Relevant Links
Creating a stigmergic system website that involves the co-operation of many people collaborating to provide information requires more than a knowledge of scripting and website design.
Below are links to some of the conceptual frameworks that have been applied in the latest "Crowd-sourced Info Towns" project.They are representative of many years of real life experience and the application of many fundamental, theoretical concepts from the worlds of science, biology, technology and finance.
Firstly, to be able to create effective communication strategies it is very useful to have an understanding as to how the brain has evolved to facilitate successful individual and group survival:
Why people have different brains.
Secondly, as the Internet is now the main source of information and used as a vehicle for human interaction, it is essential to have a clear understanding as to how the web is structured and how information is stored and accessed:
To appreciate the advantages of utilising the concept of stigmergy it necessary to use a biological way of thinking about information, systems, people and collaboration.
Information systems, people & cooperation.
To be able to survive and prosper in the world of the Internet, it is essential to know the difference between money and wealth and to be able to understand what they represent and how they can be created. It is necessary to be able to differentiate between zero-sum games and non-zero-sum games. It requires an understanding of risk. It is most importantly about being able to successfully compete for cooperation.
Success on the Internet invariably involves an appropriate communication strategy. One such strategy involves the use of crowd-sourcing
Crowd-sourcing as an effective communication strategy.
In the fast changing, highly competitive world of the Internet, planning and prediction are nigh on impossible. An unplanned, bottom-up approach is needed rather than a conventionally planned, top-down approach. To succeed, it is necessary to think in terms of small interacting modules, that change, evolve and grow.
Growing rather than planning a business.
Having to survive and prosper in the impossibly complex world of the Internet necessitates the need to understand complexity and how to cope with it:
Nobody can tell you how to create a successful business. If such advice were possible everybody in the world would have a successful business. However, there can be useful guidelines for strategies; particularly useful in dealing with the complexities, uncertainties, risks and competition encountered in trying to start up a business on the Internet:
Strategic considerations for a business start-up.
Everyone is limited to the amount of knowledge and experience they have personally acquired. Nobody can know everything so it stands to reason that everyone sees situations from a different viewpoint: shaped by their individual, limited knowledge. It should be realised then that there can be no authority on knowledge, knowledge is subjective and can only be valued by means of a collaborative process of the sharing of information and experiences: