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 		Goals of the Cooperation Project
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    • To encourage interdisciplinary understanding of cooperation and collective action
    • To describe and demonstrate good practices of cooperation
    • To use the results in order to create or improve effective collaboration platforms
    • To use the results for enabling cross-platform collaboration, in cooperation with selected partners
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    • What sort of (online) communities already exist and how can we cooperate with them in a meaningful way (online)?
    • What does a community need in order to participate in the unfolding global economy?
    • What kind of activities can be built around community centers that employ global telecommunication and access to knowledge as levers?
    • What kind of partners and sponsors are we looking for?
    • How are we going to approach those partners and sponsors?
 Participants and their coordinates:
  • Garsett Larosse, CEO WebAssistant.com - garsett@ecotopia.be - skype: garsett
  • John Kellden, founder, conversationlab.com johnkellden@gmail.com skype: john_kellden


What is the mission of this Cooperation Project?
The mission of the Cooperation Project is:
Who are the participants?
we are a group of people from different countries who met at the Cooperation Studies webconference on Brainstorms, the online community founded by Howard Rheingold.

What is cooperation?
the action of cooperating : common effort

Why do people cooperate?
for common benefit

What are the common benefits for the participants of the Cooperation Project?
- to learn more about cooperation and how it works
- to be part of an enriching project
- the ability to use the collaboration platform for other projects

Will the Cooperation Project provide a financial income for its participants?
We'd like to think that this is possible although initially we don't expect it. For now, it's mainly an educational project, but you never know what comes out of it.
We aim to have our development costs paid for by one or more sponsors and currently enjoy the TeleCommunity hosting services of The WebAssistant Company.

What is a Shamrock organisation?
Named as such by management guru Charles Handy, a Shamrock organisation is a virtual organisation, driven by common benefits and client contracts, and without too many fixed costs.

What are the roles in the Shamrock of the Cooperation Project?
KC: knowledge cooperative
OD: organisational development
BD: business development
PD: product development
LG: lead generation
DG: deal generation
PM: project management
PE: project execution

Who are our clients?
For the Cooperation Project, a client is a "market segment of one". What that means is this:
What are our products?
 What is involved in succesful cooperation?