Jon Ramer Explained

Jon Eliot Ramer (born 1958) is an American entrepreneur, civic leader, inventor, and musician. He is co-founder of several technology companies including Ramer and Associates,[1] ELF Technologies, Inc.,(whose main solution, Serengeti, was purchased by Thomson Reuters)[2] and Smart Channels.[3] [4] The designer and co-founder of several Deep Social Networks,[5] he is the former executive director of the Interra Project,[6] and a co-founder of Ideal Network,[7] a group-buying social enterprise that donates a percentage of every purchase to a non-profit or school. Ideal Network is a certified B-Corp that was recognized as "Best in the World for Community" in 2012 by B-Labs.[8] He is also the designer and co-founder of Compassionate Action Network International,[9] a 501(c)(3) organization based in Seattle, that led the effort to make the city the first in the world to affirm Karen Armstrong's Charter for Compassion. Most recently, Ramer conceived of and produced the "Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest" [10] in response to a challenge from the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky to other cities to outdo Louisville's compassionate action as measured by hours of community service. Ramer also serves as Director and Chief Technology Officer at Four Worlds International Institute, with a focus on the Campaign To Protect the Sacred.[11] The campaign birthed the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects, signed by over fifty different tribes throughout North America. Ramer is also the songwriter and lead guitarist in the band Once And For All.[12]

Biography

Ramer was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Brooklyn, New York. As a young man Ramer attended both the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he founded Blue Pearl Music.[13] Ramer enjoyed a successful career as a musician and performer until in 1982 a chance meeting with Chilean statesman and businessman Fernando Flores led him to develop interests in technology, networks, and communications. Ramer subsequently co-founded Ramer and Associates, Inc. and partnered with Action Technologies Inc. to design and distribute a groupware software program called The Coordinator,[1] one of the first email system and wide area networking platform for personal computers. Ramer and Associates Inc. was subsequently acquired by Flores' Business Design Associates.

After the events of September 11, 2001, Ramer entered into the world of non-profits and community organizing. Seeking to apply what he had learned in business to effect social change via communication technologies and community engagement, Ramer co-founded the Unity Project Seattle[14] —an organization dedicated to interfaith dialogue and action—often using his music to create bridges between different religious traditions. Ramer met Greg Steltenpohl, founder of Odwalla and together with Dee Hock, founder of Visa, they started the Interra Project,[6] a social enterprise that sought to fund non-profits via purchases made by consumers from local merchants. In 2008, Ramer's work with the interfaith community led him to be an organizational participant in Seeds of Compassion,[15] an event in Seattle coordinated around the H.H. Dalai Lama's visit. Following Seeds of Compassion, Ramer co-founded the Compassionate Action Network and in his initial role as executive director conceived and launched the Ten Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities, which has now spread to over two hundred and fifty cities worldwide.[16] In 2010 Ramer co-founded Ideal Network, a B-Corporation whose business model included donations to non-profits with every consumer purchase. In response to a slew of gun violence in the city of Seattle in summer of 2012, Ramer conceived of and produced the "Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest"[17] to encourage a culture of kindness, social justice, and compassion.

Companies and Organizations founded

Two of these companies, ELF and Smart Channels, were based on patents Ramer filed.

Network design

Ramer has designed several online networks with sustainability, education, compassion or human rights as a focus:

Awards and appointments

Publications

Patents

ELF Technologies: “Interaction Network System with Electronic Organizational Actors”[38]

Smart Channels : “Dynamic configuration of context- sensitive personal sites and membership channels”[39]

Coined phrases

In his most recent work with Phil Lane Jr., Ramer coined the phrase “Deep Social Networks” which refers to online networks that “produce meaningful results and build deeper relationships that learn and grow in ways that sustain and enhance human life for all inhabitants of mother Earth.”[40]

"Regenerative Commerce"[41] [42]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: INTERACTION NETWORK SYSTEM WITH ELECTRONIC ORGANIZATIONAL ACTORS - RAMER AND ASSOCIATES INC. www.sumobrain.com.
  2. Web site: Thomson Reuters | Thomson Reuters Acquires Serengeti Law . 2013-05-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120316053313/http://thomsonreuters.com/content/press_room/legal/625883 . 2012-03-16 .
  3. Web site: Jon Ramer - ICANNWiki. icannwiki.org.
  4. Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society by Andrés R. Edwards, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, 2010, p.58
  5. Web site: Deep Social Networks and The Digital Fourth Way | PDF | Social Media | Popular Culture & Media Studies. Scribd.
  6. Web site: About us.
  7. Web site: Crosscut.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20110613185259/http://crosscut.com/2011/03/02/nonprofits-philanthropy/20652/Ideal-Network%3A-social-marketing%2C-with-a-societal-purpose/. dead. June 13, 2011.
  8. Web site: B Corporation - Best for the World . 2012-07-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120502083123/http://www.bcorporation.net/index.cfm/nodeID/639DD431-0528-43F6-83F2-C8D08619D17E/fuseaction/content.page . 2012-05-02 .
  9. Web site: Fetzer Institute and Compassionate Action Network Partner on Compassionate Seattle Celebration. prnewswire.com.
  10. Web site: Home. Compassion Games International.
  11. http://www.protectthesacred.org Archived copy
  12. Web site: Hear Now, by Once And For All. Once And For All.
  13. Web site: Copyright Search. 16 April 2023.
  14. http://www.wiserearth.org/group/NICO/section/details Wiser Earth
  15. Web site: Seeds of Compassion. Seeds of Compassion. 16 April 2023.
  16. Web site: The International Institute for Compassionate Cities . 2011-06-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111027174139/http://compassionatecities.org/en/cities/_cities.html . 2011-10-27 .
  17. Web site: Compassion Games -- Survival of the Kindest. November 20, 2012. HuffPost.
  18. Web site: Natural Capital Institute . June 6, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110430170704/http://www.naturalcapital.org/ . April 30, 2011 .
  19. Web site: Charter for Compassion. https://web.archive.org/web/20130530033341/http://compassionateaction.org/. dead. May 30, 2013. Charter for Compassion.
  20. http://o.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2019409273_compassion12m.html Seattle Times
  21. http://www.childrightsinpractice.org/ Child Rights in Practice
  22. http://www.wiserearth.org/ WiserEarth
  23. Web site: The Four Worlds International Institute. www.fwii.net.
  24. Web site: エクシアから墓場まで. エクシアから墓場まで.
  25. Web site: Community Learning Exchange . 2011-06-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110627183744/http://www.communitylearningexchange.org/ . 2011-06-27 . dead .
  26. Web site: About Us - Community Learning Exchange . 2011-06-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110912071217/http://www.communitylearningexchange.org/page/about-us-1 . 2011-09-12 . dead .
  27. Web site: Center for Ethical Leadership. https://web.archive.org/web/20101216104127/http://www.ethicalleadership.org/Members/mhamasaki/newsletter-articles/2009-legacy-event. dead. December 16, 2010.
  28. Web site: IICRD. https://web.archive.org/web/20110726173908/http://www.iicrd.org/about_us/advisors_and_associates. dead. July 26, 2011.
  29. “21st Century Collaboration Resources” by Michael Gilbert, Editor
  30. "Information Technology and International Cooperation" Edited by, Ken Jordan
  31. Edited by Mark Tovey, with a foreword by Yochai Benkler and prefaces by Thomas Malone, Tom Atlee, and Pierre Levy. Published by the Earth Intelligence Network
  32. Web site: Four Worlds Centre. https://web.archive.org/web/20110227023734/http://www.fourworlds.ca/who002_001.html. dead. February 27, 2011.
  33. Utilizing the Digital 4th Way As A Platform for Building A People Centered ASEAN https://www.scribd.com/doc/47548940/Utilizing-The-Digital-4th-Way-As-A-Platform-For-Building-A-People-Centred-ASEAN
  34. Web site: Jon Ramer: Leading the Charge to a More Compassionate Future. Rahim. Kanani. Forbes.
  35. News: Q&A: Leading the charge to a more compassionate future | Financial Post. Financial Post. 2011-08-29.
  36. Web site: Seattle Takes Up 'Who's the Kindest' Dare from Louisville. 16 April 2023.
  37. A Timely Interview With Jon Ramer About Creating Collective Compassion (Part 1) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-c-smith/a-timely-interview-with-j_b_2378166.html
  38. Web site: WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections. patentscope.wipo.int. 16 April 2023.
  39. Web site: Dynamic configuration of context-sensitive personal sites and membership channels. 16 April 2023.
  40. Deep Social Networks, Jon Ramer and Chief Phil Lane, 2009
  41. "Citizens of Sustainability" by Institute for the Future 2007
  42. "2007-2017 Map of Future Forces Affecting Sustainability" by Institute for the Future

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