Networked Improvement Communities at Work - Activities on CIM3-CWE sites
  Presented at
  Doug Engelbarts 80th Birthday Party
  Jan. 29, 2005 SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.
  ( v 1.10 )
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Supporting NICs and Co-evolution
  CIM Engineering, doing business as CIM3
  offering a hosted Collaborative Work Environment (CWE)
  to provide distributed collaboration support for NICs (Networked Improvement Communities) and to augment their co-evoluation.
  The CIM3-CWE is inspired by Doug Engelbarts Bootstrap vision and mission, as well as his OHS (Open Hyperdocumet System) DKR (Dynamic Knowledge Repository) concepts (see: References on the last slide).
  developed by integrating best-of-breed open source software components to form an Internet-based environment for virtual community- and team-work
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What Does CIM3 Do?
  Mission: to enable more effective distributed collaboration and virtual enterprise through bootstrapping collective intelligence over the Internet
  Doing business as:
    cim3.com, cim3.net and cim3.org
    cim3.com the business arm of the company
    cim3.net the collaborative work environments where client Communities of Practice and distributed team workspaces are hosted
    cim3.org the research arm, and holder of the companys open technology, content and other intellectual properties
  Products/Services: providing an ASP based Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) infrastructure that enables distributed project teams, virtual enterprise partners and communities of practice to work effectively over the Internet.
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Our Focus:Communities Distributed Teams
  People as an integral part of the system
  The Community Spectrum [Kaplan/iCohere]
    Affinity Networks
    Learning Communities
    Communities of Practice (CoPs)
    Project Teams
  We optimize our infrastructure, tools and process for CoPs and Distributed Project Teams
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Our Hosting Facility
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CIM3's Approach
  Augmentation - human-machine interaction - collaboration - communities
  Openness - we use open-source software comply with open standards as much as we can; we open-source our technology and content, and participate in open standards development
  Capitalizing on the Internet technology: taking it
    from the research and academic network
    to the current form as publishing media
    to Transactions and Web Services
    onto being its future as knowledge media in the Semantic Web
  Providing Enterprise performance, quality, robustness, security fault tolerance
  Providing platform neutrality: supporting machines on PCs, Macs, Linux, Unix,
  System built upon a knowledge architecture optimized for distributed teamwork
  Emphasis on effectiveness and strategic value - not technology
  Supporting entire user spectrum: from the everyday users to the power users
  While we do open-source work, we believe in properly remunerating our contributors, and in helping create a viable economic model for open work
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The Case for the Augmentation Approach in CWE
  We work towards providing a work environment for both humans and machines, optimizing between objectives like
    Supporting the expressiveness that humans need to convey their ideas, and the structure and rigor that machines need to properly interoperate - in essence, promoting both creativity and operational efficacy
    The ease-of-use that everyday users need, and the versatility and extensibility that power users need to take their work to the next level
    Securing the borders of the cwe to malicious intruders, while encouraging access, participation, sharing and the free flow of information and knowledge among members of the trusted communities
    Catering to the quality requirements of information and transaction processing systems and the realities of human behavior that just arent *
      Fully describable, fully online, fully informative, fully accurate, or fully responsible
  Our intent is to foster shared understanding and learning
  We are trying to spur innovation, as well as organic or emergent behavior in the user communities and teams
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The Collaborative Work Environment Features
  archived email forum
  Wiki : a read-and-write web
  document repository/file sharing workspace
  Community of Practice (CoP) portal
  Fine-grain access and linking (purple numbers)
  Full-text search
  voice conferencing
  screen/application sharing
  instant messaging
  real-time chat session
  Optimized for distributed community and teamwork
  Platform neutral
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Some Current CIM3 Projects Pilots
  eGov - sine, colab, gov-cwe
  Open standards development:
    [ontolog] Forum - an international forum on business ontologies
    NIST semantic distance workshop on interop
    OASIS-UBL TC work/collaboration support
  International Collaborative RD:
    Millennium Project - State of the Future Index System Development
    AC/UNU-Millennium Project - hosting and collaboration support
    Digital Art Ontology - dao
  Learning/Education:
    Aragon Robotics Team - art
    Western Region Robotics Forum - an adjunct to the FIRST Robotics Competition initiative
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http://sine.cim3.net
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http://interop.cim3.net/
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http://colab.cim3.net/
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http://gov-cwe.cim3.net
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A walk-through of the ontolog Community CWE
  The Discussion Forum
  The Wiki a read+write website
  The File Workspace/Repository
  Best Practices
    Archived discussions
    Project HomePages
    Sharing documents and Resources
    Augmented Conference Calls
    Virtual Presentations Workshops
    Knowledge sharing, re-use, access exploration
    An open collaborative work environment
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CWE use cases Archived Discussions
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CWE use cases wiki augmented meetings calls
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CWE use cases shared document repository
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CWE use cases collective intelligence
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An Organizational Form that the CWE aims at supporting bringing us from collaboration to innovation by forging the Open Virtual Enterprises
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References
  Doug Engelbart's Bootstrap Vision and Mission
    "Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware" (June 1992)
  [ontolog-forum]: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/
  CWE Community: http://community.cim3.net
  CIM3 ASP Product/Pricing: Collaborative Work Environment Hosting
  More Information:
    CIM Engineering, Inc.
    Contact author: Peter Yim at CIM3
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