We have some exciting news, a major collaboration of CTA members is finally ready to come to life. The Dynamic, Interoperable Ecosystem map, which started at the 2023 #collabathon, is ready for you! This system allows us to create a live database/map of all organizations connected to the CTA. We will use this to make visible all the organizations that want to be publicly displayed as a signer of the CTA pledge. Instead of someone having to maintain and keep this database/map up to date over time, it will stay updated in an automated way using the Murmurations protocol. For signing organizations this means you can add your profile to the map, update your information in it, and remove yourself at any time.

Here are the instructions to add your organization’s profile. Org/group profiles can be hosted on your own website, on Hylo, Catalist, Wordpress, and hopefully many more platforms soon. Soon this network mapping protocol will expand to add individuals to it, and eventually enable asks and offers to flow across the CTA network in a cross-platform way! Here is the currently live map turned into a Kumu. Once you have added yourself to the map your org will appear here. 

Once we have a few more folks added to the map we will start displaying it on https://collaborative.tech to make ourselves more visible to each other and the world. We think the organic growth of this dynamic map is going to be a really exciting moment of this community seeing itself much more clearly, using open source, interoperable tools we built together!

We also hope this protocol for dynamic network mapping spreads, making it much easier to map and make visible the relationships between people and organizations and networks. If this standard gains adoption then you could maintain your public profile in one place and have it appear in all the different maps/databases/lists you want to be visible in, with you maintaining total control over the data. 

This project has been primarily a collaboration between Murmurations, Catalist, and Hylo with contributions from Nestr and Seriously. Reach out if you want more information about how to create your own network maps using this protocol, or if you want your platform to support publishing Murmurations profiles. 

In Solidarity,

Tibet, Oliver Sylvester-Bradley , Vincent arena, Geoff Turk , Jonathon, Joost Schouten and more