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First Collaboratory

We are building a prototype for a networked Collaboratory in my dining room, using parts we purchased on E-Bay and in local stores. When finished it will be capable of producing broadcast quality Television and Radio together with companion web sites featuring streaming video and audio. We are in the process of creating distributed networked teams to demonstrate the creation of content for public television, radio and broadband internet.

In the near future we will publish a "how we did it" manual at SalsaNet and start a dialogue on community production of radio and television.

This experimental Collaboratory is designed to serve as a model for:

1. A shared (synchronous and asynchronous) interactive set of inexpensive tools and methods for the retrieval, visualization, and sharing of information
2. A decentralized think tank dedicated to the development of advanced information technologies to test collaborative solutions of community issues
3. An ADVENTURE in the creation and distribution of information and its transformation into KNOWLEDGE.

The Collaboratory

• Integrates communications technologies to create essential building blocks for a smart region
• Leverages the power of networked computers, public databases, the Internet, public radio and television and broadband streaming.
• Augments the political decision making process by raising the level of public dialogue to stimulate socially responsible action
• Networks learning communities to provide an integrated virtual workspace so that people using enhanced communications can understand issues, provide input, and create tools for community projects.
• Keeps a record of the collaborative process to so that people can see how we did it.

Uses the web as a medium of interactive communication for

• Virtual Town Hall Meetings
• Neighborhood and Regional Revitalization Masterplans
• Education Initiatives
• Mentoring Circles
• Youth Media Projects
• Health and Wellness Exchange
• Entrepreneurial Strategies

A Collaboratory starts with discussion and ends with mutually agreed upon solutions. Each Collaboratory provides a place and a process where a shared vision to be transformed into mass media and shared. Put a lot of these around the region and we can invent the future.

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