Feeling a little.. boxed in?
Let's come together, make sense of the situation and help each other.
These resources are part of Edgeryders work on the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021.
When a crisis hits, we look for systems of support & collaboration that go beyond the status quo.
On this page we have gathered together crucial resources, tools and community projects that can form an essential support system for your work life in a time of crisis.
We have experienced community managers to help you..
- đź’¬ Find the right conversations
- đź“ť Grow your professional network
- âš’ Build new income opportunities
But we can help you find the right person. Here are our most recently active members.
Current
Learning Resources
Right now our priority is mobilisation around the Covid19 crisis response.
We predict that this pandemic will have a lasting impact on how we all work. Thriving in the new landscape means looking beyond the next fancy tool. It requires a conscious effort to get socialised in the new digital collaboration contexts available to us.
In 2019 Edgeryders produced a comprehensive manual for Distributed Collaboration with Europe’s largest public private partnership for climate innovation.
Now we are creating an online course to cover the essentials of remote work and collaboration
What you'll learn
These lessons and learning materials will provide a mix of concrete examples, recommendations and general guidelines for changing work culture.
If you think you need this write to kaja@edgeryders.eu or call us at +32485079163
Update! Edgeryders is now offering a service to get organizations started (or upgraded) with distributed collaboration.
academy
Community Building & Management
Community is a word with many definitions. 'Online community' means different things to different people too. What we mean in this toolkit is a collection of people, joined together mainly through an networked asynchronous computer platform, in which the participants develop various individual & group relationships in ways that make sense to them, either personally, professionally or both.
It achieves its community status through the weaving of those relationships, and its sense of community is held in common by the will of the participants themselves. A true measure of it being a real community is if the people using it consider themselves to be part of a real community, even though most interactions take place in a virtual space.
At its heart, an online community is all about relationships. It is well proven that it is possible for people to experience authentic depth in these relationships, even when chiefly communicating via networked computers.
Build Impact + Income
The Open Collective Intelligence Lab is a Peer to Peer online incubator to support entrepreneurs working for positive impact on people and planet.
Who the program is for
Project leaders: have an idea for a potentially self-sustaining project/ social enterprise/venture
- are in the process of validating their ideas
- are looking for mentors, partners or any kind of support
- willing to have shareholders, and commit to start new entreprises
Project contributors: Do not have a project/venture idea
- Want to invest some time into building new paths to generate income for themselves
- Want to develop new skills
- Want to grow their professional network
Problem owners: have a problem that they care about
- Want to be involved in developing and testing solutions to the problem
- have some kind of leadership role in a context where the problem is very present
- are willing to invest financial or nonfinancial resources into self-sustaining solutions that come out of the incubator
Write to ocilab@edgeryders.eu for more information about the program & partnership enquiries
Impact Strategy
A dense network of co-created solutions to the big issues
Our theory of change is building dense networks around people trying to tackle messy social-ecological, economic and political challenges. Having a dense network around you is one of the hallmarks of social capital, and gives you access to expertise, resources, skill sharing and financing. In a dense network, there are many ways for you to get from one point to another. A key challenge here is for people with aligned interests to find each other, and as a community we’re out to solve just that.
We are Edgeryders
And we are listening.
We are collecting your stories to better understand how we can level up impact of our efforts to fix socialecological, economic, and political challenges. We want to know what you have to say, and we want others to connect and collaborate with you.
This is how it works.
Edgeryders is a community of individuals from different walks of life in 80 + countries. Members have been sharing their stories, their ideas, their problems, and their solutions since 2013. All these posts together are what we call our "collective intelligence".
Our data analysis team uses open source methodologies and technologies to create interactive visualisations of the conversations as they evolve. The visualisations make it easier for everyone to find and connect across common interests and new insights.
This is all financed through revenue from research grants, consultancy and training for other organisations.
Contact the organisation
The best way to learn more about Edgeryders research, technologies or services is a video or phone call. To schedule an appointment, write to kaja@edgeryders.eu
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Join the community
Why share your journey?
What is a burning question that drives your work? How did you get started and what hurdles have you met along the way? Which doubts do you have about the work you are doing and the path forward? What kind of support would you like to offer others traveling a similar path?
By sharing your story on our community forum you enable others to connect you with people, conversations, opportunities relevant to who you are and the next phases of your journey
Terms of Participation & Privacy Policy
The Edgeryders online platform and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word "better" has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These Community Guidelines are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our Terms of Service.