Related Initiatives
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Following is a sampling of initiatives that align with our vision and mission, and with Our Initiatives.
Preserving Historic Legacy
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Preserving and making broadly accessible the considerable collection of artifacts from a life's work.
See our own Engelbart Archive Initiative for background.
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Buckminster Fuller
- home of the R. Buckminster Fuller Collection -- Architect, Systems Theorist, Designer, and Inventor.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
- homebase for the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, with stories and virtual exhibits, plus links to national repositories with significant holdings of Frank Lloyd Wright collections, architectural drawings, reference materials, and manuscripts collections.
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Harold "Doc" Edgerton
- home of The Edgerton Digital Collections (EDC) Project, which celebrates the spirit of a great visionary pioneer, Harold 'Doc' Edgerton, inventor, entrepreneur, explorer and beloved MIT professor.
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MouseSite
- showcasing the early work of Doug Engelbart and team, as told through the story of their 1968 Demo. Created in 1997 by Stanford Libraries Special Collections using Engelbart's archives curated there, including papers, reports, photos, and the original film of the 1968 demo in three reels. This represents one of the earliest such digital archive projects. Read the story of creating the MouseSite by Principal Investigator Tim Lenoir.
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Bootstrapping the Future
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Initiatives pursuing some key alignment with Doug Engelbart's Big Idea, or Unfinished Revolution, and/or working to collectively inspire and learn to put transformational strategies such as Bootstrapping Brilliance, Design Thinking, Lean Enterprise, Exponential Organization, Lean Startup, Agile, etc. to practice, boosting our collective effectiveness and advancing our collective knowledge of best practices and enabling technology.
See our Call to Action and Your Bootstrapping Brilliance Toolkit for reference, our Community Showcase for case examples that relate directly to our initiatives.
Leveraging Collective Intelligence
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Innovation Strategy
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- IDEO – a design consultancy applying Design Thinking in business and non-profit world. IDEO.com working with corporations to create positive impact through human-centered design. IDEO.org is a non-profit design studio whose mission to " design products and services alongside organizations that are committed to creating a more just and inclusive world."
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- Lean Enterprise Institute - non-profit whose mission to make things better through lean thinking and practice. They employ a collaborative approach with their clientele, in their workshops, coaching, and learning networks, including their Lean Global Network. See their About Us page for background and resources.
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- Lean Startup - led by Eric Ries – entrepreneur, instigator, consultant and author whose NY Times bestseller Lean Startup has sold over a million books in more than 30 language – has become a center of gravity for the Lean Startup movement, community, and conferences. Check out Resource Links and Christina Engelbart's article Going ‘Lean’ is strategic for any organization.
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- Logitech - led by Bracken Darrell, is a Design Thinking company, from how they design and iterate their products, their process, and even their design strategy – his "design everything" approach [think Engelbart's "improve the way we improve"]. Since he came on board in 2012, Logitech's profitability has quadrupled, and the company has won over 100 Design awards. See his article Design ... Everything
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- Outside Innovation - Patty Seybold's blog on customer-centric innovation. Read the full treatment in Patty's excellent book Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-design Your Company's Future. See excerpts in The Outside Innovation Imperative and Outside Innovation. [Note: This practice provides a great example of cultivating stakeholder participation, one of the innovation accelerators built in to our Bootstrapping Innovation strategy.] See also Patty's writings on the topic: How these rural initiatives in Uganda are already meeting the Engelbart Challenge, A Commitment to Complete the Work of Augmenting Human Intelligence, and MORE.
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- Singularity University - led by Salim Ismail with co-founders Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil, is "a global learning and innovation community using exponential technologies to tackle the world’s biggest challenges and build a better future for all". See their Amazon best-seller Exponential Organizations and article What Is An Exponential Organization? for starters.
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Enabling Technology
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- See our Technology Showcase for some examples that relate directly to our initiatives, and OHS-Like Tools for analysis.
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Dialog Mapping Tools
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Dynamic Land, led by Bret Victor, Founding Director, a non-profit whose mission is "to incubate a humane dynamic medium
whose full power is accessible to all people.".
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- Human Computation Institute, led by Pietro Michelucci, Founding Director, a nonprofit in the crowd-sourcing arena, "leveraging the complementary strengths of networked humans and participatory computing for the betterment of society."
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- Hypothes.is, led by Dan Whaley, Founding Director, the hypothes.is non-profit emerged out of the Open Annotation initiative, offering open-source annotation tools for use anywhere on the web.
See Christina Engelbart's blog post Game Changer: Hypothes.is announces ‘direct linking’ across the web.
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- IT Day Japan, spearheaded by Toshihiro Takagi, former editor of “MACLIFE” and CEO of Creation Inc. Launched Dec 9, 2018 on the 50th anniversary of Doug's great Demo as an annual event and ongoing initiative “for you who want to change the world” to consider urgent global issues needing holistic solutions.
See Christina Engelbart's blog post IT Day Japan – solving urgent global issues.
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- MIT Media Lab, Hiroshi Ishii, Associate Director – see especially the Tangible Media Lab he leads.
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Global Improvement Communities
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- United Nations - Sustainable Development Goals
- The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. The SDGs build on decades of work by countries and the UN, including the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. See especially goals #16 and #17 to promote frameworks for cooperation and accelerators to more urgently advance and scale the progress in the other goals.
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- Club de Madrid - this body of emeritus world leaders acts to strengthen democratic leadership and institutional capacity to better tackle major global challenges.
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More Improvement Communities
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- See our Community Showcase for some case examples that relate directly to our initiatives, and Your Bootstrapping-Brilliance Toolkit for background and pointers.
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- C Community and Swimy NIC - joint activities spearheaded by Hirohide Yamada in Japan. "Swimy is a Networked Improvement Community to augment our
thought behind our work by exchanging ideas in the spirit of making
the world a better place to live." [see our About NICs page] Swimy NIC has been active for about 10 years with about 200 individual members, and derives its name from the fairy tale Swimmy, by Leo Lionni, which describes a collective, cooperative approach to solving large, complex problems.
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