The Power of Pull

The whole point of this platform (or 'process, protocol, interface for pulling people, knowledge, tools and more together') is to create a proximity for 'things' to happen such as John Hagel describes in 'The Power of Pull' or Geoffrey West in his various talks about "Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations and People Always Die, and Life Gets Faster". The critical generative process of action that we would like to create here is based on the fact of pulling the people, solutions, ideas, tools into a virtual space where they will be visible as possibilities to those who need, want and can act towards a specific issue, taking advantage of combined density, diversity and synchronicity of intent for things to emerge.

Here's a design map of the pieces and the process

The internet should be able to achieve this 'on its own'. The idea utlimately is to get objects on the internet to 'find each other'. For the moment it needs a little help...

This project is distinct from Debategraph, but will benefit from David Price's expertise in polarized debate moderation and complex argumentative data curation. It provides the people dynamic layer that enables to pull together by designation/nomination/sommation (please pick the right word) social actors who are believed to be part of the solution, the problem or the facilitation process, and provide the -inspiration, empowerment and enablement- tools to advance the issue. The idea is to bring a maximum of possibilities into the radar of those who have the will to influence action, to providing people at any level with a capability to 'read' their realities for change and act according to their understanding and place in the action space. And this includes understanding and making use of the information in all its nuance and complexity, in practice on the field and politically. In this respect, the work of Giorgio Bertini who commented here and others -your included- on learning, action and pulling networks together will be essential.