Innovation

• Innovating around a platform can feel restrictive
• building the conceptional warehouses
  • learn process is to identify narrative & document like the process of what needs to happen to an article to publish it
• the concept of building a collaborative space

• good facilitation is huge is pulling innovation
  • sometimes need to bring people out
  • neutral in that they can identify where the energy is & not relate to the hierarchy

• code is policy
  • start from a policy statement & then build code on top of that
  • innovation happens within government structure & within capital structure... whether you know it or not
  • BREAK THAT
  • most revenue models are built on extractive economics – to break it – think of the users as the owners & provide value to them

• visual things help with creativity
• sometimes its about talking something until its death
• sometimes its about thinking through something
• sometimes its about playing music to get the brain to a different place
• it is all about getting yourself unstuck

collaborating around innovation

• create space? brainstorm seperately & then pull it together?
• space to break things

Leola Lab

• weekly meetings to collaborate
• break stuff – no shame is not succeeding, incouraged to not be afraid to fail, & others are encouraged to pick up and try different things
• work for the week and then come back together
• build ideas up
• show up because people want to build stuff
• have the right people there
• interest is the main motivating factor to get people involved
  • a place where they can connect with other very talented people to work on things they couldn't do on their own
  • tackle BIG projects and issues that people are EXCITED about

when you take time and capital out, it flattens hierarchy

• sometimes even just participating in collaboration is innovative

• sometimes need lots of pressure, from bottom and top to get people to collaborate – once they are there & collaborating people tend to really respond to that

• it can be difficult to keep up collaboration, trust, checking in in honest ways with a distributed team – time spent together is about bonding and building relationship

Shuttleworth Foundation – Ubuntu - “Out of Community”

Innovation

• passion, excitement, willingness to put energy into something
• safe space to experiment, fail, try things, do different than the norm
• forcing function to make people come together, work together, see people as equal, trust everyone

• change of environment can help facilitate innovation