Transition: LindaNowakowski
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Background - Why is this board being selected?
The board will make the decisions related to how and where omidyar.net community members will continue their good work after omidyar.net is archived. Omidyar Network will work with the members of the board to help with matters related to this community transition. Here's more information about the Board Role.
Nomination process
- You must nominate yourself to be considered. (NOTE: Any omidyar.net member is eligible to run for the board.)
- Nominate yourself by creating your own self-named workspace in the Transition group and link to it - and to your profile - in the table below. This workspace is where you can help people understand why they should vote for you. Some of the issues you may want to address on your page include:
- Why you? What's the perspective you'd bring to the board?
- How will you seek input from the rest of the community to make decisions?
- Should the current community move as a whole or as multiple sub-communities?
- What platform(s) do you recommend people use?
- Do you have views on how future communities should be governed?
- Nominations must be made by midnight (Pacific time) on July 31st.
- Please contribute to a supportive process and help make sure any criticism is constructive.
Nominee Group Affiliations:
Groups I own
- This is a personal discussion group I have used recently for discussions regarding my PhD work.
- This is a group I have tried to provide assistance to and where I can keep a pulse on what is particularly going on with the children's projects in Gulu that might impinge on my PhD Research work there.
- I am 110% behind assisting people in this community to have an opportunity to have high bandwidth interactions face-to-face and have worked in this group particularly in assisting in the planning of the Chicago 2006 conference and the Uganda 2007 conference. I have actively worked toward providing scholarship funds for attendance at these conference and worked to set up an ongoing community scholarship fund.
- This group works on helping the LiA community members get micro-financing and I have worked with this group to edit loans for presentation to KIVA.
- The formation of resettlement village for child-headed households in Gulu based on a sufficiency economy model developed here in Thailand is my research project for my PhD work. That is part of what goes on in this group.
- A group that has become pretty inactive but was set up to try to work on ways to open communication lines for reformation of the Thai educational system. The project was hampered in this space because of language insecurity and people being overwhelmed by the navigation problems and technical challenges.
- Another attempt to build a supportive online space for Thai projects on the ground. Pretty much faced the same problems as Thai Educational Reform. There is one group there that is still active though - Dance Labs.
- This is a group that I believe is on hold but not defunct. It got interrupted by a Military coup and my move to Ubon. It has generated one of the most complete lists of NGOs and shakers and movers in Thailand and it will get picked up again.
Groups I belong to
- My participation here has fallen off in the past couple of months because of personal real-life commitments (as my participation in the network as a whole has moved from cyberspace to face-to-face). David is doing a huge and amazing project and I will contribute as I can even in the post ONet Era (OE)
- I have worked in the past with Town Hall meetings and with ONTime (both of which have been sadly neglected recently)
- After the Uganda conference, my attention has moved dramatically to LiA. The real life community and what it is doing and the odds it is working against have moved me toward much real life action.
- It looks like I will be working with a group of students here in Ubon to open one of the first 3 Ned spaces in developing countries. It's an incredible concept and is sparking imaginations on the ground here.
- This amazing organization was one of the groups the the Q4 WDI team worked to fund. They are fighting important and challenging battles on the ground in Uganda and on a shoestring budget.
- Kind of obvious :-)
- This group was an incredibly unique use of this space and I hope that in any new platform there will be a space for this kind of project. This space, combined with an energetic and innovative TEACHER (that means special) opened the eyes of students at a time that could be very influential in their lives and the direction of the future. I am working on doing something similar here by James Davis's example.
Statement of Interest:
I am interested in seeing this transition take place with the least disruption particularly for the groups that are currently attempting to maximize the use of this space for collaborative work.
Working on projects that are spread out and include a large number of people who are remote to each other requires a special kind of space. Because of diverse cultures, language skills, and technical savvy of the people in these wide-flung groups, the new space needs to feel comfortable, welcoming, maybe even familiar and safe. It also needs to take into account the limited bandwidth that is available in most of the world. Those in developing countries can forget about this as they develop applications.
The following O.netizens support my nomination:
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Comments:
- Why you? What's the perspective you'd bring to the board?
- Of the people who have stepped forward so far, there is not a representative from the developing world. I think that I can offer the perspective of having experienced both sides.
- How will you seek input from the rest of the community to make decisions?
- I have already set up a poll and workspace trying to determine the most critical features that members think will be required for groups. I have a discussion on FaceBook as well. These tools we have here are proven to enable people to speak out and require someone who will vow to read the comments and organize them into useful form.
- Should the current community move as a whole or as multiple sub-communities?
- Ideally I would want to move the community intact if I have to move it at all. I think that in spite of all of it's problems, this community benefits from its diversity. But, if the group splits, which I think is likely, I think that all of the sub-groups will need to address how to cross-pollinate. I would hope that the board will look at a way to enable that perhaps through the development of a portal entry page.
- What platform(s) do you recommend people use?
- Given the time frame we have to work in, I think that the onet platform will work the best for those groups that have centered their activity in this space. There are other groups in the onet community that have already been working with other spaces and may find building out their own format will work better for them. I think one of the things that has proved to be a hurdle for me is having a community that works and has a visual identity and integrity. I know that there are hundreds of great tools out there to enable work on the net but if they all look different and don't feel like they belong together, I think that is a problem, particularly for less sophisticated users who, I have found, can feel lost if they jump off to a separate application.
- Do you have views on how future communities should be governed?
- The last year in my meat space has driven home to me the need to have open, transparent democratic governance. That does not, in my mind, mean rule of the masses but rather perhaps some kind of representative governance. I love consensus but it can be painfully slow and totally unrealistic for routine decisions that need to be made on the fly.
Page name: LindaNowakowski
Last editor: Page Trygstad (465)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:18:36 PDT
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