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Cairns is a web-based tool designed to connect people interested in finding collaborative and participatory ways of working.
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Short Description: Cairns is a web-based tool designed to connect people interested in finding collaborative and participatory ways of working.
What Problem Does It Solve?: It overcomes barriers to engaging in collective action.
How Does It Do That?: This open source too captures information about the way groups work together. Like a map, its unique visual interface allows participants to see what others are doing and to find and communicate with a community of practice. It also helps match those 'doing collaboration' to those studying and documenting participatory practices.
Why Is It Different?: Cairns is the first knowledge management tool to use visual interfaces to connect the community of collaborative practice.
Who Will Use It?: All groups engaged in collaborative or participatory ways of working and all those wishing to find people, methods, tools and groups working in collaborative and participatory ways.
Implementations: Pilot implementations include groups working in:
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