TY - JOUR T1 - Applied Collaboration Studios: Transforming Complex Problems into Systems of Continuous Social Innovation JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Stephen Huddart A1 - Anil Patel AB - This paper asserts that the voluntary or social sector plays a pivotal role in generating and disseminating social innovations through collaboration with diverse partners. The authors explore the potential to engender a quantum shift in the sector's efficiency, reach, and impact through the combined use of open source technologies, social process tools and collaboration platforms. The objective is to contribute to a new generation of intelligent social systems, enabling an evolutionary recalibration of relationships among ourselves, our social and economic institutions, and the planet. As a means of integrating and disseminating the most promising approaches, the concept of Applied Collaboration Studios is proposed. Its primary activities would be: i) dissemination of open source technologies; ii) ongoing instruction and coaching in the use of social process tools; iii) the assembly and launch of multiple collaboration platforms; and iv) collaboration with other like initiatives to create ecologies of scale that inform and precipitate systems change toward greater resilience. The paper concludes with a reflection on the conditions necessary for such a project to come into being as an open source initiative, and an invitation to contribute to an ongoing discussion. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/268 IS - July 2009 U1 - J. W. McConnell Family Foundation Stephen Huddart is the Vice President of The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation in Montreal, and the Director of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) @ McConnell. U2 - Framework Foundation Anil Patel is the founder and Executive Director of the Framework Foundation in Toronto, originator of Timeraisers and the Civic Footprint. ER -