I've spent most of the last few years consulting, roughly in the area of dynamic and emergent knowledge systems, interaction and communication. That encompasses everything from arm-waving vision generation through strategy development to procurement, configuration and training. And, where I couldn't persuade someone else to do it, the coding too: le Monty complet, in fact. Much of the work has been based around the Ubiquity model of trusted collaborative interaction mediated by the core tetrad of association, value, knowledge and identity. That's a very useful model, but one that is oft easier to communicate when a specific example is used: starting with the original architecture and roadmap for h2g2, I've also been using a slightly hypothetical scenario of creating a collaborative knowledge-centred community around communicating a global issue, one which brought together organisations, communities and individuals of many different types around knowledge related to a need that had a universal context: in subject, location, time and intent. That's generally worked well for me and my clients.
But now it's time to put my money (what there is of it) where my mouth is: to create just such a service, in an area I feel passionately about – maintaining the richness and diversity of culture and life on our planet in the face of human activity driving fundamental changes to the world's climate, at a rate which looks to exceed the ability of ourselves and other species to adapt. It's also one which brings together my alternate lives as biologist, computer scientist and social entrepreneur: Full circle into the future.
So here's BlueGlobe (http://www.blueglo.be/) – a placeholder for the start of an intelligent, emergent online service designed to bring together the core constituencies of Climate Change: Businesses, governments, scientists, the media, educators and individuals and communities. It's very early days yet - I've managed to accumulate a wonderful team of thinker-doers and we're getting stuff together as fast as resources permit. Although if I have to spend very much longer training a Bayesian RSS filter NOT to tag anything that mentions Al Gore as Irrelevant, I may live to regret it. So please take a wander over there and sign yourself up for news of developments as they happen – it won't be long.
Richard
Two Worlds is a creative technology, interaction, communication and social technology consultancy. It is the commercial vehicle for Richard Harris and his team of collaborators and world-wide associates. We help our clients to transform their vision, strategy and approach for knowledge management and the interactions that create and share knowledge. Our focus is on ubiquitous services, social and collaboration-based systems, new media, networks and emerging technologies. We analyse markets, business models and emerging technologies and help develop the ideas and opportunities to exploit them. We then can design the architectures and user experience that turns ideas into reality and possibility into profit.
Continue reading "About Two Worlds"As Two Worlds, we've worked for a variety of clients, large and small
While with The Digital Village (TDV)/h2g2:
For more information on individual expertise and backgrounds, look at the individual pages of the participant members of Two Worlds.
The 'We' in Two Worlds is its principal, Richard Harris, and the group of like-minded individual associates and partner organisations he's brought together to create flexible and focussed teams to fulfil our brief - from pure vision to pragmatic prototyping, from planning to pervasive knowledge.
And please bear with the obvious holes in content and links while the site is being rolled out…
The principles of Ubiquity, community and emergence apply, by definition, across many different sectors. We do however have particular expertise and experience in certain areas, including:
Following the principle of practising what we preach, we provide consultancy and support services for a number of technologies. These include:
Two Worlds is based in the UK (Surrey and Edinburgh), and we have recently worked in much of the EU, the USA, Canada, Uganda, Rwanda, Congo and Switzerland.