How might we organize communications more effectively? My hypothesis: A distributed model will work better. (More on this later, you can see some preliminary thoughts in an article I wrote for telecentre.org.) My focus here is on developing a better way to work for distributed, multidisciplinary, cross-cultural teams. More specifically research teams, international development projects, [...]
Archive | June, 2009
Characteristics of university-based research groups
Today doing lots of reading and research on collaboration systems and practices for distributed teams. And especially for research teams. Tracey Lauriault (see also her datalibre.ca writing) gave me a paper she wrote on this with Fraser Taylor: Cybercartography and the New Economy: Collaborative Research in Action. I’ve not yet read the whole paper, but [...]