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Kublai is a social network geared towards the design of creative projects with regional development implications; it uses many different channels, from the web to Second Life to real life meetups. The idea behind it is that a nonlocal community to interact with is useful for locally active innovative people. Kublai is a pilot project of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development.

Here is a presentation of the project in 19 slides:

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A summary of international articles and posts written about it:

• from Alberto’s blog (Kublai project leader)
• Using virtual space for real world collaborations: Interview with Alberto Cottica of Italian Development Ministry, Betterverse
• Le développement local italien mise sur les individus, La 27e Région (French)
• La 27ème région se présente devant le réseau Kublai, Metalab (French)
• from David Osimo’s blog, e-government 2.0
• Présentation de réseaux d’innovation publics en dupleix du sommet mondial de l’OCDE à Pusan (Corée), OECD World Forum
• Is government bureaucracy any better in Second Life?, PSDblog – World Bank

Some videos and presentations:

• Kublai: a presentation at Public Services 2.0
• Enhance regional development, Reboot 11
• Audio: We.gov and E-govt: Collaboration or Conflict?, Personal Democracy Forum Europe

And materials from Kublai-NonZero conferences.

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1. Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the organization of the Wordpress community and Automattic scrive:

   18 aprile 2011 alle 10:34

   [...] community and Automattic, I gathered a lot of ideas that we later discussed and implemented into Kublai, when we introduced the Kublai Community Staff (in September 2008, inspired by WordPress angels) [...]

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