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I share notes below from a long conversation today with Suresh Fernando of Open Kollab http://wiki.openkollab.com http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab I'm very encouraged by Suresh's work to create a Pooled Fund Initiative. http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dc4gbgsj_12528qqs9xcj http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Pooled_Fund_Project My understanding is that this will be a $2,000,000 investment fund that provides capital for an ecosystem of dozens of social ventures who are interested in making sure they all succeed and can pay back loans so they can all access such capital further as needed. Perhaps we can think of it as a credit line for an ecosystem of social ventures that they all work together to make best use of. Suresh's leadership is key because he has experience and contacts in the investment world and has thought a lot about community and collaboration. He's asking: * How do I get organizations that have high level of convergence and values to work together in ways that allow them to keep their independence and autonomy and find points of contact for collaboration? * How do we get 100,000,000 people to work on an issue such as global poverty? What does he want to achieve? Build an organization and institutional culture and way of thinking and community formation that will make it possible to have a global community - a real time interaction space - that could tackle global issues such as not having war. His dream is to build a highly scalable open collaboration environment, a standing infrastructure, so that 100,000,000 people could work on issues like global poverty. I'm looking for paid work for myself and my lab, Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt I think that the connections that Suresh is making and uncovering are very helpful for finding such work. It makes sense for me and us to join efforts with Suresh Fernando, Sam Rose http://forwardfound.org, Steve Bosserman, Michel Bauwens http://www.p2pfoundation.net and others who care. I note Tiffany Von Emmel's http://www.dreamfish.com recent letter http://groups.google.com/group/dreamfish about helping Dreamfish win Investor's Circle funding http://www.investorscircle.net Ashoka Fellowship Award http://www.ashoka.org/support Social Venture Network Innovation Awards http://www.svn.org/index.cfm?pageId=727 Program for the Future tools for collective intelligence $5,000 http://www.thetech.org/program_future/ and other opportunities. I am organizing an Economy of Dreams and I want to do this in parallel with the Pooled Fund Initiative and also Dreamfish projects. I am asking us to write about our dreams-in-life and then working to create an internal economy where we support each other's dreams. For example, my own dream to have a 24 hour help room (currently, our chat room http://www.worknets.org/chat/) as a place to help anybody with any problem, large or small, is very much related to Suresh's dream of a real time interaction space for tackling issues such as global poverty. So we can help each other even as we're trying to find paid work. Suresh asks for help to build support for a Pooled Fund Initiative and certainly I can help find and map potential participants, social ventures for his ecosystems. My thought is to write a survey that includes personal questions (deepest value, investigatory question, endeavor, dream-in-life) and social venture questions (such as these: http://wiki.openkollab.com/new/Pooled%20Fund%20Project%20Profile ) And I will also ask each of us, who else would we want to be sure to include in such an ecosystem. That will make for a useful map of our social network. It will also suggest what we can do without money, what endeavors are most strategic in that they catalyze all of our endeavors. (Here's a map of endeavors at Minciu Sodas http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors ) I can further think and write about economic models that can leverage our dreams . I can look for metrics or systems that point to our accountability and how we can restore that. For example, Samwel Kongere in Kenya is a key person at Minciu Sodas (has written about 1,000 letters) but this summer I sent him 1,500 USD to hold and distribute upon my request, and he's not been able to explain what he did with a significant part of that money. I assume he invested it (perhaps in the cereal trade) but I don't know and so it's destroyed our relationship until that's resolved. I write this as an example of what we need to be able to make transparent and resolve if we want to benefit from accountability to each other. How do we pose such questions to each other and hold each other accountable? Not simply regarding money, but being true to our missions, or at least, our values, which can be our strong points and our weak points. I'm especially interested in paid work, although a shared credit line would be helpful for refinancing credit card loans and a good way to practice looking out for each other and being sure to give each other work where we can. As I work on the map above I'd also like to look for independent thinkers and other supportive people in the corporate world who might some day help us get work. Who might like to work together with me? Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt
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I share notes below from a long conversation today with Suresh Fernando of Open Kollab http://wiki.openkollab.com http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab I'm very encouraged by Suresh's work to create a Pooled Fund Initiative. http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dc4gbgsj_12528qqs9xcj http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Pooled_Fund_Project My understanding is that this will be a $2,000,000 investment fund that provides capital for an ecosystem of dozens of social ventures who are interested in making sure they all succeed and can pay back loans so they can all access such capital further as needed. Perhaps we can think of it as a credit line for an ecosystem of social ventures that they all work together to make best use of. Suresh's leadership is key because he has experience and contacts in the investment world and has thought a lot about community and collaboration. He's asking: * How do I get organizations that have high level of convergence and values to work together in ways that allow them to keep their independence and autonomy and find points of contact for collaboration? * How do we get 100,000,000 people to work on an issue such as global poverty? What does he want to achieve? Build an organization and institutional culture and way of thinking and community formation that will make it possible to have a global community - a real time interaction space - that could tackle global issues such as not having war. His dream is to build a highly scalable open collaboration environment, a standing infrastructure, so that 100,000,000 people could work on issues like global poverty. I'm looking for paid work for myself and my lab, Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt I think that the connections that Suresh is making and uncovering are very helpful for finding such work. It makes sense for me and us to join efforts with Suresh Fernando, Sam Rose http://forwardfound.org, Steve Bosserman, Michel Bauwens http://www.p2pfoundation.net and others who care. I note Tiffany Von Emmel's http://www.dreamfish.com recent letter http://groups.google.com/group/dreamfish about helping Dreamfish win Investor's Circle funding http://www.investorscircle.net Ashoka Fellowship Award http://www.ashoka.org/support Social Venture Network Innovation Awards http://www.svn.org/index.cfm?pageId=727 Program for the Future tools for collective intelligence $5,000 http://www.thetech.org/program_future/ and other opportunities. I am organizing an Economy of Dreams and I want to do this in parallel with the Pooled Fund Initiative and also Dreamfish projects. I am asking us to write about our dreams-in-life and then working to create an internal economy where we support each other's dreams. For example, my own dream to have a 24 hour help room (currently, our chat room http://www.worknets.org/chat/) as a place to help anybody with any problem, large or small, is very much related to Suresh's dream of a real time interaction space for tackling issues such as global poverty. So we can help each other even as we're trying to find paid work. Suresh asks for help to build support for a Pooled Fund Initiative and certainly I can help find and map potential participants, social ventures for his ecosystems. My thought is to write a survey that includes personal questions (deepest value, investigatory question, endeavor, dream-in-life) and social venture questions (such as these: http://wiki.openkollab.com/new/Pooled%20Fund%20Project%20Profile ) And I will also ask each of us, who else would we want to be sure to include in such an ecosystem. That will make for a useful map of our social network. It will also suggest what we can do without money, what endeavors are most strategic in that they catalyze all of our endeavors. (Here's a map of endeavors at Minciu Sodas http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors ) I can further think and write about economic models that can leverage our dreams . I can look for metrics or systems that point to our accountability and how we can restore that. For example, Samwel Kongere in Kenya is a key person at Minciu Sodas (has written about 1,000 letters) but this summer I sent him 1,500 USD to hold and distribute upon my request, and he's not been able to explain what he did with a significant part of that money. I assume he invested it (perhaps in the cereal trade) but I don't know and so it's destroyed our relationship until that's resolved. I write this as an example of what we need to be able to make transparent and resolve if we want to benefit from accountability to each other. How do we pose such questions to each other and hold each other accountable? Not simply regarding money, but being true to our missions, or at least, our values, which can be our strong points and our weak points. I'm especially interested in paid work, although a shared credit line would be helpful for refinancing credit card loans and a good way to practice looking out for each other and being sure to give each other work where we can. As I work on the map above I'd also like to look for independent thinkers and other supportive people in the corporate world who might some day help us get work. Who might like to work together with me? Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt
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I share notes below from a long conversation today with Suresh Fernando of Open Kollab http://wiki.openkollab.com http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab I'm very encouraged by Suresh's work to create a Pooled Fund Initiative. http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dc4gbgsj_12528qqs9xcj http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Pooled_Fund_Project My understanding is that this will be a $2,000,000 investment fund that provides capital for an ecosystem of dozens of social ventures who are interested in making sure they all succeed and can pay back loans so they can all access such capital further as needed. Perhaps we can think of it as a credit line for an ecosystem of social ventures that they all work together to make best use of. Suresh's leadership is key because he has experience and contacts in the investment world and has thought a lot about community and collaboration. He's asking: * How do I get organizations that have high level of convergence and values to work together in ways that allow them to keep their independence and autonomy and find points of contact for collaboration? * How do we get 100,000,000 people to work on an issue such as global poverty? What does he want to achieve? Build an organization and institutional culture and way of thinking and community formation that will make it possible to have a global community - a real time interaction space - that could tackle global issues such as not having war. His dream is to build a highly scalable open collaboration environment, a standing infrastructure, so that 100,000,000 people could work on issues like global poverty. I'm looking for paid work for myself and my lab, Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt I think that the connections that Suresh is making and uncovering are very helpful for finding such work. It makes sense for me and us to join efforts with Suresh Fernando, Sam Rose http://forwardfound.org, Steve Bosserman, Michel Bauwens http://www.p2pfoundation.net and others who care. I note Tiffany Von Emmel's http://www.dreamfish.com recent letter http://groups.google.com/group/dreamfish about helping Dreamfish win Investor's Circle funding http://www.investorscircle.net Ashoka Fellowship Award http://www.ashoka.org/support Social Venture Network Innovation Awards http://www.svn.org/index.cfm?pageId=727 Program for the Future tools for collective intelligence $5,000 http://www.thetech.org/program_future/ and other opportunities. I am organizing an Economy of Dreams and I want to do this in parallel with the Pooled Fund Initiative and also Dreamfish projects. I am asking us to write about our dreams-in-life and then working to create an internal economy where we support each other's dreams. For example, my own dream to have a 24 hour help room (currently, our chat room http://www.worknets.org/chat/) as a place to help anybody with any problem, large or small, is very much related to Suresh's dream of a real time interaction space for tackling issues such as global poverty. So we can help each other even as we're trying to find paid work. Suresh asks for help to build support for a Pooled Fund Initiative and certainly I can help find and map potential participants, social ventures for his ecosystems. My thought is to write a survey that includes personal questions (deepest value, investigatory question, endeavor, dream-in-life) and social venture questions (such as these: http://wiki.openkollab.com/new/Pooled%20Fund%20Project%20Profile ) And I will also ask each of us, who else would we want to be sure to include in such an ecosystem. That will make for a useful map of our social network. It will also suggest what we can do without money, what endeavors are most strategic in that they catalyze all of our endeavors. (Here's a map of endeavors at Minciu Sodas http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors ) I can further think and write about economic models that can leverage our dreams . I can look for metrics or systems that point to our accountability and how we can restore that. For example, Samwel Kongere in Kenya is a key person at Minciu Sodas (has written about 1,000 letters) but this summer I sent him 1,500 USD to hold and distribute upon my request, and he's not been able to explain what he did with a significant part of that money. I assume he invested it (perhaps in the cereal trade) but I don't know and so it's destroyed our relationship until that's resolved. I write this as an example of what we need to be able to make transparent and resolve if we want to benefit from accountability to each other. How do we pose such questions to each other and hold each other accountable? Not simply regarding money, but being true to our missions, or at least, our values, which can be our strong points and our weak points. I'm especially interested in paid work, although a shared credit line would be helpful for refinancing credit card loans and a good way to practice looking out for each other and being sure to give each other work where we can. As I work on the map above I'd also like to look for independent thinkers and other supportive people in the corporate world who might some day help us get work. Who might like to work together with me? Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt
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I share notes below from a long conversation today with Suresh Fernando of Open Kollabhttp://wiki.openkollab.com http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab I'm very encouraged by Suresh's work to create a Pooled Fund Initiative. http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dc4gbgsj_12528qqs9xcj http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Pooled_Fund_Project My understanding is that this will be a $2,000,000 investment fund that provides capital for an ecosystem of dozens of social ventures who are interested in making sure they all succeed and can pay back loans so they can all access such capital further as needed. Perhaps we can think of it as a credit line for an ecosystem of social ventures that they all work together to make best use of. Suresh's leadership is key because he has experience and contacts in the investment world and has thought a lot about community and collaboration. He's asking: * How do I get organizations that have high level of convergence and values to work together in ways that allow them to keep their independence and autonomy and find points of contact for collaboration? * How do we get 100,000,000 people to work on an issue such as global poverty? What does he want to achieve? Build an organization and institutional culture and way of thinking and community formation that will make it possible to have a global community - a real time interaction space - that could tackle global issues such as not having war. His dream is to build a highly scalable open collaboration environment, a standing infrastructure, so that 100,000,000 people could work on issues like global poverty. I'm looking for paid work for myself and my lab, Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.ltI think that the connections that Suresh is making and uncovering are very helpful for finding such work. It makes sense for me and us to join efforts with Suresh Fernando, Sam Rose http://forwardfound.org, Steve Bosserman, Michel Bauwens http://www.p2pfoundation.netand others who care. I note Tiffany Von Emmel'shttp://www.dreamfish.comrecent letter http://groups.google.com/group/dreamfishabout helping Dreamfish win Investor's Circle fundinghttp://www.investorscircle.netAshoka Fellowship Awardhttp://www.ashoka.org/supportSocial Venture Network Innovation Awardshttp://www.svn.org/index.cfm?pageId=727Program for the Future tools for collective intelligence $5,000 http://www.thetech.org/program_future/and other opportunities. I am organizing an Economy of Dreams and I want to do this in parallel with the Pooled Fund Initiative and also Dreamfish projects. I am asking us to write about our dreams-in-life and then working to create an internal economy where we support each other's dreams. For example, my own dream to have a 24 hour help room (currently, our chat room http://www.worknets.org/chat/) as a place to help anybody with any problem, large or small, is very much related to Suresh's dream of a real time interaction space for tackling issues such as global poverty. So we can help each other even as we're trying to find paid work. Suresh asks for help to build support for a Pooled Fund Initiative and certainly I can help find and map potential participants, social ventures for his ecosystems. My thought is to write a survey that includes personal questions (deepest value, investigatory question, endeavor, dream-in-life) and social venture questions (such as these: http://wiki.openkollab.com/new/Pooled%20Fund%20Project%20Profile) And I will also ask each of us, who else would we want to be sure to include in such an ecosystem. That will make for a useful map of our social network. It will also suggest what we can do without money, what endeavors are most strategic in that they catalyze all of our endeavors. (Here's a map of endeavors at Minciu Sodas http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors) I can further think and write about economic models that can leverage our dreams . I can look for metrics or systems that point to our accountability and how we can restore that. For example, Samwel Kongere in Kenya is a key person at Minciu Sodas (has written about 1,000 letters) but this summer I sent him 1,500 USD to hold and distribute upon my request, and he's not been able to explain what he did with a significant part of that money. I assume he invested it (perhaps in the cereal trade) but I don't know and so it's destroyed our relationship until that's resolved. I write this as an example of what we need to be able to make transparent and resolve if we want to benefit from accountability to each other. How do we pose such questions to each other and hold each other accountable? Not simply regarding money, but being true to our missions, or at least, our values, which can be our strong points and our weak points. I'm especially interested in paid work, although a shared credit line would be helpful for refinancing credit card loans and a good way to practice looking out for each other and being sure to give each other work where we can. As I work on the map above I'd also like to look for independent thinkers and other supportive people in the corporate world who might some day help us get work. Who might like to work together with me? Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt
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Hi Andrius, a very interesting venture indeed. I feel that the big social scandal of our time is the fact that the money that exists is allocated systematically to the most destructive and unproductive activities. The whole system of wealth production is badly designed and increasingly dysfunctional, in other words it is turning against itself. Redundant activities blank each other out, most work is not resulting in real wealth but in things and side - effects that cause more problems than they solve. When asked for an explanation of this blunder, most agents of the system - be it bankers or politicians - say they simply lack sufficient measurement, procedure and evidence to do otherwise. There is no index that recognizes the General Social Usefulness of activities. Its hard to even calculate such an index, because what is usefulness in a society that systematically cretes distorted interests and needs? One issue out of that dilemma is the clustering of activities in mutually supportive cycles - locally or gloablly. We can embody models of a different economy and we can fight for the existing forces to not destroy them in the first place. Its not about a change of the system; its about the possibility of another world to be manifested. In our yesterdays conversation we have pointed out that even in a village economy we need always alternatives so that supportive relations do not turn into exploitative ones. On the other side its time to recognize the utter necesity to create a resource pool for ourselves and to understand each others needs. One thing that is ot the top list of pushing forward to institutions and decisionmakers is that private resources are not the top of the crop, but they are the poorest way to make use of wealth. We should honor participative resources more than private resources. See the recent commons manifesto below! Knowledge is the most prominent participative resource and its a crime against humanity to exclude anyone from the acquisition or use of knowledge. But everything else that we produce could be partly a participative resource if we find a way for common responsibility and the care for this resource. That is the true meaning of the word Commons , common good and system of stewardship emerging from community. Ownership has been showing as a partly effective way to assure stewardship. How do we turn ownership into true stewardship? How do we assure the voice of community is heard? By institutionalising a constant process of feedback and resource flows to the owners that take stewardship responsible. Thats one meaning of your Economy of Dreams , whilst other people talk of Enabling Economies . Friends organized a conference _title_d Enable! in March in Vienna and I will hopefully give an introductory speech about Global Villages as Enabling Environments . http://www.liftconference.com/news/enable-profound-innovation-society... While currently all my activity and attention is geared towards the January workshop (News coming soon here) in the background we also are looking for new sites and opportunities to showcase the Global Village principle. Also in Kirchbach there is an interesting development, Franz Rieger is a former headmaster of the local school, now retired, and he is gathering all the mayors of the region and all the local actors of KB5, our global village centre, to negociate a new round of cooperation and respect for the resources that people have built in this few years. I am looking forward to your coming to Vienna in January, and I am glad that we will have quite a few visitors from Lithuania at that time. Franz ============================= Strengthen the Commons - Now! ============================= Commons are institutional spaces in which we are free.
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I share notes below from a long conversation today with Suresh Fernando of Open Kollabhttp://wiki.openkollab.com http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab I'm very encouraged by Suresh's work to create a Pooled Fund Initiative. http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dc4gbgsj_12528qqs9xcj http://wiki.openkollab.com/wagn/Pooled_Fund_Project My understanding is that this will be a $2,000,000 investment fund that provides capital for an ecosystem of dozens of social ventures who are interested in making sure they all succeed and can pay back loans so they can all access such capital further as needed. Perhaps we can think of it as a credit line for an ecosystem of social ventures that they all work together to make best use of. Suresh's leadership is key because he has experience and contacts in the investment world and has thought a lot about community and collaboration. He's asking: * How do I get organizations that have high level of convergence and values to work together in ways that allow them to keep their independence and autonomy and find points of contact for collaboration? * How do we get 100,000,000 people to work on an issue such as global poverty? What does he want to achieve? Build an organization and institutional culture and way of thinking and community formation that will make it possible to have a global community - a real time interaction space - that could tackle global issues such as not having war. His dream is to build a highly scalable open collaboration environment, a standing infrastructure, so that 100,000,000 people could work on issues like global poverty. I'm looking for paid work for myself and my lab, Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.ltI think that the connections that Suresh is making and uncovering are very helpful for finding such work. It makes sense for me and us to join efforts with Suresh Fernando, Sam Rose http://forwardfound.org, Steve Bosserman, Michel Bauwens http://www.p2pfoundation.netand others who care. I note Tiffany Von Emmel'shttp://www.dreamfish.comrecent letter http://groups.google.com/group/dreamfishabout helping Dreamfish win Investor's Circle fundinghttp://www.investorscircle.netAshoka Fellowship Awardhttp://www.ashoka.org/supportSocial Venture Network Innovation Awardshttp://www.svn.org/index.cfm?pageId=727Program for the Future tools for collective intelligence $5,000 http://www.thetech.org/program_future/and other opportunities. I am organizing an Economy of Dreams and I want to do this in parallel with the Pooled Fund Initiative and also Dreamfish projects. I am asking us to write about our dreams-in-life and then working ... read more ť SocialVentureInvestmentBank_0312.09-1-1.pdf 1543K Download
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