An online, complexity management and communications tool
The Participatory Workspace (PWS) is a post-Cartesian management and communications tool for organisations and networks, which streamlines the contributions of their members. It facilitates understanding and governing complexity through its “theme map” and other devices that are built via participation.
As a powerful intranet:
- (a) it builds a rich, structured and easy-to access knowledge base, and updates it on a daily basis through members’ publications;
- (b) it makes members’ tacit knowledge explicit;
- (c) it replaces e-mails and WhatsApp’s and gives easy access to material from any date, without flooding cell-phones and computers; and
- (d) it gives visibility to the contributions from each member.
The PWS has two components: a specialised online platform that is supplied as SaaS, and a participatory methodology for its customised design and implementation. The PWS is one of the tools of the Participatory Innovation Praxis (PIP).