The hi:project launches today. It's a synthesis of many of the things I care about, from the original decentralizing visions for the Internet and Web, the aspiration that digital technologies can help people relate to each other better and understand each other better, and the idea that we might connect to each other without wondering who's monitoring our every action.
I believe that making all variety of organization more agile, more valuable, more useful starts by empowering all the individuals that play a role in the organization's success. The creation of mutual value begins with acquiring self-knowledge and mutual understanding to effect mutual influence, and this is exemplified by the question that concludes Attenzi - a social business story:
Do you help all the individuals associated with your organization (employees, customers, partners, suppliers, shareholders, etc.) build worthwhile relationships with each other and others, coalescing by need and desire, knowledge and capability and shared values, to create shared value?
Are we really going to answer this question satisfactorily by having everyone interface with the digital world similarly? By having them come to each machine in turn than have the machines come to them? I think not.
Introducing the hi:project. I hope you'll join in.
jimscarver says:
Wow! I subscribe to all the concepts, principles and values of the HI:project and will borrow them all for the embrionic Divvy platform collaboration which I hope the HI:project will become part of. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m0xj4Euclr5Q56Dv0IgDWmRQhWvBZRd14yjwvlToqrs/edit#heading=h.xy0tq6jx7fls
I tried to join the HI:project at http://hi-project.org/join-hiproject/ but got an SMTP error. I tried a couple different working email addresses.
2 June 2016 — 7:19 pm
Philip says:
Thanks Jim for your support and for pointing out this site bug. We'll take a look asap.
2 June 2016 — 8:48 pm