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Courses are learning experiences that empower civic organizers and innovators with knowledge, frameworks, and peer learning for collective action.
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Civic Innovation FOundations
Core competency curriculum developed with network members. In development for release 2025
Group Facilitation
Learn to steward collective processes, including participatory design, conflict mediation, and dialogue.
Knowledge management
Learn to manage knowledge graphs, including bi-directional linking, ontology mapping, and decentralized commoning.
Systems Mapping
Learn to map complex systems and develop systems-aware strategies for community and idea development.
Organizational Design
Learn to coordinate and design on-chain organizations and initiatives, including roles, treasury, and decision-making.
About Activities
the connective tissue of the network
Within the Open Civic Innovation Framework, the participatory design process exists to guide and support the open civic innovation lifecycle through six essential activities: map, alliances, initiatives, grants, gatherings, and courses. Participatory activities are expressions of strategic functions designed to provide the necessary scaffolding for the emergent self-organization of sovereign actors towards a common goal.
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Align : Maps
Mapping is a practice of structuring representations of systems, relationships, and processes to foster alignment and empower collective action.
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Coordinate : Alliances
Alliances are aligned peers/projects, coordinating their efforts for increased impact and efficacy in their complementary independent pursuits.
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Collaborate : Initiatives
Initiatives are collaborative working groups of aligned peers/projects, producing mutually beneficial outputs that require synergistic coordination.
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Resource : Grants
Grants are resourcing for civic innovation projects, connecting civic patrons with innovators through democratic and trust-based philanthropy.
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Convene : Gatherings
Gatherings are online and in-person convenings that bring civic innovators, organizers and patrons into closer relationship around shared purpose.
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Learn : Courses
Courses are learning experiences that empower civic organizers and innovators with knowledge, frameworks, and peer learning that supports collective action.
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Join an aligned network of open civic innovators, organizers, and patrons.
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Discover and resource an ecosystem of open civic innovation activities.
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Explore public resources and get inspired by models for local collective action.