Common Action

Moving the world from chaos to comprehension.

Typical frictions that plague knowledge workers, such as discovery of resources and peers, accumulating messages, lack of structure for projects, lack of support for collaborative team environments, and the tremendous organizational overhead that complex problems require can be reduced with a design tailored to the climate context. Since the majority of the time expense of climate action is in performing knowledge work–organizing, disseminating, learning, tracking, flagging, analyzing, managing, and so forth–seamless information, communication and knowledge infrastructure is critical path to increasing the speed of response.

Incidentally, because the primary challenges of transitioning to open science are also related to the organization of groups working collectively to produce, disseminate, and access knowledge materials, such an infrastructure is also well positioned to support the needs of the open science transition.