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Groupware and other Computer Supported Collaborative Work ( CSCW ) platforms are now the stage of Network Creativity on the web or on other private networks.

These tools have made more obvious the existence of a more connective, cooperative and collective nature of creativity rather than the prevailing individual one.

Creativity Research on Global Virtual Teams is showing that the creative process is affected by the national identities, cognitive and conative profiles, anonymous interactions at times and many other factors affecting the teams members, depending on the early or later stages of the cooperative creative process.

They are also showing how NGO's cross-cultural virtual team's innovation in Africa would also benefit from the pooling of best global practices online.

Such tools enhancing cooperative creativity may have a great impact on society and as such should be tested while they are built following the Motto: " Build the Camera while shooting the film ".

Some European FP7 scientific programs like Paradiso are answering a need for advanced experimentally driven research including large-scale experimentation test-beds to discover the technical, societal and economic implications of such groupware and collaborative tools to the Internet.