standards into a streamlined coordinative platform, we will facilitate better training and more meaningful social connections across existing platforms and protocols.
Potential participants can feel free to email the organizers (sethfrey@ucdavis.edu, cecile.m.green@roundskysolutions.com). We encourage anyone interested in the goals of the standards project, and any experience in the practice, teaching, or study of trainings for commons stewardship, shared leadership, collaborative management, and cooperative business.
