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Strategic Ideation - 3

Pod 1: el, pc
Focus area: DO SICK WORK!

Brief

With your pod, generate a list of possible goals and strategic initiatives within your assigned focus area - incorporating the trends and surfaced themes

Come up with 5+ ideas in 20 minutes

Ideation Area…

  • co-op development. supporting new people to start co-ops. inventing new models for co-op development where we get paid to kickstart. alignment over a co-ops success, bc we only get paid if they do.
  • supporting movements with digital faciliation. so they can make decisions without getting together in giant groups. polis? loomio? training.
  • work with aligned orgs. other co-ops. ppl who have same mindset.
  • work with freegeek
  • work with ppl out side tech
  • work with hacklab
  • platform co-ops that support local small business – foodora competitors, uber, skip the dishes.
    • supporting ppl directly tied to these communities and educating them on possibilities of co-ops
  • pursue gov precurement policy support for co-operative vendors
  • working with larger impactful clients
  • more design thinking contracts. using strategic foresight skills.
  • support launch of [local] platform co-ops (ish) projects for:
    • polis
    • video conferncing
    • food delivery
    • bike courier
    • dinner ordering
    • NOT airbnb
    • taxi
    • SSB
    • mastodon
  • support local food co-ops with tech services
  • do work with with techsupport.coop member in toronto
  • start finding opportunities through non-traditional advertizing (demonstrations, swag at events)
  • re: police brutality. advocate for co-operative models in community safety converations. E.g. whitebird clinic's CAHOOTS in Eugene Oregon: https://whitebirdclinic.org/services/cahoots/
  • projects that strengthen democracies
  • help small businesses like cafes understand co-op model (will they survive even?)
  • support contracts for office wifi (open source hardware, software)
  • co-op for running safe events

APPDENDIX: Ideation Toolkit

Example goal: Collaborate with Great Lakes Region Coops.
Example strategic initiative: Host a meet and greet with other cooperatives in the Great Lakes region to discuss possibilities of collaboration and ways we can support each other.

Trend 1: Growing adoption of digital technology; cost and tech literacy are barriers
Trend 2: Canadians are concerned about their security and privacy
Trend 3: Declining trust in most tech companies
Trend 4: Feelings of vulnerability and social inequity driving Canadians toward coop models
Trend 5: Desire to secure worker's rights and livelihoods as we transition to post-carbon/sustainable economies
COVID-19 + Protests agains Police Brutality: What will be the long term effects? How can we help?

Hypha AGM Themes

  • Secure more projects
  • Do more infra client work
  • Showcase and publish our work
  • More financial control and better tracking
  • Find budget to invest in meaningful ways
  • Be neighbourly on the DWeb
  • Build with other coops
  • Collaborate more as a team
  • Respond to the needs of our community during crisis
  • Demonstrate our committment to our values

Goals and Initiatives

  • Hiring and HR - individuals and skills we want to grow with
  • Workflow and processes - streamlining our work
  • Infrastructure - tools, automations, our virtual office
  • Partnerships and collaborators
  • Service and product offerings
  • Budgeting and tracking
  • Investments
  • Personal development and learning
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