Empowering Cybernetic Codevelopment with Africa
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The patern is the Integral Operative System (SOI): a virtual community of complementary organizations to co-develop cybernetic clusters of Venture Capital against poverty.
About You
Location
Project Street Address
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Your idea
Sector Focus
Civil society
Year the initative began (yyyy)
2007
YouTube Upload
WE THINK, Charles Leadbeater, 2008
Web site (url)
Positioning of your initiative on the mosaic diagram
Which of these barriers is the primary focus of your work?
Inadequate govt response/action
Which of the principles is the primary focus of your work?
Mobilize peer groups and communities to raise awareness
If you believe some other barrier or principle should be included in the mosaic, please describe it and how it would affect the positioning of your initiative in the mosaic
International Cooperation & Fair Tourism have very similar activities with common objectives, but still considerated as separate &/or competitive fields: this is a big mistake. Both sectors are looking for sustainability, have intercultural, transversal & deep social caracteristics. It's time to bring real synergy between both activities, in order to make it one.
Name Your Project
Empowering Cybernetic Codevelopment with Africa
Describe Your Idea
The patern is the Integral Operative System (SOI): a virtual community of complementary organizations to co-develop cybernetic clusters of Venture Capital against poverty.
Innovation
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
The patern is the Integral Operative System (SOI): a virtual community of complementary organizations to co-develop cybernetic clusters of Venture Capital against poverty.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field?
My innovation pretends to empower International Cooperation trough Cybernetics (2.0) & High Working Performance Systems (integrating people, information, work & technology in an organizational/social global project)
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
3 days of conference/workshops are enough to get the SOI Administrators trained & the SOI policies adapted. Permanent training & evoluting online, exemple: Silicone Valley. Caution: the net is the net, the ground is the ground...
How do you plan to grow your innovation?
Making a cybernetic use of socioeconomic powerful tools against poverty:
- International cooperation, global conscience.
- “New” tourisms: ecotourism, cultural tourism, scientific tourism, cooperation tourism, business tourism, venture tourism, outdoor & gliding sports tourism, ethical & fair tourism.
- Internet 2.0 & Cybernetics: integrating people, information, work & technology (intercultural, transversal & permanent feedback).
- High Performance Working Systems & Creative Management (Harvard, MIT)
- Public Relations & Marketing 2.0.
Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them?
Partnership with Oceanium (NGO, Dakar): www.oceanium.org ; Ibrahima Diouf, Ministry of Tourism Ecotourism advisor (I worked with them).
Zahid Torres Rahman: www.businessfightspoverty.org ; Karsten Weitzenegger: www.weitzenegger.de ; Edu William: www.destinum.com (Networking partners, increasing everyday...)
Impact
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact.
Increasing flows of specific, complementary & up-to-date information among a powerful cluster of development organizations & populations, in order to promote transversal feedbacks & knowledge transference, synergies & all-round pertinent creativity.
What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact?
Old growning companies, establishment, burocratic thinking.
Digital gap in Africa (it's about jumping it)
How many people have you served or plan to serve?
Up to here, 1.000 people have seen my plans on www.conectafrica.wordpress.com.
I plan to serve an exponential population trough Networks, from local NGOs to tourist guides, travel agencies, GOs...
Directly
Training of the SOI Administrators (30 selected people at each session: conference + workshops + online)
Indirectly
Exponencial, depending of the social networks of the Administrators (matematically: from 5.000 to 10.000.000 co-workers for each SOI)
Benefited population: ?
Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation?
Available Online, 24h, 365 d/y
Is there a policy intervention element to your innovation?
In the line of Ashoka I think: Open Networks & free knowledge transference. SHARE vs COMPETE, Community vs Individual, Transparency vs Burocracy... Education is the key.
Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation?
We think = Mass Innovation
We help = Mass Cooperation
We improve = Codevelopment
"Social software 2.0": global impacts
This Entry is about (Issues)
Sustainability
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
"Bloggs? Don't you have anything serious to do?" is the moto...
If known, provide information on your finances and organization
I wish
What is the potential demand for your innovation?
2.0 fenomenon is going through the hole society, by order of digitalization. Computers/connection prices going down, Wifi, optical fiber... Exponencial demand.
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability?
None, nearly everything is free, people too... Administrators can get paid with adds on the Blog.
The Story
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story.
This is a stand alone initiative, based on 8 years of PhD Investigation: "Tourism: Passport to development? The role of Human Ressource during the trip". I decided to create www.conectafrica.wordpress.com within the framework of a cooperation plan between the Canary Islands Government & the Ministry of Tourism of Senegal: “Occupational Training Needs for Senegalese Ecotourism”, identifiying strategic objectives with important projections. The next phase of the project is planned for... 2056, I guess... After 10 years working on the ground of Ecotourism & Cooperation, I got really tired of burocracy nonsense, wich is actually driving NGOs, GOs & investors to compete for ressources, information, knowledge, instead of sharing. I think it's time to forget, step by step, the pyramidal organization of society, since we have a democratic & pacific tool to do it: Blogs & Networks.
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material
PhD Investigator at ULPGC: "Tourism: Passport to development? The role of Human Ressource during the trip". Venture capital & Ecotourism expert, Outdoor sports guide & reporter, social entrepreneur: www.conectafrica.wordpress.com
Emphasis of Work
I+D+i in "Social software": Open Networks & self sharing: at your own risks... Heavy etical foreground, education is the key, Ashoka knows this.
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Comments
Dear Stephanie;
I read your entry today and found it very interesting. The internet can be a powerful tool for raising awareness and gaining support and momentum around a specific issue; including human trafficking. It would be interesting to hear a bit more about how you envision your innovation impacting global trafficking. Is it to be used as a space to raise awareness and share ideas, or is it a marketing tool to promote forms of tourism that directly benefit the people living in the location? It might add strengthen to your entry to explain your conceptual framework more clearly.
Good luck!
Laura Cardinal
Public Health and Human Trafficking Specialist
Hello Laura,
Thanks for your interest & for your comment. You're absolutely right: I need to clear up this entry, it's actually quite messy... busy days... I'll try to clean this as soon as possible.
Concerning global trafficking, I guess you'll agree that poverty is the main source of human traffic. So, I think the most powerfull secret of Open Source Networks consists en attacking global poverty at its roots: unfair & unsustainable trade, miseducation, digital gap, geographic/cultural isolation, etc...
Empowering knowledge, good intentions, creativity & synergy at any stage of the global society could be THE UNIQUE way to study & solve the problems of such a crazy, unique world. In my opinion, piramids & old growing organizations are getting TOTALLY USELESS due the speed of global changes.
Theorically, 2.0 brings transparency, free information, people's participation, trust & sharing spirit, that should be good for many fields, but it could also take us to a BIG Big Brother, if we don't learn to drive it right now...
Well, as an example: I think it could be quite easy to build a massive travelers community: "Travelers 2.0 against Human trafficking", when travelling wecould be your reporters & you will see, wewill probably start to build some brand new cooperation/control tools, online & offline, naturally & for free ;)
If you understand a little bit of spanish I suggest you to have a look on this part of my blog:
http://conectafrica.wordpress.com/recursos-humanos/
I also suggest you to join this network:
http://businessfightspoverty.ning.com/
Let's keep in touch
Kind regards
Stef
The African Tourism Organization Inc www. african-tourism .org
We will love to have your partnership .Please send your email ,full address and contact number.We love to invite you in 7-9 October 2008
Kind Regards
Duni Jones ATO