[p2p-research] [OK] Digest for openkollab at googlegroups.com - 6 Messages in 2 Topics
Suresh Fernando
suresh at radical-inclusion.com
Mon Jan 11 16:05:12 CET 2010
James,
Great questions! - see below.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Data Pathway <data.pathway at gmail.com>wrote:
> So, Suresh,
> Based on the explanations you have given, is there an intention on the part
> of openkollab to steer as well as map?
> by this I mean: once a clear idea has emerged as to who is doing what,
> where, will this be plotted against who NEEDS what where, again in terms of
> a vision of how each individual group (or clusters of groups) efforts drive
> for a specific paralleled goal?
>
It's difficult to predict exactly how all of this will unfold and a lot will
depend on what are resources are, but you can keep the following in mind:
OK is in discussion Sam Rose and his Forward Foundation team about
developing a more expanded approach that will broaden the service offering
beyond strictly financing. This will include help;
- Identification of business models,
- Development of associated strategies (marketing, revenue generation,
financial modeling etc)
- Development of associated collateral materials
- Etc.
The ultimate goal of the Pooled Fund Initiative is to start the process of
creating a completely new way of funding early stage social ventures. Hence
we are committed to helping early stage entrepreneurs. That said, we will
never have infinite resources and therefore. practically speaking, there
will be a focus on projects that:
- Are a part of an ecosystem that we think we can finance
- Have resources to pay us for consulting services.
We would love to say that we can help everyone, but I think that would be a
misrepresentation.
>
> In that context, a look at what is ultimately needed could reveal what is
> not being addressed at all, to transition to a new mode of operation.
>
Absolutely!
>
> As a former GIS project manager, I understand that mapping reveals what
> your data "knows" about some spatial phenomena, and reveals the gaps
> or inconsistencies in that knowledge.
>
> So the real question I am asking is: does anyone have a clear vision of
> what elements are needed to effect the change we are talking about? and I
> mean specifics like at what threshold of small scale manufacturing will be
> needed as a percentage of GDP to impact the current paradigm?
>
I certainly don't. I should also say that what is conspicuously absent, to
date, from this model is a strategy that is domain specific. This is to say
that nothing that I have proposed so far references in any way any specific
characteristics of either the manufacturing process or distributed
manufacturing. All I have proposed is that we explore the possibility of
building collaborative frameworks and pull projects together.
I am hoping to commence conversations this week with some of the actual
project leaders, such as yourself, with a view to getting a better
understanding of the nuances of the domain itself.
In other words, I would like to be able to develop a logic that gives me
insight into what sorts of Distributed Manufacturing projects might be best
aligned.
It would be great if you can help us with this in some way.
>
> Need to dig up a statistician or two... ;-)
>
> Even in asking the question I doubt that the answer conforms to that
> rigorous a model since that type of analysis typically takes place AFTER the
> things have changed rather than in anticipation of it.
>
> But, ultimately, if your project does in fact end up financing these
> ecosystems then by design or accident, you will exert substantial influence
> on the process by merit of what you choose to support.
>
True
>
> In the absence of a detailed vision of what portions of our current system
> need to change makes this potentially quite arbitrary, for what is needed
> may be non-intuitive as compared to what is desired.
>
I'm not planning on making value judgments about what/what should not get
financed. This is a mechanism that is focused on supporting social
entrepreneurs.. Hence it is assumed that all candidates have projects that
are of social benefit and therefore are worthy.
>
> So another layer of query is revealed: what exactly are we trying to do to
> improve our society(s), and what specific changes will help usher those
> changes in at the quickest pace (or the most sensible pace) (or least
> disruptive pace).
>
> I think your desire to support progress is laudable, and I support your
> premise that in forming awareness of parallel activity, duplication will be
> reduced, since more borrowing of successful results can occur and numerous
> other benefits are intrinsic to the concept.
>
> I further believe that collaboration on reaching goals, without some
> contextual framework of the goals potential impact (either positive, neutral
> or negative) on progress toward an intentional state, is less desirable than
> choosing goals that develop toward specific and measurable progress within
> the larger context.
>
I don't deny that that collaboration, in and of itself, cannnot be result in
negative outcomes. Terrorists effectively collaborate!
That said, my contribution to the human race will be focused on getting
people to:
- Understand the potential positive outcomes of collaboration
- Develop innovative structures to make this possible
- In the process provide increased opportunities to those that have great
ideas that can benefit possibly benefit humanity but are currently are
marginalized
I encourage you to contribute any thoughts and intelligence that supports a
particular strategic direction that you think we should pursue.
Also note, that I will be authoring a report on Ecosystems at roughly the
end of march on the concept of Ecosystems, that will be an input into the
Open Infrastructure Report that is being jointly developed by the Forward
Foundation, OK and the P2P Foundation. The broader topic is Ecologies and
Ecosystems.
Any substantive analysis could be integrated into my portion of the report.
Full credit will obviously be given to the contributing authours.
Let me know what you think.
> Share your thoughts, please
> James
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> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:15 AM, <openkollab+noreply at googlegroups.com<openkollab%2Bnoreply at googlegroups.com>
> > wrote:
>
>> Today's Topic Summary
>>
>> Group: http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab/topics
>>
>> - CloudFab Update & More<#1261d8c0964eff92_1261c3cd721faf57_group_thread_0>[5 Updates]
>> - Ecosystems: an explanation of their relevance as a practical
>> organizing principle in a networked world<#1261d8c0964eff92_1261c3cd721faf57_group_thread_1>[1 Update]
>>
>> Topic: CloudFab Update & More<http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab/t/bc050aa1e4c6c189>
>>
>> Eric Hunting <erichunting at gmail.com> Jan 10 09:50AM -0700 ^<#1261d8c0964eff92_1261c3cd721faf57_digest_top>
>>
>> Actively, there's Open Pario (
>> http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu:3000/) Samuel mentioned earlier
>> and the Open Innovation directory project (
>> http://open-innovation-projects.org/) and harkopen (
>> http://twitter.com/harkopen) and Open Source Machine (
>> http://opensourcemachine.org/), which are both more blog-like
>> directories. I strongly suspect that at some point Sourceforge will get into
>> the act too, once the idea of open hardware reaches a certain critical mass
>> in the traditional open software community. I've noticed there seems to be
>> some reluctance in that community to embrace this concept, as if many see it
>> as a passing fad. Maybe the current open hardware projects haven't been
>> sufficiently structured enough to be taken seriously by programmers. Or
>> maybe they're just getting old. That community seems to have been missing
>> the boat or coming on late on a number of things lately, like the OLPC, the
>> software package revolution, net-appliance-based personal computing (what I
>> call distributed computers), ubiquitous computing, open microprocessors,
>> virtual computers (based on programmable gate arrays), etc.
>>
>> There's also my own ToolBook concept, but that's still just a proposal
>> and it's more focused on the notion of a publishing cooperative as a means
>> of economic support for open hardware development within a collaborative
>> community of Makers, writers, and graphic/media artists. The basic idea is
>> that it's pursuing free and open designs and technologies and a
>> collectivization of open industrial knowledge but are earning a basic living
>> for its participants and supporting the overhead of this work and shared
>> workshop facilities by the income from publishing media about it. (it
>> sometimes looks like Make Media is evolving in this direction, but won't
>> actually commit to something like this) It would also have a world outreach
>> side where it would be using some of its first-world income to support
>> third-world knowledge and appropriate technology distribution through mobile
>> fab labs -which, of course, gives our Maker community very practical things
>> to devise open hardware solutions for. (like the flat-pak refrigerator
>> concept we've been discussing in Open Manufacturing lately)
>>
>> I'd be happy to contribute where I can, though I've been stretched
>> thin lately. I'm trying to find a way to transition out of the college
>> textbook brokering business I've really come to dislike. (it's gotten to
>> where it's hard for me to even read a book for pleasure anymore because
>> every time I pick one up the thought of the blatant and ubiquitous
>> corruption in academia, the mafia-like practices of the publishers, the
>> growing right-wing political corruption of textbook content and its export
>> overseas, the casual lying and cheating of everyone in the industry at the
>> expense of students, and the worsening resentment of the students themselves
>> just fills me with a sense of disgust) I've two key projects that may lead
>> to this; a T-slot Sourcebook project which is intended to be an introduction
>> to the potential of extruded aluminum T-slot profiles -like the old 80:20
>> system and the new MakeBeam- and the Utilihab project, which is the
>> development of an open source plug-in house-building system based on larger
>> T-slot profiles. (see
>> http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/File:T-SlotPavilion1b.jpg
>> http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/File:T-SlotPavilion1a.jpg
>> http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/File:MarineEcoVillage.jpg
>> http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/File:MarineEcoVillage12.jpg) But I'm sort
>> of stymied by a lack of at-hand workshop facilities. Projects like yours,
>> though, may help as they establish networks of fabricators I might be able
>> to contract production from and also as a way of hosting info for these
>> projects for their own promotion. I'm also very active in the space advocacy
>> community and have been working for some years on a futurist writing project
>> called TMP2 (http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) which, if I ever
>> find sufficient illustration, is also intended to produce a book and simple
>> Venus Project style films. So you'll have to bear with me if I'm behind the
>> curve a lot.
>>
>> Eric Hunting
>> erichunting at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Suresh Fernando wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Suresh Fernando <suresh at radical-inclusion.com> Jan 10 09:01AM -0800 ^<#1261d8c0964eff92_1261c3cd721faf57_digest_top>
>>
>> Eric,
>>
>> Can we arrange a time for a quick chat on Skype? You can find me at
>> sureshf.
>> Over the coming couple of weeks I want to talk to a few folk that are
>> working in this space to get a better feel for what is actually going
>> on.
>> Right now I'm still operating at a pretty theoretical level.
>>
>> You obviously know a lot about the space and have an informed
>> perspective.
>>
>> If this works for you, just give me a couple of times and I'll
>> confirm.
>>
>> Thanks for your interest.
>>
>> Suresh
>>
>>
>> --
>> Suresh Fernando
>> WEBSITE: http://radical-inclusion.com
>> WEBSITE: http://wiki.openkollab.com
>> BLOG: http://sureshfernando.wordpress.com
>> TWITTER: http://twitter.com/sureshf
>> FACEBOOK: facebook.com/suresh.fernando
>> 604-889-8167
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> FX Lab <lab_fx at yahoo.co.uk> Jan 10 09:33PM ^<#1261d8c0964eff92_1261c3cd721faf57_digest_top>
>>
>> See how involvement in communities of practice, is helping Rio Tinto
>> people share expertise and collaborate across the group :
>>
>> http://www.riotinto.com/whatweproduce/376_video_library_6891.asp
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Sun, 10/1/10, Suresh Fernando <suresh at radical-inclusion.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Suresh Fernando <suresh at radical-inclusion.com>
>> Subject: [OK] Re: CloudFab Update & More
>> To: "Eric Hunting" <erichunting at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "Michel Bauwens" <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>, "Nick Pinkston" <
>> nick at cloudfab.com>, "Samuel Rose" <samuel.rose at gmail.com>,
>> openkollab at googlegroups.com,
>> media-ecology-workshop-09 at googlegroups.com,
>> Cooperationcommons at googlegroups.com, "Peer-To-Peer Research List" <
>> p2presearch at listcultures.org>
>> Date: Sunday, 10 January, 2010, 17:01
>>
>>
>> Eric,
>>
>> Can we arrange a time for a quick chat on Skype? You can find me at
>> sureshf. Over the coming couple of weeks I want to talk to a few folk that
>> are working in this space to get a better feel for what is actually going
>> on. Right now I'm still operating at a pretty theoretical level.
>>
>> You obviously know a lot about the space and have an informed
>> perspective.
>>
>> If this works for you, just give me a couple of times and I'll
>> confirm.
>>
>> Thanks for your interest.
>>
>> Suresh
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Eric Hunting <erichunting at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Actively, there's Open Pario (
>> http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu:3000/) Samuel mentioned earlier
>> and the Open Innovation directory project (
>> http://open-innovation-projects.org/) and harkopen (
>> http://twitter.com/harkopen) and Open Source Machine (
>> http://opensourcemachine.org/), which are both more blog-like
>> directories. I strongly suspect that at some point Sourceforge will get into
>> the act too, once the idea of open hardware reaches a certain critical mass
>> in the traditional open software community. I've noticed there seems to be
>> some reluctance in that community to embrace this concept, as if many see it
>> as a passing fad. Maybe the current open hardware projects haven't been
>> sufficiently structured enough to be taken seriously by programmers. Or
>> maybe they're just getting old. That community seems to have been missing
>> the boat or coming on late on a number of things lately, like the OLPC, the
>> software package revolution, net-appliance-based personal
>> computing (what I call distributed computers), ubiquitous computing,
>> open microprocessors, virtual computers (based on programmable gate arrays),
>> etc.
>>
>> There's also my own ToolBook concept, but that's still just a proposal
>> and it's more focused on the notion of a publishing cooperative as a means
>> of economic support for open hardware development within a collaborative
>> community of Makers, writers, and graphic/media artists. The basic idea is
>> that it's pursuing free and open designs and technologies and a
>> collectivization of open industrial knowledge but are earning a basic living
>> for its participants and supporting the overhead of this work and shared
>> workshop facilities by the income from publishing media about it. (it
>> sometimes looks like Make Media is evolving in this direction, but won't
>> actually commit to something like this) It would also have a world outreach
>> side where it would be using some of its first-world income to support
>> third-world knowledge and appropriate technology distribution through mobile
>> fab labs -which, of course, gives our Maker community very practical things
>> to devise open
>> hardware solutions for. (like the flat-pak refrigerator concept we've
>> been discussing in Open Manufacturing lately)
>>
>> I'd be happy to contribute where I can, though I've been stretched
>> thin lately. I'm trying to find a way to transition out of the college
>> textbook brokering business I've really come to dislike. (it's gotten to
>> where it's hard for me to even read a book for pleasure anymore because
>> every time I pick one up the thought of the blatant and ubiquitous
>> corruption in academia, the mafia-like practices of the publishers, the
>> growing right-wing political corruption of textbook content and its export
>> overseas, the casual lying and cheating of everyone in the industry at the
>> expense of students, and the worsening resentment of the students themselves
>> just fills me with a sense of disgust) I've two key projects that may lead
>> to this; a T-slot Sourcebook project which is intended to be an introduction
>> to the potential of extruded aluminum T-slot profiles -like the old 80:20
>> system and the new MakeBeam- and the Utilihab project, which is the
>> development of an open
>> source plug-in house-building system based on larger T-slot profiles.
>> (see http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/File:T-SlotPavilion1b.jpg
>> http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/File:T-SlotPavilion1a.jpg
>> http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/File:MarineEcoVillage.jpg
>> http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/File:MarineEcoVillage12.jpg) But I'm sort
>> of stymied by a lack of at-hand workshop facilities. Projects like yours,
>> though, may help as they establish networks of fabricators I might be able
>> to contract production from and also as a way of hosting info for these
>> projects for their own promotion. I'm also very active in the space advocacy
>> community and have been working for some years on a futurist writing project
>> called TMP2 (http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) which, if I ever
>> find sufficient illustration, is also intended to produce a book and simple
>> Venus Project style films. So you'll have to bear with me if I'm behind the
>> curve a lot.
>>
>>
>> Eric Hunting
>> erichunting at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Suresh Fernando wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Also, we are in the process of putting a team together to scale this
>> process up. Your understanding of the issues in the space would be
>> invaluable. Let me know if you would be interested in getting involved in
>> some way.
>>
>> > Regards,
>>
>> > Suresh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Suresh Fernando
>> WEBSITE: http://radical-inclusion.com
>> WEBSITE: http://wiki.openkollab.com
>> BLOG: http://sureshfernando.wordpress.com
>> TWITTER: http://twitter.com/sureshf
>> FACEBOOK: facebook.com/suresh.fernando
>> 604-889-8167
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Suresh Fernando <suresh at radical-inclusion.com> Jan 10 01:44PM -0800 ^<#1261d8c0964eff92_1261c3cd721faf57_digest_top>
>>
>> Thanks Xavier!
>>
>> When you get a moment maybe introduce yourself to the group...
>>
>>
>> --
>> Suresh Fernando
>> WEBSITE: http://radical-inclusion.com
>> WEBSITE: http://wiki.openkollab.com
>> BLOG: http://sureshfernando.wordpress.com
>> TWITTER: http://twitter.com/sureshf
>> FACEBOOK: facebook.com/suresh.fernando
>> 604-889-8167
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> Jan 11 11:35AM +0700 ^<#1261d8c0964eff92_1261c3cd721faf57_digest_top>
>>
>> by the way, none of the open pario links is available from thailand
>> ...
>>
>> > some way.
>>
>> > > Regards,
>>
>> > > Suresh
>>
>> --
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>> thank:
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>> Topic: Ecosystems: an explanation of their relevance as a practical
>> organizing principle in a networked world<http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab/t/174ccd874d0f18db>
>>
>> Suresh Fernando <suresh at radical-inclusion.com> Jan 10 07:58AM -0800 ^<#1261d8c0964eff92_1261c3cd721faf57_digest_top>
>>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> The featured project at OpenKollab is the Ecosystem Pooled Fund
>> Initiative<
>> http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASJ9wl9qbZEzZGM0Z2Jnc2pfMTI1MjhxcXM5eGNq&hl=en
>> >,
>> the objective of which is to develop an innovative funding structure
>> to
>> finance early stage social venture
>> projects<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship>.
>> In developing this structure OpenKollab will begin the process of
>> filling an
>> existing whole in the capital markets landscape; the absence of
>> investment
>> capital for *early stage social entrepreneurs.*
>>
>> Central to the structure of the fund concept is the notion of
>> *ecosystems*.
>> It also comes up in a lot of my communication, it is a part of the
>> structure
>> of our blog <http://mudball.net/openkollab> and it is prominently
>> featured
>> in this <http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/openkollab-project-matching>,
>> and
>> other, documents and presentations.
>>
>> *I think that it is time that I make it clear why the idea of
>> ecosystems is
>> central to the OpenKollab view of the world.*
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>> *What is an Ecosystem?* In general terms, an ecosystem can be
>> understood as
>> a natural set of relationships that exist between projects that makes
>> it
>> possible that they *collaborate*. Hence projects that are a part of an
>> ecosystem interact with each other, the leaders know each other, and
>> the
>> projects are mutually interdependent in some way.
>>
>> In more specific terms, an ecosystem can consist of projects that
>> share the
>> same larger goals, that share common team members, share common
>> customers or
>> markets, that are a part of the same value chain (partners, suppliers
>> etc.),
>> share a common technology infrastructure etc. There is no theoretical
>> limit
>> to what is constitutive of an ecosystem and, in reality, this will be
>> determined in practice by talking to projects that might form a part
>> of an
>> ecosystem. This is what we are doing as we map out the Distributed
>> Manufacturing Space<
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiJ9wl9qbZEzdGRYY2YzRlhHemVMT3ZFd1otSHp0anc&hl=en
>> >.
>>
>>
>> *So at its essence, an ecosystem view of the world makes sense is if
>> collaboration across boundaries makes sense in the world that we live
>> in.*
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>> *Does Collaboration Across Organizational Boundaries Make Sense?* This
>> is a
>> large question that could be understood in two ways:
>>
>> 1. Is collaboration, *as a principle of engagement, *important in the
>> modern world?
>>
>> 2. Is collaboration *due to change in communications mechanisms* more
>> relevant today than it was in the past?
>>
>> The answer is a wholehearted yes to both questions!
>>
>> That said, for the purposes of this discussion let’s focus on 2. I
>> will
>> treat 1 on a different occasion.
>>
>> In addressing two I suspect that I am preaching to the choir. This is
>> to say
>> that we all know that the modern world, from the standpoint of
>> communication, has the following features:
>>
>> · Internet connectivity penetration rates are increasing
>>
>> · Bandwith limitations are being reduced
>>
>> · The cost of communication is dropping (thank you Skype!)
>>
>> · Interoperability protocols, applications etc. are evolving
>>
>> · Social networking platforms (Facebook...) are changing the culture
>> of communication
>>
>> · Processing power is being pushed to the edge of the network
>> (Smartphones etc.)
>>
>> · The real time infrastructure is evolving (Twitter)
>>
>>
>> All of these, and other, socio-technological forces lead to an
>> environment
>> and culture of interaction where :
>>
>> · Information flows freely across organizational boundaries
>>
>> · Geographic constraints are less meaningful
>>
>> · Structural limitations on information management don’t constrain
>> participation (thousands of people can work on projects!)
>>
>> · Meetings can be run virtually
>>
>> · Projects can be managed asynchronously
>>
>> · Projects can be scaled to involve many people with minimal
>> incremental cost
>>
>> · Your communications infrastructure can be scaled to include many
>> people with minimal incremental cost
>>
>>
>> Hence the inhibitors to collaboration and engagement are being
>> reduced.
>>
>> The coordination cost of working together is dropping dramatically. It
>> is
>> simply much easier, and less costly to coordinate the activity of many
>> people around the world than it was in the past.
>>
>> *Or, shall we say, it makes economic sense to collaborate! *
>>
>> *It, therefore, makes sense to seek out collaboration opportunities as
>> this
>> is the most efficient means of organizing resources to satisfy larger
>> mission driven objectives! *
>>
>> (Note that, from a theoretical perspective, it remains to be seen if
>> collaboration makes sense for the purely self interested since this is
>> a *resources
>> efficiency *argument... Since this is an open question, I restrict my
>> arguments to the structure of organizational relationships in the
>> social
>> venture space.)
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>> *If it makes sense to organize ourselves collaboratively, what is the
>> best
>> way to structure organizational relationships?*
>>
>> If it is the case that the best way to achieve objectives is through
>> seeking
>> coordinated activity with others, then one must structure ones
>> relationship
>> with the world in a manner that makes possible coordinated activity of
>> this
>> sort.
>>
>> In short, one must attempt to organize activity in collaboration with
>> others
>> by developing, or participating in, the infrastructure that makes it
>> possible for you to:
>>
>> · *Have visibility into the activity of others in* a manner that
>> will make it possible to identify collaboration opportunities.
>>
>> · *Communicate and explore* ways of working with other projects.
>>
>> Again, the reason one wants to do this is that the infrastructure cost
>> of
>> communication and information exchange is nominal.
>>
>> Gains that you make in what you learn from each other, and the
>> opportunities
>> that will evolve, will far outstrip the cost of the infrastructure
>> over the
>> long term.
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>> *Ecosystems: the model that supports this view of Intra-Organizational
>> Interaction?*
>>
>> Given the above, we can understand ecosystems as groups of
>> organizations
>> that:
>>
>> · Are related to each other in such a way that they can support and
>> learn from each other
>>
>> · Are connected by a common communications/collaboration
>> infrastructure
>>
>> · That explore, in an open ended way, ways of working together that
>> are mutually beneficial.
>>
>> It makes sense to do this because there is much to be learned from
>> each
>> other and it costs little to develop the systems that make this
>> possible.
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>> *Ecosystems, Risk Mitigation and Financing*
>>
>> In organizing groups of projects in this manner, the probability of
>> the
>> success of the group of projects is increased, thereby also mitigating
>> risk
>> for investors. In mitigating risk for investors, we will be able to
>> flow
>> capital into projects that sorely lack capital at this time.
>>
>> This is the aim of the Ecosystem Pooled Fund Initiative.
>>
>>
>>
>> *I hope you will collaborate with us as we work towards bringing to
>> fruition
>> these possibilities...*
>>
>>
>> --
>> Suresh Fernando
>> WEBSITE: http://radical-inclusion.com
>> WEBSITE: http://wiki.openkollab.com
>> BLOG: http://sureshfernando.wordpress.com
>> TWITTER: http://twitter.com/sureshf
>> FACEBOOK: facebook.com/suresh.fernando
>> 604-889-8167
>>
>>
>>
>>
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