OpenKollab Ecosystem Pooled Fund
We are currently collaborating with the Forward Foundation and the P2P Foundation to identify an ecosystem of related projects that would satisfy the conditions that we are looking for. Please take a look at this presentation for details.

The model that we are developing with the Ecosystem Pooled fund is unique because it takes a systems approach to financing social ventures. We are looking for a group of projects that are related to each other (have common goals, common markets, people, processes, technology platform, are a part of the same value chain etc.). We will attempt to finance these projects simultaneously as a part of a single ecosystem.

We believe that this model is timely because of the new world that is emerging where people and projects are connected by distributed networks, information flows freely across boundaries, organizational hierarchies are flattening etc.

In support of this strategy we have commenced the mapping of the Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystem. We will be collecting a range of data that can be found on this spreadsheet.


OpenKollab Ecosystem Collaboration Platform
We are in the process of putting a team together to work toward the development of a platform to support the connection of socially beneficial projects that have aligned missions. This process is at inception stage but a lot of thinking has gone into what the platform requirements are. This thinking is reflected in the following presentations and whitepapers.


OpenKollab Community Development and Project Matching: In the long term, our goal is to create a community, the necessary processes and the technology platform to align groups that have similar missions (super-ordinate goals). This describes some ideas for how data about projects can be used to connect them.

Can we gather such data on the networks that we are working within to make this possible?
Open System Mobilization Platform Vision: This describes some of the principles that would guide the development of a global real time collaboration platform that could be used to connect potentially millions of people around specific ideas.

Imagine, for example, 100,000,000 working together to think about ways of coordinating their activity to solve problems like climate change, global poverty etc.

Ecosystem Collaboration Platform Vision: This presentation describes, in a more practical way, some of the problems that exist in the social change space and describes a platform for addressing these problems. The underlying ideas are the same as for the Open System Mobilization Platform but this is more focused on the User Interface Paradigm.