Technology
- applied through World Heritage Catalysis
In the effort to facilitate a commons oriented community of practice, technology matters. World Heritage Catalysis applies a variety of technologies - some proprietary, other open source. While we aspire use of open source, cooperatively owned and governed technologies, we take a pragmatic approach (#technology4good)
Being transparent in use of technology we want to explain why we have chosen this specific technology and allow members to make a deliberate decision on the use of the various services. Use of technology may be subject to change. Some of the below the below services are already integrated, others are under consideration.
#Technology4good
Applied in vitsitor management
The Visitor Management Assessment & Strategy Tool (VMAST) is the central tool applied and supported by World Heritage Catalysis. VMAST was developed through UNESCO and is an open educational resource hosted and supported by Zegeba in collaboration with World Heritage Catalysis.
The World Heritage Exchange Trading Systems (WHETS) is incubated through World Heritage Catalysis and intends to supplement VMAST and WHAO with collaborative infrastructures applied locally as well as across organisations. While the exchange trading systems developed in the context of WHETS could apply different technology, mutual credit systems could ideally (this is the hypothesis and focus of action research) be federated through the Credit Commons Protocol.
Applying web-3 technology to support participatory and polycentric governance.
Facilitating community & supporting collaboration
World Heritage Catalysis website is built using Kajabi. Kajabi is a cloud based content production and marketing platform. It also a platform for hosting membership sites.
Google Docs are the main document repository and used by all the working groups.
Notion is tested by the Governance WG for community collaboration, workshop groups and knowledge creation.
Communication
Project management
Miro is used for VMAST Canvas, for hosting online training workshops, by the VMAST, WHETS & Governance Working Groups.
Social media
WHETS presence but no activity
World Heritage Catalysis is not yet present at Facebook but will set up an account primarily used for announcements.
We will not make use of Facebook as a primary technology to build community.
Proprietary
