Sarah Wong

This is a collective intelligence problem. Smart people in a few places can’t create comprehensive evals for every use case. The solution is generative: give people the tools to create their own tests, and aggregate them so that narrow insights become broad-based understanding.

Communities need the tools and infrastructure to create their own evaluations.

cross-pollination an effective way to quickly unearth, connect and mobilise resources, networks and projects across specialisms and sectors within a place-based community. Through a series of tasks and conversations, we ask everyone in the room to share what they are doing, what they would like to do, what resources they have and which ones they... See more

We have been experimenting with an approach called Cross-pollination which aims to create a simple mechanism for such conversations, and for mapping local assets and initiatives. We have found that one of the things that people have valued most in this process is that they simply learn more about what is happening in their area. This knowledge is... See more

One of the great advantages of a place-based conversation is that it can bring together initiatives of different scales led by different sectors.