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# Preparation for Session 3

## Links to notes from earlier session:

- [Session 1 notes (Hack MD)](https://hackmd.io/5YqxO0SJQG-hxcM5iS1nVg)
- [Session 2 notes (Hack MD)](https://hackmd.io/go_i0RrxSG65MZ7FD2y9qw?view)
- [Jo’s million dollar proposal - worth the re-read e hoa mā.](https://sharing.incommon.love/6OCwUpo3yAyDpv)


## Session 3 - setting the scene - a recap of earlier sessions (Completed in silo by Engie):

A quick recap of earlier sessions - in session one, we came together and got a shared understanding of the past and present state of our collective journey as part of Ahau.
We came away knowing we are all together on this bus and some shared themes of our future vision we came up with:


**Themes:**
- community
    - indigenous community
    - looking after our own, and strengthening global communities
- justice and equality
    - not necessarlily fighting the “wrong”
    - instead give power to build the “right”
- agency / self determination / tino rangatiratanga
    - power to do this
    - tools to support this
- contributions
- accessibility
    - platforms
    - ability to contribute
- identity / knowing self
- Coordination

*Source: From session one notes hackmd.*

In session 2, we started the discussion answering two questions - if someone gave us $1M now, what would you do with it and what are the opportunities. 


**Key points:**
- Please do [read up on Jo’s great response: https://sharing.incommon.love/6OCwUpo3yAyDpv]. She went indepth and provided a lot of context and detail well worth the read.  Ngā mihi e hoa!
- Ahau Ltd has been very focused on software and not on business development.  ii.e adoption, revenue, governance.  We need to direct focus on building the org development, capability and communications
- Succession planning and resilience
- Platform resilience
    - invest time into restructuring our dev processes, migrate to using other tools for how task management, maintenance, testing, mobile dev, or just start a whole new app.
- Support current whānau and future whānau
- Bridging the digital divide
- Have a solid foundation, and need a clear future direction
- Tell our story!  i like spell casting because they create magic but you need to be careful with spells because they can have negative side effects
    - we cant cast a spell safely because we dont have the ingredients
    - the spell would be “community defined identity” can and should be done us in Aotearoa
    - this is important piece of work
- Could support fundraising
    - Put majority of the money in a high interest earning account while we plan for the future

Following answering the two questions and sticking with our ‘Bus’ analogy, we flowed into what ‘Bus’ modifications will need to happen to make our shared vision a reality? 

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We wrote up suggestions of what bus modifications (meaning business structures), we had 11 suggestions surface and the options we landed on were:


1. Start a Coop
1. Start a Ltd & Register a charity (once a fund we create is at $500,000)
1. Set up a Wyoming based C-corp
1. Start a new OpenCollective / Gift Collective Fund holder or commondeer the existing Digital Aotearoa Collective CPR
1. Setup a dao
1. LLC + DAO


## Session 3 - preparation mahi:

I feel there’s a need now to start to bring some structure to our strategy sessions and what I’d like us to do, in preparation for Thursday 7 Sept, is take the time to answer the questions below.

I’ll provide some suggestions, and room for your answers.

Dialling back to figure out the roles, purpose, values and ways we will make decisions in regards our Strategy Sessions, will help us with taking the nexts steps and support us to then (in either session 4 or 5) delve into the 6 potential business structures we highlighted in session 2.

### 1. What are ongoing roles needed to make sure we have consistency and progress in our strategic mahi?


- **Role Assigner**
    - Held by: 
    - Accountabilities:
        - Assigns people to roles
        - Removes people from roles
        - Invites support and or people to future strategy sessions

- **Facilitator**
    - Held by:
    - Accountabilities:
        - Summarizes notes, does the preparation for the next strategy session
        - Facilitate weekly strategic meetings
        - Person in role can change weekly

*Source: https://github.com/CoMakery/self-organization-constitution/blob/master/roles.md*

**Q1 Team contributions:**

- ben@ahau.io - please add in any roles and or accountabilities you think important for us to consider for our strategy sessions.  

If we are just talking about the strategy work, and the goal is to design a new team strategy
**Accountabilities**
- meeting coordination
- notes taking
- someone who can summarise team inputs and keep us moving forward
- someone who reminds us of our why when we need it
- someone who can think outside of the box

Once we have a strategy in place and we know the direction we are heading in
**Accountabilities**
- fundraising
- community development
- business development
- product development

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- jo@yojodesign.com -  please add in any roles and or accountabilities you think important for us to consider for our strategy sessions.  


- mix@protozoa.nz
  - yes to roles
    - AND I think roles should be like hats we pass around. important to share labour, learning, power.
  - I would split facilitator out into mini bits to make it lighter
    - note taker, summarizer
    - calender wrangler
    - meeting host (keeps us on time, helps us all participate/ be heard, helps us make course corrections to agenda as required)


- cherese.eriepa@outlook.com - please add in any roles and or accountabilities you think important for us to consider for our strategy sessions.  


### 2. What is our purpose?

- **Team Action:** 
    - To please read [this theory of change](https://sharing.incommon.love/6OCwUpo3yAyDpv/b/B3A04076-154D-4EF0-99E8-04328FE80D5C/Theory-of-change) started and created by Jo

    - **Problem Statement:**
        - Māori / Indigenous communities have faced cultural erosion, lack of access to resources, and exclusion from global systems that support economic and social well-being. This leads to a vicious cycle of poverty, marginalization, and loss of cultural heritage.

**Q2 Team Contributions:**

- ben@ahau.io - Our Purpose Is to …….. By ………

Indigenous communities successfully navigate a path to a self-determined, resilient future, maintaining their unique cultural identities while effectively interoperating with global systems that the rest of humanity uses.


- jo@yojodesign.com -  Our purpose is to develop a nation-building stack of decentralised public-digital-infrastructure for indigenous people delivering capabilities to be more effective kaitiaki of the earth, environment and society we leave to all our future whanau.


- mix@protozoa.nz - Our purpose is to help strengthen and grow Maori communities. We do this by offering value aligned tools (and training) to serve them on their journey.


- cherese.eriepa@outlook.com - Our Purpose is to empower our communities to take ownership of their data by building the tools to enable this


- engie@ahau.io - Our purpose is to empower indigenous communities by co-creating tools/technology that enable tino rangatira / self determination.


Our purpose is to empower indigenous and Maori communities by co-creating decentralized digital infrastructure and value-aligned tools. We aim to facilitate self-determination, resilience, and data ownership, while enabling communities to be effective stewards of the earth, environment, and society for future generations.



### 3. What are our shared values for our strategic mahi?

- Have a think about this team, however, this will be one of the opening exercises for our hui on Thursday.



### 4. How do we want to make decisions?

- **Team Action:** 
    - Please have a read of this [‘Making decisions’ section](https://github.com/CoMakery/self-organization-constitution/tree/master/citizen-code-constitution-example#making-decisions) from the Co-Makery self organised example to give you ideas to contribute. 
    - Have a think about this team and note down any points for you in preparation.  This will also be a discussion point / activity for us to go through on Thursday.


For the 2 hours session, I think that is plenty for us to discuss and work through.
If we aren’t able to get through all of this by end of session Thursday, I’d like to volunteer to facilitate Session 4

Ngā mihi maioha team,

Engie