# Changemappers

> Connecting changemakers.

## Summary
Changemakers want to solve big social problems. Changemappers helps them find & support other changemakers, social causes, communities & organisations to achieve long-lasting impactful systemic change.

> "The narrative of hope, possibility and regeneration is existing in small forms and in so many places across the planet right now. Yet these places and these changemakers are often not connected to each other and are often not equipped with the right methods and tools that would allow them to take their initiatives to the next level." - **Otto Scharmer**


## Our Story...

**PHASE: CRYSTALLISING and VALIDATING our concept**

Gaspar Incze: I started in late 2019 out of a realisation (following the failure of my first social startup, later public benefit foundation called SpeechAngel) that we changemakers, alone, are doomed for failure.
I talked to social innovators, students, volunteers, leaders, scientists, and others to understand their world, their perspectives.

In parallel, in Sept 2021 I have reached out to Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary about a potential cooperation.
In 2022 we built our partnership, in 2023 we had an extensive round of interviews, in 2024 we continue into bulding a prototype. It is visible that we can go very slowly due to lack of funding but we progress step by step using time what we have.

In late 2023 I have applied to the u.lab 2x program (thanks to Phil!), later met with Gyuri and Anna on the way.
Together we discussed, shifted the focus even more inwards, did a Map of Meaning workshop and most importantly, started to embody more and more the world we want to live in.

I am also in frequent contact with several informal groups, e.g. love-based economy, self-organised groups engaged in local civic activites, and members of the Hungarian Innovation and Talent Council. Together we experience transformation through our interactions and these are all reflected in the evolution of the system design...

Everything around Changemappers is free and open source to benefit all humanity, the planet, and beyond.

## Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP)

ChangeMappers stands as a beacon of hope and action, blending local impact with global connectivity to drive systemic societal change. Our Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP) is to empower and unite changemakers worldwide, offering not only shared knowledge and collaboration but also crucial mental-emotional support and resources for growth, systemic thinking and volunteer engagement.

### Core Principles of Changemappers' MTP:

* **Being a Changemaker is a Journey**
Being a changemaker means evolving from opposition to vision-aligned, goal-oriented approaches with a win-win-win mindset. This journey requires emotional maturity, a stable life foundation, embracing diverse perspectives, and viewing failure as growth. Changemappers is committed to supporting individuals throughout this transformative process of continuous learning and embodying the change they wish to see.

* Discover
* **Discover Your Changemaker Archetype**
https://gemini.google.com/share/012a605efe4a

* **Empowering Changemakers with Holistic Support**
Our platform offers essential mental-emotional resources through community encouragement, actionable guidance, and both peer and professional solution-focused support.

* **Best Existing Solution:** https://29k.org/

* **Skill Development for Diverse Challenges**
Changemappers provides a collaborative space for developing skills crucial for addressing both local and global challenges, ensuring context-sensitive and effective actions for maximum impact.

* **Uniting Global Insights with Local Actions**
We bridge global knowledge with local initiatives, enriching community efforts with diverse worldwide perspectives to amplify their effectiveness and reach.

* **Fostering Systemic Change**
We address root causes of social issues by empowering changemakers to initiate meaningful community-level changes that contribute to broader systemic shifts, helping members navigate this complex work.

* **Transforming Volunteer Engagement**
Changemappers elevates volunteering by facilitating value-aligned matchmaking between projects and volunteers, focusing on conscious personal growth and professional skill development while helping initiatives with limited resources assemble effective teams.

* **Leveraging Polycentric Governance**
Changemappers promotes nested decision-making structures that balance local autonomy with global coherence, allowing initiatives to self-organize while maintaining alignment with larger systemic goals. This approach recognizes that complex problems require governance at multiple scales with appropriate coordination.

* **Cultivating Evolutionary Purpose**
The platform explicitly supports initiatives that address humanity's evolutionary challenges by fostering emergence, self-organization, and collective intelligence. We prioritize projects that strengthen social-ecological resilience and facilitate transition toward regenerative systems.

* **Applying Network Intelligence**
We strategically design for network effects by identifying and supporting high-leverage connection points between changemakers, resources, and initiatives. By mapping relationship patterns and facilitating strategic bridges between diverse network clusters, we maximize collective impact while minimizing coordination costs.

* **Developing Integrative Consciousness**
Changemappers nurtures the capacity for systems awareness, complexity thinking, and integral perspectives necessary for addressing today's interconnected challenges. We support members in developing cognitive flexibility, holding paradox, and integrating multiple ways of knowing—essential capacities for navigating humanity's transition to more sustainable and just systems.

**Join Changemappers: A Community of Support and Action**

Join us at Changemappers, where you can be part of a movement that values global unity and local action, supported by a community that understands the mental and emotional demands of changemaking. Engage in collaborative projects, develop diverse skills, find volunteers, and share knowledge, all while being part of a network that cares for your well-being.

Your path to making a difference, both locally and globally, is supported here. Join Changemappers and be part of a community that empowers, connects, and sustains.

## Pitch

### Who we are doing this for
People who organize communities or volunteer regularly to help their local communities towards systemic changes.

### Problem statement
Many changemakers feel alone in their own community as innovators. They struggle with specific problems that are already solved elsewhere. Resources are very limited for independent social innovation. Burnout is a threat under difficult conditions.

### Solution
Connect changemakers based on values, location, interest and availability to unlock full potential. Connect them to relevant solutions. Help them find their true purpose, allies, volunteers, knowledge and resources to act.

### Similar portals
Facebook groups, Quora, Stack exchange, Minds, SDGs in Action, Steem.
Jodel, Nextdoor are too “hyperlocal” (not designed to connect changemakers across borders) or not specific to changemakers.

### Service
Changemappers provide a platform where people dedicated for systemic change can find each other and solutions to social challenges.

### Unique value set
Focused on the needs of changemakers, supporting self-organization. Map-centered simple and visual interface. Increasing volunteering. Timing. Privacy-centered, transparent, open-source.

### Sustainability model
Volunteering and donations support the platform. Certified ethical organizations can place ads.

### Creation process
Design thinking, research in partnership with universities, interviews, problem synthesis, prototype (MVP/MLP) development, prototype validation, crowdfunding.

### Funding strategy
Approach people and self-organizing communities directly. Community building. Crowdfunding. B-corps. EU, UN, foundations, philanthropists.

- Networks funder list
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WaObhkpChUTn-6aR7EyboC5ZXmmIpwr5-yEaxx9j2Pg/edit#heading=h.sya5msmcocx5

### Users
Est. 30 million people worldwide, 3400+ B-corporations and about 1 million organizations who work for systemic change, including UN 17 SDGs.

### Marketing strategy
Direct reach. Viral marketing. Networking, building community and strategic partnerships. Success stories in social media.

* Presencing Institute (Part of MITx u.lab - Theory U course): https://www.presencing.org/transforming-capitalism-lab/gallery/changemappers-connecting-changemakers

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# **Changemappers Analysis through the 80.000 hours model**

https://80000hours.org/

## **1. Scale (Significance)**
### **How important is the problem, and how many people does it affect?**

- **Bridging Global Insights with Local Actions**
- One of the biggest challenges in social innovation is that **local initiatives often remain isolated** and fail to leverage global knowledge.
- A system that effectively connects global insights with local actions can **increase the efficiency and innovation potential of local projects**.

- **Fostering Systemic Change**
- Many social initiatives provide **symptomatic relief rather than addressing root causes**.
- A system that supports deep learning, systemic thinking, and strategic impact can **significantly enhance the effectiveness of changemakers**.

- **Transforming the Volunteering Experience**
- Finding and coordinating volunteers is often **time-consuming and inefficient**, which limits the impact of resource-constrained initiatives.
- A platform that **matches volunteers with projects based on values, skills, and personal growth goals** can foster more meaningful and sustainable engagement.

#### **Key Metrics for Scale:**
- **How many social innovators and volunteers are actively seeking learning and networking opportunities?**
- **How many local projects could benefit from global insights and expertise?**
- **How effective are existing solutions in addressing these needs?**

**Conclusion:** The problem is **highly significant**, as improving support systems for changemakers can amplify local efforts and create broader global impact.

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## **2. Neglectedness**
### **How neglected is the problem?**

- Existing platforms (e.g., **Ashoka, Echoing Green, Skoll Foundation**) focus on social innovation, but they are often **exclusive and not accessible to all changemakers**.
- There is **a gap in integrating global and local knowledge-sharing**, leaving many innovators disconnected from valuable resources.
- Volunteer recruitment and coordination tools exist, but few provide **value-based matching** or opportunities for skill-building alongside social impact.

#### **Key Metrics for Neglectedness:**
- **How many open-access platforms exist for supporting changemakers?**
- **How effective are current volunteer coordination systems?**
- **How many initiatives actively facilitate global-local knowledge exchange?**

**Conclusion:** The problem is **still largely neglected**, particularly in terms of **accessible, inclusive platforms for learning, networking, and action-oriented collaboration**.

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## **3. Solvability (Tractability)**
### **How feasible is it to address the problem?**

Potential solutions include:
- **Open-access mentorship networks** for social innovators.
- **A digital platform** for global-local knowledge exchange and collaboration.
- **Smarter volunteer-matching systems** based on values and skill development.
- **Integrated learning modules** to enhance changemakers’ strategic thinking and effectiveness.

#### **Key Metrics for Solvability:**
- **How many changemakers participate in new, open learning and mentorship networks?**
- **How many projects see measurable improvements using enhanced knowledge-sharing and volunteer platforms?**

**Conclusion:** The problem is **solvable** with existing technology and organizational strategies, but solutions need to be **integrated and widely accessible** to maximize impact.

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## **Final Summary**

| Criterion | Rating (1-5) | Explanation |
|------------------|------------|-------------|
| **Scale** | ★★★★★ (5/5) | Improving support systems for changemakers can drive global impact. |
| **Neglectedness** | ★★★★☆ (4/5) | Existing initiatives are limited and not inclusive for all changemakers. |
| **Solvability** | ★★★★☆ (4/5) | The right tools and strategies exist, but integration is key. |

➡ **Recommendation:** Develop a **comprehensive, open-access platform** that:
1. **Connects changemakers with global knowledge and local project opportunities.**
2. **Enhances volunteer engagement through value-based matching and skill development.**
3. **Supports systemic thinking and long-term impact strategies.**

## Systemic issues

* [Rising inequality affecting more than two-thirds of the globe, but it’s not inevitable: new UN report](https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/01/1055681)

Here is an English summary of the evaluation of the recommended research questions and their gaps in low-resource changemaker environments:

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## Evaluation of Research Questions and Gaps in Low-Resource Changemaker Environments

**Main finding:** Most of the recommended research questions are moderately to severely underexplored in the context of social innovators and changemakers. The largest knowledge gaps lie in developing operational, scalable, and low-cost solutions, particularly for volunteer-driven and paradigm-shifting projects.

1. **Trust Dynamics Among Changemakers and "Trust Passport" Systems**
Research score: 25/100
Existing passport systems focus mostly on theoretical or financial sectors. There are no specific community trust passport frameworks tailored for changemakers.
Current top insights:
- Trust builds on mutual commitment and verified past collaborations.
- Decentralized authentication (e.g., blockchain-based digital credentials) is key.
- Context-specific feedback integrated dynamically into reputation indexes.
Major gap: Low-cost, easily deployable digital infrastructure standards.

2. **Antifragile and Hackproof Evaluation Systems for Community Decisions**
Score: 30/100
Concept of antifragility appears in digital health interventions but lacks accepted metrics in social innovation.
Current top insights:
- Agile, iterative feedback loops addressing weaknesses and resource constraints.
- Open, auditable records (e.g., public changelogs) to enhance hackproof nature.
- Collective intelligence ranking aggregating participant evaluations.
Major gap: Unified, customizable, low-cost platforms.

3. **Measuring Knowledge and Value Contribution in Volunteer Teams**
Score: 20/100
Mostly corporate internal frameworks exist; almost none for community volunteer groups.
Current top insights:
- Peer-to-peer 360° evaluations with simple digital forms.
- Gamified badge systems to make contributions visible.
- Project-based KPIs, e.g., task completion points.
Major gap: Non-bureaucratic, motivation-honoring measurement tools.

4. **Matchmaking Mechanisms for Diverse Changemakers**
Score: 35/100
Some business/nonprofit matchmaking platforms exist (e.g., Social Innovation Match), but no specialized algorithms for changemakers.
Current top insights:
- Weighted keyword matching based on volunteer profiles.
- Clustering by shared values, competence, and mission.
- Live moderated “speed dating” roundtables.
Major gap: Automated tools that work offline and in low-internet settings.

5. **AI in Changemaker Personal and Collective Development Plans**
Score: 40/100
AI is used widely in coaching and HR but lacks tailored solutions for social innovators.
Current top insights:
- NLP-based self-reflection helpers with structured questioning.
- Adaptive learning pathways based on skill profiles.
- Predictive analytics on project success odds.
Major gap: Offline, community-based, free AI tools deployable on mobile devices.

6. **Long-Term Evolution of Distributed, Open Collaboration Platforms**
Score: 50/100
Wikipedia's long-term study is exemplary but independent research on other platforms is sparse.
Current top insights:
- Dual governance models (technical + community).
- Self-sustaining funding mechanisms (e.g., micro-donations).
- Formalized member conflict resolution procedures.
Major gap: Longitudinal, multi-platform comparative studies.

7. **Trends and Strategies in Paradigm-Shifting Initiatives**
Score: 45/100
Several case studies and synthetic reviews exist but less focus on low-resource groups.
Current top insights:
- Network-based resource-sharing models.
- Open-source resource kits (e.g., GitHub).
- Twin local-global partnership projects.
Major gap: Measuring scalable, low-cost mentoring program effectiveness.

**Summary:** Low-resource changemaker and volunteer-driven paradigm-shifting projects face critical deficits in **pragmatic digital or hybrid tools and collaborative standards** that are simultaneously:

- Low-cost and easy to implement
- Open-source and auditable
- Culturally adaptive and offline-capable

Focusing research and development on these deficits could drive the greatest practical innovation and knowledge advancement.

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Sources:
- [PMC article on antifragility](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9206209/)
- [Social Innovation Match platform](https://socialinnovationplus.eu/social-innovation-match-sim/)
- [Sciencedirect article on social innovation](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004016252500191X)
- Additional references on digital trust systems, matchmaking, and AI applications:
- [Changemakers – A Guide for Empowering Students as Researchers (York St John University)](https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/media/content-assets/research/institute-for-social-justice/Changemakers---A-Guide-for-Empowering-Students-as-Researchers.pdf)
- [The Possibilists 2025 Report](https://thepossibilists.org/2025report/)
- [Restless Development / Wellcome Trust Research Report (2022)](https://restlessdevelopment.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Welcome-Trust-Research.pdf)
- [Blueprint for Changemakers (ChangeLab Solutions, 2019)](https://www.changelabsolutions.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/Blueprint-For-Changemakers_FINAL_201904.pdf)
- [The Possibilists 2023 Global Study](https://thepossibilists.org/2023-study/)
- [Canadian Index of Wellbeing](https://wellbeingindex.ca)
- [Community Changemakers – Eric Sandelands Substack](https://ericsandelands.substack.com/p/community-changemakers)
- [Johnson & Johnson – Health Equity Changemakers Awardees](https://www.jnj.com/media-center/press-releases/top-local-changemakers-addressing-health-equity-gaps-across-the-u-s-named-johnson-johnson-health-equity-innovation-challenge-awardees)
- [IAS – Closing Scientific Gaps (International AIDS Society)](https://www.iasociety.org/closing-scientific-gaps)

# We are inspired by

### Educational Resources
- **Wikipedia**
- The greatest and open online repository for human knowledge.
- **U-School (Presencing Institute)**
- Empowering local solidarity circles globally with programs and materials for deep conversations.
- [U-School Main](https://www.u-school.org/)
- [U-School Resources](https://www.u-school.org/resources)
- [MITx Online Course](https://mitxonline.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITxT+15.671.1x/)
- [Presencing Institute Blog](https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/democratizing-access-to-the-tools-methods-for-societal-transformation-10300d92f3cd)
- **Khan Academy**
- https://www.khanacademy.org/

- **Inner Development Goals**
A movement that is complementary to the sustainable development goals. It focuses on the inner condition necessary for outer change.
https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/

- **Environmental Humanities**, emerging in the 21st century, merges traditional humanities with sciences and arts to address environmental issues. The book introduces this field within the Hungarian context, covering topics like environmental philosophy, anthropology, conservation, and social justice, while highlighting community responses to ecological challenges in Hungary.
https://openaccess.hu/node/508779/metadata
- Changemakers and Activism course: learn about Dyslexic Thinking and the vital role it plays in creating powerful changemakers.
- https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=12096

### Open Source and Technology
- **Creators of Open-Source Licenses, like AGPL**
- Ensuring that platforms are owned by everyone and respect the 4 freedom rights.
- [Free Software Philosophy](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html)
- [AGPL License](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html)
- [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/)
- **Agile and Lean Mindset, Lean UX, and Human-Centered Design**
- Enhancing human relationships through technology instead of destroying and monetizing them.
- [Center for Humane Technology](https://www.humanetech.com/)
- [The Social Dilemma](https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/)
- **OpenStreetMap**
- A collaborative project creating a free, editable map of the world, enhancing global understanding through open-source geographic data.
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/)
- **Loopy**
- An open-source tool for thinking in systems through Causal Loop Diagrams.
- [Loopy Main](https://ncase.me/loopy/)
- [Loopy GitHub](https://github.com/ncase/loopy)
- **Polis**
- Polis is an open-source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
- [Polis webpage](https://pol.is)
- [Polis GitHub](https://github.com/compdemocracy/)

- **Vizualizations for social good**
- Connecting data enthusiasts with mission-driven organizations
- https://www.vizforsocialgood.com/
- [vis4good resources](https://vis4good.github.io/resources)

- **PARTIMAP**
- PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map questionnaire for those,
for those who believe that public funding for development should be consulted.
- https://www.partimap.eu/
- [Partimap Github](https://github.com/k-monitor/partimap)

- **...**
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- [...]()

### Social Impact and Altruism
- **Effective Altruism**
- Promoting the philosophy of making the world better with reason and evidence.
- [Effective Altruism](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/)
- [Peter Singer TED Talk](https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_effective_altruism)
- **UN - THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development**
- Uniting the world through global goals, featuring the Catalyst 2030 Theory of Change.
- [Sustainable Development Goals](https://sdgs.un.org/goals)
- [Catalyst 2030 Theory of Change PDF](https://catalyst2030.net/wp-content/uploads/Catalyst-2030-Theory-of-Change-21-April-2021.pdf)

### Learning from Failures and Innovation
- **Admitting Failure**
- Learning from the failures of others in various endeavors.
- [Admitting Failure](https://www.admittingfailure.org/)
- **Liberating Structures**
- Encouraging inclusion and engagement in organizations and communities.
- [Liberating Structures](https://www.liberatingstructures.com/)
- **The Community Tool Box**
- Helping with community development through action, teaching, and training.
- [Community Tool Box](https://ctb.ku.edu/en)
- **Social Innovation Atlas**
- Mapping and documenting social innovation around the world.
- [Social Innovation Atlas](https://www.socialinnovationatlas.net/map)
- **Mapping an Emerging Ecosystem**
- An emerging ecosystem is seeking a radical, alternative approach to social change. One that is simultaneous paradigmatic, integrated and engaged (PIE). The project provides a map including key features, ideas, organizations and initiatives.
- https://ecosystem.lifeitself.org/
- **Co-Intelligence Institute**
- Promoting innovations in collective wisdom, co-creativity & collaborative governance
- https://www.co-intelligence.institute/

### Books, Publications and Media
- **Fearless Change Patterns (books)**
- [Fearless Change Patterns](https://fearlesschangepatterns.com/)
- **Wisdom of Trauma (movie)**
- Exploring the impact of trauma and paths to healing.
- [Wisdom of Trauma](https://thewisdomoftrauma.com/)
- Jeremy Rifkin: **Zero marginal cost society**
- Albert-László Barabási: **Network Science**
- **ENVIENTA**: https://sto.envienta.com/downloads/envienta_white_paper.pdf

## To be explored

Our current civilization is crumbling, leading to a period of crisis and potential rebirth – what we could call a "second renaissance". There are many terms associated with it: metamodern, metacrisis, integral, teal, liminal web, gameB, regenerative and more.

The Second Renaissance project is a simple introduction to this moment of civilization crisis and awakening — and the emerging ecosystem related to it.
https://secondrenaissance.net/

Life wants to have more life. That’s why we can consider generativity a core attribute of life itself, present in all manifestation of living, biological or social. In the world of humans, that broadest sense of the term informs as various and more special uses of it as adult development psychology, organization design, technology theories, appreciative inquiry, and many other disciplines.
https://futurehow.site/generative-capabilities/

Steward-ownership is a corporate ownership structure that presents an alternative to shareholder value primacy. It ensures that companies prioritize their long-term purpose over short-term profits – by legally enshrining two principles:
https://purpose-economy.org/en/whats-steward-ownership/

Doing AI well
https://phi.institute/

Global Giving - A crowdfunding platform that connects donors with grassroots projects around the world, fostering global empathy and progress.
https://www.globalgiving.org/

Project Gutenberg - An early pioneer in free electronic books, offering over 60,000 public domain e-books. They help keep the wealth of historical literature accessible to everyone.
https://www.gutenberg.org/

Khan Academy - A non-profit educational organization providing free online courses and instructional videos across a wide range of subjects, democratizing education for all.
https://www.khanacademy.org/

Changemakers - An online community that connects social entrepreneurs around the globe to share ideas, inspire, and mentor each other.
https://www.changemakers.com/

Global Social Entrepreneurship Network (GSEN) - Amplifies the impact of social entrepreneurship through supporting social entrepreneurs with resources, knowledge, and connections.
https://www.gsen.global/

Ashoka - Fosters a global network of social entrepreneurs, offering support and resources to individuals leading social change initiatives.
https://www.ashoka.org/

In 1999, Jeff Skoll created the Foundation to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all. The Skoll Foundation catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
https://skoll.org/engage/

Integral proposes a federated, post-monetary, cybernetic cooperative economic system designed to address the structural failures of market capitalism and centralized state planning. It replaces price-based coordination with transparent, data-driven decision-making grounded in biophysical reality, ecological limits, and real human needs. The system integrates five core subsystems to coordinate governance, design, production, contribution, and feedback without profit, private ownership, or coercion. Integral is designed to emerge gradually through voluntary, cooperative nodes, scaling toward equitable access, ecological balance, and a post-scarcity trajectory.
https://integralcollective.io/

# What is next?

## 1. System Design Insights

**a) Build GAR principles into the platform itself**

* **Self-sustaining**: mechanisms for peer-to-peer exchange of value (timebanking, skills exchange, microfunding, DAO-like models).
* **Self-improving**: pattern library of what works, updated continuously by participants (wiki + AI-supported synthesis).
* **Self-evolving**: adaptive recommendation engine that surfaces new practices and connections across contexts.
* **Self-propagating**: plug-and-play kits, story packs, and community seeds so local groups can replicate Changemappers anywhere.

**b) Encode the “Trifocal Lens”**

* **1st-person**: personal dashboards (goals, reflections, journaling prompts).
* **2nd-person**: dialogue tools, structured generative conversations, facilitated by AI (like “pattern weaver bots”).
* **3rd-person**: open knowledge base that integrates research, case studies, and curated systemic insights.

**c) Relational + aesthetic layer**

* Storytelling, art, and playful myth-building woven into the interface. Example: framing projects as “expeditions” with narrative arcs instead of just task lists.

**d) Methodological pluralism baked in**

* Allow communities to choose their “lens of engagement” (e.g. indigenous wisdom, integral, systems science) but keep results translatable into a shared meta-pattern language.

**e) Governance / holarchy**

* Nested circles: personal → local → regional → global.
* Stakeholder councils with rotating participation.
* Sociocracy + pattern-based decision-making captured digitally.

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## 2. Fundraising & Global Implementation Insights

**a) Positioning for funders**

* Frame Changemappers as *“a Generative Action Research platform for planetary-scale transformation.”*
* Stress *multiple yields*: funders get innovation capacity (knowledge), scalable systemic practices (impact), and collective evolution (legacy).
* Highlight **GAR + Collaborative Hybrid Intelligence (AI as partner)** as a differentiator from traditional networks.

**b) Fundraising pathways**

* **Philanthropy**: target metamodern-aligned donors
* **EU/Global Grants**: Horizon Europe, innovation labs.
* **Corporate social innovation funds**: tech + consulting firms eager to link ESG with systemic change.
* **Community crowdfunding**: Kickstarter/Patreon-style for early adopter changemakers.

**c) Movement-building next steps**

1. **Prototype hub**: Pick one region as a microcosm to test GAR cycles.
2. **Document patterns**: Start the interactive pattern library with these early cycles.
3. **Amplify stories**: Use podcasts, storytelling, and short narrative videos to share breakthroughs.
4. **Launch a global convening**: online “Changemappers Summit” to align systemic innovators worldwide. Use it to:
* showcase early prototypes,
* attract new partners,
* crowdsource the global roadmap.
5. **Iterative scaling**: each cycle expands scope and participants — true to GAR’s cyclic principle.

**d) Practical platform steps**

* MVP:

* Profiles with personal → local → global mapping.
* Pattern library (seeded with a few working practices).
* Facilitation tools (group decision support, storytelling templates).
* Later:

* AI co-facilitators, visual system maps, integration with other platforms (e.g. Hylo, Kumu).

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## 3. Strategic Positioning

* **Narrative hook**: “Changemappers is not just a platform. It is a *living research movement* — each action creates knowledge, each breakthrough becomes replicable, and each community fuels the next.”
* **Differentiation**: Unlike classic networks (that connect but don’t transform), Changemappers is **generative**: self-sustaining, self-improving, self-evolving, self-propagating.
* **Global-local bridge**: highlight the ability to translate hyperlocal experiments into scalable systemic innovations.

# How could you help?

* Spread the word to changemakers, local community organizers, volunteers, experts (programmers, graphic/UX designers, etc.)
* Provide feedback, especially on:
* How does this project and its description resonates to you?
* How does it fill a gap of connecting and supporting changemakers across borders?
* How exactly do you see it would help you as a changemaker?
* What written (categorized) form of details (e.g. vision, mission, values, principles, topics and goals) would serve you to decide if you want to meet another changemaker?
* On a scale of 1 to 10, how well can you relate to United Nations 17 SDGs to describe your preferences related to social causes? (e.g. to decide whether you want to be involved or not in a volunteering project)
* Regarding your talents and goals, how much are you comfortable to share on a public online platform?
* What type of privacy controls would you need at minimum?
* Sponsor prototype development
* One simple user story (function) costs about 50-300 $
* Contribute to code if you “speak” Svelte/Javascript/OpenStreetMap/UI Design/etc.: https://github.com/sicambria/changemappers

## Links

Work-in-progress, draft user stories, architecture and other system-related topics:
* https://hackmd.io/@jovokepzok/your-journey-as-changemaker
* https://hackmd.io/@jovokepzok/changemappers-jobs-to-be-done
* https://hackmd.io/@jovokepzok/changemappers-ai
* https://hackmd.io/@jovokepzok/changemappers-dev
* https://www.u-school.org/g/teams/bb49a4f4-84bf-4d06-b303-f0fd335ada7a

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