Welcome to an emerging community of practice & work in progress.

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.

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.

Join VMAST WG

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. 

Join WHETS WG

Applying web-3 technology to support participatory and polycentric governance. 

Join WHAO WG
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.

Circle is applied for hosting the community.

Circle community

Google Docs are the main document repository and used by all the working groups. 

Access through Working Groups

Notion is tested by the Governance WG for community collaboration, workshop groups and knowledge creation.

Notion community

Discord is being tested by the Governance WG.

Join the server
Communication

Currently supporting open space  

Open space

Zoom is applied as the main meeting technology. 

Meetings

Calendly for appointments

Booking
Project management 

Miro is used for VMAST Canvas, for hosting online training workshops, by the VMAST, WHETS & Governance Working Groups.

VMAST Canvas

Typeform for monthly surveys

Survey

Under consideration

Fundraising
Social media

World Heritage Catalysis presence 

 

LinkedIn

Communication 

Twitter

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

FB group
Tech partners

VMAST is applying Zegeba Forms and hosted by Zegeba. 

Partnership

Ava Security's solutions are matched against VMAST.

Partnership