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    Dimitar Tchurovsky’s Google Knol titled the ‘Global Virtual Brain and Mind Project’ is a good example of this. (Tchurovsky, 2009) He cites the conflicts of interests, media manipulations, bribery and the influence industry as barriers to a genuine global consensus. The response is a “worldwide social network of self-selected people resembling human brain and mind, who will collaborate in attempt to solve social problems.”

    The associating of collaboration and global conscious is natural, as collaboration is central to our concept of community, and the global mind can be seen as an extension of community. We see much the same language as that used to describe the global mind., for example, “people inspired to create healthy communities cross pollinate ideas, connect & exchange stories that harness our collective wisdom.” (McCarthy) These examples are typical; they could be multiplied almost indefinitely.

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    • his is a common refrain. It expresses the idea that the cloud enables us to work together, to collaborate, to forge a new consensus. The cloud, in other words, reinforces the ways with which we have attempted hitherto to organize ourselves. The divisiveness, the factionalism, the disputes and conflicts that have blocked our efforts in the past are effectively overcome using the new technology.


      Dimitar Tchurovsky’s Google Knol titled the ‘Global Virtual Brain and Mind Project’ is a good example of this. (Tchurovsky, 2009) He cites the conflicts of interests, media manipulations, bribery and the influence industry as barriers to a genuine global consensus. The response is a “worldwide social network of self-selected people resembling human brain and mind, who will collaborate in attempt to solve social problems.”


      The associating of collaboration and global conscious is natural, as collaboration is central to our concept of community, and the global mind can be seen as an extension of community. We see much the same language as that used to describe the global mind., for example, “people inspired to create healthy communities cross pollinate ideas, connect & exchange stories that harness our collective wisdom.” (McCarthy) These examples are typical; they could be multiplied almost indefinitely.

    • What distinguishes collaboration from these other forms of organization is a commonality of understanding or purpose. This theme permeates writing on the subject. Schrage calls collaboration “an act of shared creation and/or shared discovery” (Schrage, 1990, p. 6) Senge talks about the creation of a shared vision. (Senge, 1994)


      In learning communities, as well, we see commonality or shared vision as central to the creation of a learning community. The idea that learning is social in nature has been a recurring theme in education, from Dewey to Brown & Duguid. Learning communities, write Kilpatrick, Barrett, & Jones, “are operationalised through collaboration, cooperation, and/or partnerships. The shared goals are achieved through working together and potentially building or creating new knowledge.” (Kilpatrick, Barrett, & Jones, 2003)

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