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The future of hybrid engagement: accelerated action to tackle global threats
How can we use the new physics of digital connections to save lives? What is the future of hybrid engagement? The ultimate test of any digital architecture is whether it can deliver results in the real world. In the context of global health, the challenge is bridging the “know-do gap.” This is the chasm between…
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Digital propinquity: how to engineer serendipity and build connection in remote teams
We cannot teleport physical proximity, but we can replicate its psychological effects in remote teams. This has everything to do with propinquity. If the physical world provided connection by accident, the digital world requires connection by design. The most critical loss in the shift to remote work is “propinquity,” a fancy word for physical nearness.…
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Trust in remote work: what is the psychology of social presence?
Why does a video call feel empty compared to a handshake? How does physical absence break the social contract? What happens to trust in remote work? For generations, professional trust relied on a simple, physical toolkit. We shook hands. We looked each other in the eye across a table. We shared coffee during breaks. These…
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Remote partnership brokering in the Digital Age
During the Remote Partnering Brokering Project Design Lab held at Trigonos in North Wales from January 23 to 26, 2017, Reda Sadki of The Geneva Learning Foundation presented a session titled “Technology for learning and changing”. Catherine Russ and Ros Tennyson of the Partnership Brokers Association (PBA) invited Sadki as part of their effort to…
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