Un-breaking our social networks requires fundamentally different architectures than the defaults currently used to build most tools for coordination.
As the world gets more complex and connected, calls to coordinate increase. But why? What does coordination allow us to do together that we cannot do alone?
Myth: People at the top of any given company or power structure deserve to be there because they are somehow smarter and better than everyone else.
The science of ProSocial focuses on fostering social conditions where individual and group interests are integrated and balanced, such that cooperative behaviors are reinforced above selfish ones. Prosocial groups act as a single organism, rather than a collection of individuals.
Aimed at building more equitable and inclusive societies, the Omidyar Network supports ecosystems of collaboration focusing on systemic leverage points. Activities range from grantmaking, to research, to community building, all woven together with powerful storytelling.
For our event exploring how networks scale, we spoke with Jessie Huang, Jay Carmona, and our product strategist, Ana Jamborcic. We came away with three key principles to help a network grow: work out loud, uncover and celebrate invisible work, and create clear boundaries. Here are our takeaways.
We recently hosted an insightful conversation with three amazing network coordinators: Jia (Carol) Xu, Ph.D, Jay Carmona, and Lauren Hebert. We discussed relational resilience, the dreaded bottleneck position, and the party-like feeling you find in a healthy, engaged network. Here are our takeaways.
Seed funding for Socialroots is through a cooperative agreement with "America's Seed Fund", powered by the NSF (SBIR). This funding supports research on the technical and the very human challenges of communication, teaming, and leadership that define the hard problems of cross-group coordination.
We partner with nRhythm to implement a small part of their regenerative health index for healthy org and community design via our cross-group collaboration software.
