Global Collaboration Platform

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

To install & evolve existing proven collaborative tools into a platform designed to catalyze interactive project creation and leverage our community’s extraordinary knowledge, & skills.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

Dan Kimball: 40yr Tech Entrepreneur, ConceptNet Development. 

CoFounder of FreeDAO.io & Freeos.io 

Alex Thayer: 7yrs Full Stack Java Dev- HYPE Innovation Dev-Team,

Multinational Collaboration Platform Design

Michael Avis: 15yrs Director of HYPE Innovation Business Development

[GENERAL] Requested funds in USD.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

PROJECT VISION 

A Collaboration Platform is THE UNIQUE PLACE where

Future GREAT IDEAS and BEST PROPOSALS will be born.

Collaboration is the fulcrum for Successful Projects

What kind of on-line interactive environments 

will enable the scaling of global collaboration?

Can we cut cross the language barrier?

A Community truly works together when we can

• Engage in a fluid human centered interactive platform
• Contribute in our native language.
• Read in our own language, the contributions made in other languages.
• Crowd source community member skills and capabilities
• Organize community Intentions around collaborative principles
• Coordinate our collective actions
• Collaborate around project creation

A UNIQUE FEATURE 

This project will employ a Natural Language AI Solution that stores and retrieves words by their meaning, independent of the users native language. This “Semantic” storage is essential for global engagement across languages.

PROJECT PROPOSAL SUMMARY

To install, integrate, evaluate, research and engage the community in evolving a global interactive platform designed to provide Catalyst with a continuous community wide collaboration environment.

OBJECTIVES:

To provide an Collaboration Platform for Continuous Community Engagement:

• Collaboration over competition (empowering the community)
• Collection of community Intentions (setting well defined challenges)
• Refining of Problems and Solutions (collection and refinement of Ideas)
• Formulating Appropriate Engaged Teams (building great teams)
• Defining well formed organized projects (coordinating tasks,roadmaps, budgets & KPI's)
• Track projects, progress & impact (oversight and evaluation of results)

CORE GOAL: Establish an Integrated Catalyst Community Innovation Platform

1. Install suitable software tools...         HYPE Innovation, IdeaNote, Concept SDKs
2. Evaluate the use of language Semantics  CONCEPT-NET 
3. Integrate other useful/compatible tools   Miro-Audio-Video-Messaging
4. Configure current Open-Source         Catalyst Challenges for Ideation
5. Engage Catalyst Communities in platform Utility, Design, Improvements, & Discovery

A platform that provides structure for continuous Open Sourcing of the community for:

• Ideation
• Capturing Intentions
• Establishing Teams
• Building Projects

Prepare to engage and coordinate the Catalyst Community for

• Continuous Collaboration - 24/7
• Engage Independent of natural language barriers
• Share and Exchange Community Ideas
• Provide meeting grounds for matching collaborators.
• Establish well formulated projects & teams
• Present Fully Developed Proposals for IdeaScale Catalyst Funding Rounds.

PLATFORM UTILITY

Catalyst struggles with the complexities of large community interaction. We’re engaging in groups far larger than our natural human ability to coordinate our collective skills and passions. We want to maximize our collaboration yet we struggle to work with so many people. We know collaborating at scale will vastly increase our ability to solve problems collectively.  

The core driver of our individual engagements in any collaborative project is our individual passion for solving the problems that interest us most. Along with the joy we each get in doing the things we do best.

The ultimate goal is to create an on-line environment that can coordinate a multitude of individuals around collaborative projects. We need an environment that can put people together without generating chaos. People’s individual interests are the “attractors” that pull people together. We want people to naturally cluster around their individual skills and interests to encourage their collaboration, and we also want to gracefully acknowledge and manage diverging interests and needs when they emerge, as they will among any group of diverse and talented people.

PROJECT DETAILS

4 Parts of a Collaboration Platform  

This project's objective is to install, explore, prototype and evaluate the best existing platforms and environments to integrate for a Global Collaboration Environment.  

1 Collaborative Data Platform

Establish a data platform for engaging Communities in a customizable tool to engage peer to peer networks of individuals at scale. 

2 AI Sentiment Analysis

Integrate the latest natural language AI tools to extract meaning from the community expression of their intentions across multiple languages.  

3 Interactive Network Visualization

Establish and integrate user interface tools to organize information and structure collaborative project design 

4 Collaboration Paradigm 

To Integrate a conceptual framework for guiding project coordination and collaboration for private personal growth and public team/project development.

Collaborative Data Platform

Our development partnership with HYPE Innovation provides us with a collaborative platform for use in organizing our efforts. HYPE’s Collaboration Platform supports tens of thousands of users. They provide their software to 10,000 organizations in 185 countries. It is designed specifically for flexible decentralized collaboration at massive scale. It is a customizable tool for engaging peer to peer in networks of individuals.

https://www.hypeinnovation.com/en/

AI Sentiment Analysis

Using a well-established Open Source Natural Language AI solution, ConceptNet can extract meaning and interpret intent in multiple languages. This AI solution goes way beyond the extraction of keywords. It applies analysis of text to figure out the meaning of the text independently of the languages. This “Semantic Analysis” process is essential to global projects.

 https://conceptnet.io/

Interactive Network Visualization

We will explore and evaluate various user interface tools that can help people organize and more easily absorb information to structure project design collaboratively. It will display the results of the analysis in ways that can enable quicker understanding and more effective coordination between individuals across language barriers. https://rethinkingvis.com/#all

Collaboration Paradigm 

To explore this new territory, we will use the Person-Planet Project-Paradigm (PPPP). PPPP is a conceptual framework for guiding project coordination and collaboration. It inspires personal evaluation while it coordinates the development of projects in teams.

Participants not only use the tool, but they also refine & extend it. The idea is to engage participants to share and compare their interactions and identify both converging and diverging interests, needs, skills and expectations.  

www.spiraljourney.org

A Collaboration Paradigm is intended to guide engagement.

This is a part of a set of Interactive heuristic tools and games, intended to help guide and build consensus around the intentions of a community, and help community members work more effectively as a team.

The Person Planet Process is presented in the form of a Graphical Map of the time-tested ingredients of Collaboration

1. Evolving Goals and Visions
2. Linking with Mentors and Exemplars
3. Developing Guiding Ideas
4. Nurturing Mutual Support Partners
5. Cultivating Personal Strengths and Virtues
6. Building Teams and Team Practices
7. Growing Projects, Products, and Organizations
8. Reflecting on Lessons Learned

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

A collaboration platform for Cardano in a foundational product for engaging in Cardano products of all kinds.

Product Integration into innovative collaboration environments will help in the development of new products on Cardano.

Using Natural Language Processing AI's like ConceptNet will encourage

Language independent collaboration engagement globally.

The Tools are just mature enough now to provide

this kind of social collaboration for the first time

Collaboration Platforms will provide a new generation of Social Media and Social Engagement for establishing working Relationship between members globally.

Our Corporate Partner HYPE Innovation as a global provider of Innovation Managment Platforms for Centralized companies for many years. and for the UN - UNICEF

HYPE now that there will be even larger opportunities for collaboration platforms with massive online memberships.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Reliance on external software:

• We will emphasize the adoption of open source tools to support our project.

• To mitigate any adoption of software from non open source projects we will require perpetual open source licenses to trusted tested platforms with high reliability and uptime expectations. 

• We will seek partnerships with mutual interest in supporting the development of DAO platforms.

Community engagement for evaluation could be lower than expected. Although referenced communities are currently engaged in preparation, we also have relationships with additional communities to use as contingencies.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Detailed Plan with Timeline and Milestones:

Our plan is to initiate our collaborative work in the 3rd quarter of 2022, independent of Catalyst funding. 

• Initial engagement with selected communities
• Innovation management software elements deployed
• Consultation with collaborative methods design experts (ongoing)
• Knowledge management system deployed
• Presentations in community forums about conclusions and findings
• Knowledge products produced and published

Community Engagement UX Research Plan:

Step 1:   

Install and Integrate Software Elements

HYPE Innovation Platform 

Sentiment Analysis SDK

Data Visualization Platform

Data Interface Integration

Other Tools, Miro, Spacial Chat, etc. 

Step 2:

Community building/research group accumulation

• Catalyst townhall
• Socials
• Community conferences (Consensus etc.)

Step 3:

Research preparation through designing activities that deduce information based on interest groups and sub-interest groups

Step 4:

Collaboration based activities to understand how teams work and conduct UX research on how pre-existing teams work and organize themselves.

Sampled from Rats DAO, ADAO, Snapbrillia etc.

Step 5:

Research Documentation.

We publicly document the research and make design and technology requirement conclusions.

Step 6:

Design Mockups

Based on research conclusions, we create design mockups for testing with the community.

Success after:

3 months Stage1 - Fund 9 

• Collaboration Platform Launched
• Engagement with Cardano Communities

6 Months Stage2 - Fund 10 

• Derivation of full platform Design Requirements
• Establish a growing set of Heuristics
• Growing Collaboration Knowledge Base

12 Months Stage3 - Fund 11 

• Integrated Platform Environment
• Consistent Community engagement in Collaboration Platform

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Global Collaboration Platform: Action Steps & 12 Week Budget Hours

Installation, Configuration, Tool Integration

5 Integration, & Configuration Developers - 4 weeks

• Innovation management system customization - 200hrs
• Innovation management configuration       - 80hrs
• Challenge Setting Setup                  - 60hrs
• Community collaborative session Design     -100hrs

SubTotal - 440 Hours

Community Engagement

2 people at each session across - 6 weeks

• Experimentation design              - 30 hrs
• Community Awareness Building Actions     - 30hrs
• Facilitation and Management of Process    - 160hrs

SubTotal - 220 Hours

Engagement Evaluation

3 people over - 3 weeks

• Concept-Net Data / Insight Processing - 40 hr
• Evaluation of Session - 120hrs
• Report / Presentation Preparation - 80hrs

SubTotal-240 Hours

Collaboration Paradigm Testing

2 people at each session across - 6 weeks

• Ongoing prep and internal collaboration - 120hrs
• Collaboration Performance Reporting - 80hrs
• Good Practices & Paradigm Effectiveness - 40hrs

SubTotal - 240 Hours

Total Man Hours

1140 Hours @ Rate $50

Total Budget Requested

$57,000

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

TEAM

Dan Kimball: Serial Tech entrepreneur with 40 years of developing products and companies.

Co-founder of an active EOSIO community governed DAO project

https://www.freeos.io & https://www.freedao.io

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danvancekimball

Micheal Avis: 15 yr Director of HYPE Innovation Bus. Dev. Deep Experience with SaaS Innovation Management in Industry. OpenIDEO, Unicef, Multi-National Open Innovation Management Solutions

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mavis/

Alex Thayer: Implementation Consultant at HYPE Innovation 7yrs. BS Computer Science, Full Stack Java Developer. Multinational Collaboration Platform Designer.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-thayer-24992463/

Harsha Gullapalli: 3+ years as a UI/UX designer & researcher, design educator & digital filmmaker.

Co-founder of Gods of Block DAO. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsha-gullapalli-4b23451a

Dennis Rivers: MA (www.NewConversations.net) Interpersonal Communication Skills Expert, Anti-Nuclear Activist, and Earth Citizen, Co-Founder of Person-Planet Project-Paradigm collaborative framework for collective action. Author of The 7 Challenges Workbook with hundreds of thousands of copies distributed by UN, community colleges, businesses and non-profits for communications training.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-rivers-ma-1016723/

Sheida Mirahsani: - Certified human resources management professional - Online Collaboration Dynamics. Computer Science. Dfinity ICP - Motoko Bootcamp.

Peter Wolcott: 4 years Project Management Experience 2 years deep network observation in multiple global communities with >500+ members Catalyst Swarm Veteran and CC Admin Secretary where I project manage Catalyst Circle and Swarm Events and Evolutions

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-wolcott-013358141/

Mike Brunt: 30 Years as a Full Stack Developer - Expert in Java Virtual Machines environments. Known as the "JVM Whisperer" Deep Experience in multiple Block-Chain Environments. Developer Freeos Dev in the Dfinity ICP Canister.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-brunt-4867b64/

Scott Luxor: Multi-media digital journalist with extensive experience working as both a content producer and as a newsroom editor. Experience includes photojournalism, writing, editing, graphic design, video and video editing. Helping the average person understand difficult concepts is one of my strengths.  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-luxor/ 

CONSULTANTS

Several professionals of leading organizations are joining as partners with deep experience in relevant domains:

Gene Bazan Ph.D. - Founder - Applied Heuristics Associates, Professor of City and Regional Planning at 3 universities US & abroad. 30yrs environmental, civic, governmental and business organizations on board and staff. Created the Center for Sustainability at Penn State. Designer of collaborative games and systems for community engaged planning.

http://www.neo-terra.org/our-team.html

Jerome Kelsey: Founder — FreeDAO.io Brings 20 years of systems and software design, and lead game design. A proponent of free and open societies, direct democracy, gift economies and systems design, Jerome founded FreeDAO as an unstoppable service to bring new tools that can enhance human freedoms.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerome-kelsey/?originalSubdomain=nz

Jerome Hartigan: Co-founder FreeDAO.io Business Strategy and Operations, decades of business strategy, keynote speaking and governance experience, Former Olympic athlete with a keen understanding of effective team and group dynamics, he brings his passion for people to ensure FreeDAO brings sustainable success for those that service it, and for those that it services.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeromehartigan/?originalSubdomain=nz

SOFTWARE PARTNERS

We have partnered with a world-class innovation platform company "HYPE Innovation''.

HYPE's Innovation Management platform has been proven by many corporate clients as well as large open communities and NGO's such as UNICEF, and IDEO.com (a global design and innovation company) You can get a public facing view of the HYPE software at :

• www.openideo.com
• https://www.unicef.org/innovation/stories/unicefs-open-source-approach-innovation

The unique HYPE innovation platform is directed at maximizing Collaboration between members. It’s design is not dependent on Hierarchy, as are competitors in Innovation & Idea Management

Additional Resources

We are seeking one additional team member, from a timezone that can bridge between eastern and western hemispheres, with passion and experience in collaboration and community governance.

Several professionals and leading organizations are joining as partners with deep experience in relevant domains:

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

In order to evolve this Collaboration Platform to we also plan to propose in Future Catalyst Funds

We aim to continue our collaborations and develop useful products honoring the knowledge and practices we are researching, developing, re-sharing and capturing. 

• Fund 9. Stage 1 Ideation:  Global Collaboration Platform

With the success, we anticipate expansion of this project…

• Fund 10. Stage 2 Solution Design: Global Collaboration Platform
• Fund 11. Stage 3 Implementation: Global Collaboration Platform

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

• Platform installations: Github repo & links submitted in monthly report
• Community assembling & building: Recorded ATH meetings, invitations sent out & collaboration agreements
• Research conducted through video documentation (links submitted in monthly report)
• Research insights documentation (publicly shared & also submitted in monthly report)

We aim to deliver the results of our research and collaborative process directly back to the communities we are working with, as well as to the Catalyst community at large (Swarm and After Town Hall sessions). We'll capture these video sessions and related knowledge resources in open source Gitbook form. As a result, we seek to create long-term value for today's DAOing community… and tomorrow's.

GitBook -

• Project Progress Reporting
• Weekly Team Standup and Sprint Meetings
• Tracking Progress using KANBAN and Agile-Sprint Methodology
• Open-Source products made available
• Interviews with knowledgeable community members
• Documentation of new techniques adopted by participating communities
• Reported effectiveness of collaborative techniques employed
• Testimonials from community leaders/members for inclusion in the Commons library

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

Short Term Success would be:

We can demonstrate a first generation Collaboration Platform with natural language support

• The first Collaboration software tools installed
• Limited Integrate of some other collaboration tools Miro & Video meeting boards
• Several Community Engagements with active open ideation
• A Community is engaged in posting ideas for design improvements
• Research Evaluations completed
• Reports filed for community evaluation.

Long Term Success would be to:

• Have the Catalyst Community continuously engaged in the structure continuous collaboration
• Capturing and refining Problem & Solution pairs
• Capturing Community Intentions to chart a future path.
• Active Establishment of Teams
• Active presentation of consistently High Quality Proposals to the Cardano Voters.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is a proposal is deeply related to our proposals on Collaboration and DAOs

but they were not funded.

But we have submitted earlier deeply related but less evolved proposals in

Fund7 & Fund 8

We received very strong reviews on these and they were nearly funded both times.

This is our strongest proposal yet.

We've kept at this because it is a necessary lever for the solving of big problems.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

Perhaps the most important Goal is GOAL 9:

Good Collaboration on Block-Chain projects will lead to all dimensions of that GOAL.

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation!

9.1 Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all.

Our Corporate Partner HYPE Innovation in collaboration with IDEO and the US is the provider of Innovation Management Platforms for the UN - UNICEF

They are working with us to develop collaboration platforms because of the

deep impact on all sustainability goals.