# Collaborative Earth

## Vision

Community. Collaboration. Regeneration.

Global network stewarding development and governance of platform, open source initiative, data commons, and workdplace democracy.

## Mission

Incubation of commons, trust, worker cooperatives, and collaboration based projects that benefit all of life.

## Need

Provide technical support rooted in ethics to new impact projects of 'collective intelligence' leveraging open source, cooperative platform, and decentralized approaches to research and development.

## Audience We Serve

Teams and projects lacking capacity, resources, and process familiarity with approaches to the development of cooperative platforms and their associated technologies.

Workers desiring equitable workplaces and opportuniteis for ownership.

## Areas of Expertise & Specialization

* Ethical governance
* Platform co-op development
* Equitable finance models, economic justice
* Data privacy and ownership
* Data commons
* Commons governance and trust

## Services Provided

* Commons project infrastructure to support 'bootstrapping'
* Hosting of public workspaces for community partners
* Wikis
* Mind maps
* Virtual whiteboards
* Data Interactives
* Workspace for Communication (ie. Slack or equivalent)
* Decentralized digital library (CCX // Ontola)
* IT Services
* Decentralized data pods (ITME Account)
* Data & resource repository hosting
* Networking, Project Linkages
* Partners,
* Affiliates,
* Contributors
* Bulletins
* Governance support
* Open Source Project Hosting
* Community Contribution Guidelines
* Ie. for folks who want to contribute to Project Drawdown
* Development of new worker ownership models and opportunieis
* Participation, Community Building Facilitation
* Hackathon co-hosting, facilitation
* Mentorship
* Community liaising
* Technical capacity and knowledge resources
* Best practices
* Tools and resources
* Knowledge Commons
* Research and strategic planning support
* Ecosystem mapping
* Causality mapping
* User research
* User experience design
* Strategic support
* Host visioning and strategic planning for long term sustainability
* Imagination, co-visioning, brainstorming sessions
* Sharing 'models of the future' to connect org values to implementations approaches

## Proposed Model

New models rooted in more ethical and inclusive approaches to open source governance and alternate forms of licensing.

1. Research, co-development, and stewardship of innovative models to share with members.
2. Inspire. Unlock collective imagination of an organization.
3. Host co-creation, co-visioning work, strategic planning.
4. Support MVP implementation of visions that include a movement or transition towards collective models.

## Research Inter Planetary Luminary and Beyond

### Research Reports:

* Nadia Eghbal - Road and Bridges - The Unseen Labor of Our Digital Infrastructure
* Mixel Kiemen - [Self-organization to support collaboration for Innovation - The Drupal case](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228528897_Self-organization_in_open_source_to_support_collaboration_for_innovation_the_Drupal_case)
* [European Commission Guidelines for Sustainable OSS Communities](https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Guidelines%20for%20Sustainable%20OSS%20Communities%20in%20the%20Public%20Sector%20final.pdf)
### Books:

* Climate: A New Story, Charles Eisenstein
* ...

### What's Possible: Models that Inspire.

* [https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/city-club/](https://)

### Who Could Benefit: Seed Efforts

* Project Drawdown US / EU
* VTArtworks / CCX
* Up&Go // Brightly // Hopetown Smokebox
* Block Power // Hello Voter
* Food Rescue Alliance
* NYC Drivers Co-op
* Smoketown Hopebox
* ...

## Membership network, a federation of member organizations

Who might join a federation in support of collective // commons // open source projects that support human and ecological flourishing?
- [ ] Project Drawdown EU
- [ ] CoLab.coop
- [ ] Sassafras Tech Co-op
- [ ] ITME.coop
- [ ] Launch.coop
- [ ] Start.coop
- [ ] Critical ConnecXtions (CCX)
- [ ] HappyDev
- [ ] Startin' Blox
- [ ] Geddup

Who might be advisory organizations?

- [ ] International Cooperative Alliance
- [x] Center for Transformative Action
- [ ] Peer to Peer Foundation
- [ ] Free Software Foundation

Who might be advisory individuals?

- [ ] Kevin Bayuk, LIFT Economy, Project Drawdown
- [x] Colin Clark, Inclusive Design Research Center
- [ ] Richard Stallman?
- [ ] John Gilmore?
- [ ] Rachel Isreeli
- [ ] Hendrix Berry
- [ ]

- [Cooperative Networks and Associations Patterns](https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/patterns-cooperative-networks-and-associations)
[https://www.mindmeister.com/1707890931](https://)

## Ecosystem map

- [ ] Map the [ecosystem]( https://www.mindmeister.com/1707888909?t=OGcg4lA42N#)
- [ ] Map the functional relationship between Project Drawdown EU, Collab Earth, CoLab Cooperative, Ecosia, and other partners for clear boundary definitions and roles.

## Possible partners (from @revathi)

* [K8 Design](https://www.k8.design/k8-start)
* "Art Society and Particiation"
* [Anticipate Network](https://www.anticipate.network/welcome)
* "collective intelligence design"
* "how to create contexts and conditions that allow us to imagine possible, potential, plausible futures. and then act.in common."
* [Industry Commons](https://industrycommons.net/)
* [Hylo](https://hylo.com)
* "social coordination platform"

## Nonprofit needs

* Articulate service offerrings and overall value proposition for partner organizations
* Resources for basic org infrastructure
* Finalize advisory board and the legal undertaking.
* Obtain seed funding
* Kickoff white paper to provide a container for exploration and documenation.
* Philosophical and ethical motivation for the work
* Definition of 'systems of collective intelligence' or some similar phrase to define a term offering a top level container for (open source projects, platform cooperatives, networked collectives, commons models)
* Models, inspiration
* Quotes
* Insights from papers, books
* Best Practices

### Infrastructure

* Email accounts
* Mind meister (or comparable) account
* Miro account
* Kumu.io
* [Roam Research Account](https://roamresearch.com/)
* Salary for 'community manager' role
* Honorariums for researcher(s)

## A Story: Humanity Working Together as a Global Collective towards the Flourishing of all of Life.

Collab Earth, Project Drawdown EU, Ecosia, CoLab Cooperative and its partners and allies come together as a global federation to support the formation and flourishing of models of collective intelligence by humans committed to serving people and planet.

Possible talking points:

* Planetary luminaries from around the world contributing best practices of models and process to guide the formation of this new global network for ethical collectivation.
* Support Project Drawdown in instantiation of a Commons Based research model.
* Support Project Drawdown EU and CoLab Cooperative in providing a framework for open source development and equitable governance of the research platform technology.
* Supporting CoLab move to a more federated, pluralistic, model in its own operations.
* Incubating and sharing resources within a co-op, partner network.
* Facilitating resourcing and value distribution flows to support the flourishing of humanitarian platform work.
* Stewardship of intellectual property intended to the benefit a global community.
* A pluralistic model of designing and developing new 'for benefit' applications and services atop open platforms and technologies.

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