abstract:Digital Collaboration is using digital devices, open source data and cloud technology to share knowledge, manage information and contribute user-generated content to communities of people regardless of time or place. Dramatically different from traditional collaboration, it connects a broader network of participants who can accomplish much more than they would on their own.
As in the case of CROWDSTART, the real magic happens when local online communities facilitate both digitalcollaboration and face-to-face relationship building.
Davidson, a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Duke University, has done a lot of writing on this, especially as it relates to collaboration within digital culture.