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Open Economy Principles
Includes empowering the periphery, connecting network nodes, leveraging self-interest, supporting self-directed work, and building transparency and trust.

Urban frontiers as innovation zones An open economy empowers innovation at the periphery—it allows individuals with local, tacit expertise to effect change on the whole system through locally appropriate solutions. MIT’s FabLab does this by bringing personal fabrication tools to rural India or remote Norway and helping residents innovate in ways that fit their distinct needs. Lightweight infrastructures will provide modular, flexible systems for urban social entrepreneurs, cutting-edge thinkers, and expert users to customize meaningful solutions to local problems that could be sources of innovation for educational districts. Technologies of cooperation leverage the open economy An emerging set of social technologies—from mobile computing and reputation systems to open, collective knowledge repositories and peer-to-peer production—is greatly expanding human capacity to cooperate. These technologies will drive experimentation with new forms of economic production, social organization, and civic governance. Specifically, cooperative technologies facilitate group formation, network building, transparency, aggregating distributed resources, and leveraging self-interest to create broader social value.

Resources:
- [GigaOm] Markey Opens Second Round of Net Neutrali
- Countless Exchanges in the Gift Economy: Toward a New Understanding of Transactions
- Ending Famine by Ignoring Experts
- Forum for Scientists and Science-Based Companies to Collaborate on Innovative Solutions
- I.B.M. Plan Ties Training and Accounts
- I.B.M. Plan Ties Training and Accounts
- MSNBC’s Participatory News Site, Newsvine
- One Laptop Per Child book & music drive and XO hac
- Open Source As a Signalling Device
- Planning Charitable Donations: Upcoming Seminar
- Smartmobby Responses to Blackboard Patent
- The Political Economy of Open Source Software
- Web Sites Tear Down That Wall

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Drivers   Drivers
The vertical side of the left column of the map. These are six categories driving all trends, hotspots and dilemmas. Click on the purple bar for a definition of that driver.
Impact areas   Impact Areas
The horizontal axis of the map. These are five key areas of activity where major trends are revealed from different perspectives. Click on the purple bar for a definition of that impact area.
Hotspots   Hotspots
These are key trends that we think have broad impact on education and often make good starting points for exploring the map.
Dilemmas   Dilemmas
These are issues that can't be solved with either/or thinking but require new strategies that go beyond simple problem solving.

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