THESIS time

Alice's response to ED

Have you thought about doing a small 'collaborative' project as the basis of your thesis research...

This would be fab - I really would like to work on a real project - lets explore this idea further. Would the web - resource itself be this kind of project? I gather we are trying to construct a platform for collaboration - maximising the benefit, and useability of the platform will require working with users, tailoring it to their needs (this links to the language angle below).

So what type / area of collaboration do you guys share an interest in?

I think we need to go deeper with this question. We're meeting soon, so we have an opportunity to explore this together. I'm personally very interested in your suggestions around culture and language, in particular your comment that:

It's interesting that still on the web there's precious little truely inter-cultural collaboration... Wikipedia a bit, but they are separate languages, Linux has contributers from several countries (code languages are international, like music notation and pictures), but very little on more 'social' projects... yet that is what is needed for addressing global social/environmental challenges.

I had a brainwave of a real-time translation tool, for collaborative websites, so that you always see the page and posts in the language of your choice. The user would help with the continued development of the dictionaries... Maybe this thing allready exists...? (More to explore).

With FAR's Thesis in mind, we need to explore the application of such a tool for business towards facilitating 'truly inter-cultural collaboration'.

Alice :)