Wolf Richter

I realized that I have neglected blogging quite a bit recently. There is no excuse for that, but there is an explanation: Last week we finally presented the findings of the joint project between the OII and the McKinsey Technology Initiative to an audience of academics and invited executives from all over Europe. Coordinating a team of 15 researchers and numerous McKinsey consultants spread out across three continents and 5 time zones was indeed a challenge: fun, but demanding!

The workshop was preceded by a public lecture the day before at the Said Business School featuring Distributed Problem Solving experts Scott Page (Michigan), Karim Lakhani (HBS), and John Wilbanks (Science Commons), and the OII’s own Paul David as a moderator. The lecture is now available as a webcast on the OII’s website in case you missed the show.

We will also publish shortly the set of case studies the team conducted on current distributed problem solving networks like Sermo, Digg, a high energy physics experiment at Cern called Atlas, the community behind Firefox, Open Content Film production, and several others. If you are interested in the project or the findings, check the project’s webpage, which should be updated soon and will contain the most recent documents on the topic.

To spread the word/k, Tobias Escher and I will participate in an upcoming workshop organized by OpenDemocracy on “Credibility in the New News” in London and contribute our findings from the Online News Aggregator case study, which we drove together with our colleague David Bray from Emory University (and who also maintains a witty blog on his pet topic: knowledge ecosystems).

During the upcoming OII excursion to Berlin we will present yet another paper based on the News Aggregator case study at the Re:Publica conference, but more on this will follow in one of the next blog posts…