Technologies of Cooperation

Howard Rheingold, Andrea Saveri and Kathi Vian put together a report (PDF) and visual map of technologies of cooperation. They talk about technologies, the power of these tools derives from the social practices they amplify specifically the ways people, machines and institutions can cooperate. They mention eight key clusters:

- Group-forming networks
- Social software
- Social mobile computing
- Self-organizing mesh network
- Community computing grids
- Peer production networks
- Social accounting tools
- Knowledge collectives