Skype meeting May 04 2011
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Network
Steve knows Pamela
Bayle knows Sam
Steve knows Sam, but not Bayle
Watu Afrika
https://sites.google.com/site/watuafrika/
Tibi: Incremental introduction of tools based on immediate needs.
Development Phases for a Localized Business Ecosystem
Sources:
Local Food Systems: http://www.localfoodsystems.org/
- Business Idea
- What I would have if I organized what I do as a business
- Everyone has the potential to start-up, survive, and sustain business
- Business Case
- Frames my business idea in a format and language that others can easily recognize - a three-minute "elevator speech"
- Business Cluster Map http://www.localfoodsystems.org/map
- Georeferences my business case within a familiar local / regional area
- Identifies potential connections by basic inputs and outputs
Lorain County CIP: https://sites.google.com/a/greeneracres.us.com/lorain-county-cip/
(This is one of currently five project sites in various stages of concept and rollout in support of alternatives approaches to developing localized business ecosystems)
- Assets
- Asset Maps
- Freeware application that converts excel spreadsheet latitude / longitude coordinates into KML for Google Maps integration?
- Site Maps
- Data Layers
- Community Investment Portfolio (CIP)
- Participation
- Who's involved?
- What degree of trust are participants willing to risk?
- What level of transparency are participants willing to share?
- Governance
- Type of organization structure matches the degree of trust and level of transparency
- Contract - Closed
- Structure = For Profit: Sole Proprietorship / Partnership / C or S-Corporation / NPO
- Relationship among actors = Employees / Suppliers / Investors / Customers
- Control mechanism = Contract Terms and Litigation
- Charter - Conditionally Open
- Structure = Cooperative / L3C / LLC / NPO
- Relationship among actors = Members / Shareholders / Suppliers / Customers
- Control mechanism = Membership rights and Litigation
- Commitment - Open
- Structure = Open Enterprise
- Relationship among actors = Collaborators
- Control Mechanism = Reputation
- Transactions
Wiki Mapia
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=43.6667&lon=-79.4167&z=10&l=0&m=b
Need an open collaborative map with logical inference capabilities. Steve's CIP framework can serve as the basis of such system of inference, it is in fact a value flow system. For example, the map can infere areas for needed development in order to fully complete a cycle.
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From an email by Tibi
I now see Steve's framework as a bases for such inference system. In short, as data accumulates on a map (resources can be mapped by everyone out there), one could use the inference layer to detect weak points within the ecosystem, to see opportunities, to formulate strategies, to find new ways to combine resources and to add value to them, etc. This tool will enable local communities to take a systemic approach to their development, something that only large institutions could do in the past, or a farmer could do at a very small scale.
This is more than just collaboration, although the collaboration thread runes through everything here. We can provide the tools that will enable strategic planning, tight coordination, self organization, etc. We need to make crucial information available to the masses and to provide powerful tools for analysis and planning that anyone can use, in order to catalyze massive sustainable development.
I agreed to work with Steve and his friends to push this vision as far as we can using the Google infrastructure, to build a reduced model of what we have in mind, good enough to convince others to invest in further development. My goal is to enlist local governments and academic institutions to this project.
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