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Openworld Game How social networks can partner with localities to thrive in the peer-to-peer era

Meltdown � Eroding wages, failing financial systems,

deleveraging markets

� Billions of people need ways to build free, resilient, and thriving communities

The Opportunity

Small catalysts can turn failing systems inside out

… in ways that replicate and scale

It’s happened before...

Phoenicia’s idea

Digital ‘gifts on a beach’ can help us spread innovations around the world

In the Internet era…

The Openworld Game will work with Facebook groups and others online to:

� Incentivize students, jobseekers and tribes to spread seeds of “radical abundance”

� Promote projects that awaken assets on a success-sharing basis, rewarding participants who give valued inputs

How will it work? Q

1 Online participants pick favorite initiatives to help struggling areas

Participants define practical, self-funding projects in their areas of interest

They earn points by assembling “Seeds of change” starter kits for these projects, freely downloadable by any locality

2 Starter

Kit

Video orientations and eLessons on “early wins” and long-term upsides can be stored on US$10 MicroSD cards for cell phones:

�  “How to” videos featuring bootstrap initatives in poor areas that have become self-sustaining

�  Microstipends (via Paypal, Bitcoin, etc) that ensure “day one” access for residents to regional and global eLearning and eHealthcare providers

�  Startup work-study projects whose completion by students and jobseekers creates credentials for entry into global telework markets

�  Access to allied microlending and microinvestment sites, with further introductions to larger lenders/investors

�  Links to global volunteers active in social networks and allied campus groups, technology innovators, and policy reform institutes

Online teams can also produce advanced kits for local allies 2

3 �  Online participants pledge personal time

and/or microgrants for projects in communities that make the fullest commitments

�  Ascending levels of support are given to communities that agree to commit land and enabling reforms for the ventures

To unlock each ascending level of support…

� Local project champions digitally record and upload (on Flickr, Slideshare, Youtube) their progress in reaching key milestones

Seeds of Change offers can be spread widely!in informal and formal sectors…

At grassroots levels, prospective partners identify projects of interest

Clean water system eLearning via

telecenters

And earn points by uploading local opportunity profiles

� Community profiles (in the MiiU.org Resilient Places wiki)

� Slides with ideas on projects

� Youtube clips of available sites & reform commitments to awaken assets

What kind of asset-awakening reforms?

�  eGovernment (pilots of web-based licensing/permits)

�  Transparent land registries �  Alternative Dispute Resolution

systems �  Singapore/Hong Kong-style free

zone policies �  Flexiwage bonus systems for public

sector employees (linking pay to the economic health of the locality)

Examples of land value gains

5x – 50x land value gains have occurred in leading free cities and zones, following adoption of reforms The Openworld Game will encourage projects that include local and global good causes as beneficiaries

US$ 71.1 billion in land lease

earnings (Hong Kong from

1970-2000)

As localities offer sites for projects, participants may agree to begin pilot projects

1.  Individual shows active interest in radical abundance project opportunities

2.  Learning circles form to research the proposed new demonstration ventures

3.  Entrepreneurial schools & telecenters build valued skills through online courses, and help jobseekers find projects in global markets for telework

4. Residents join neighborhood self-help groups, recording arbitration pledges and photos of land boundaries to awaken “dead capital”

5.  Public officials agree to recognize neighborhood actions and pilot economic reforms in new “success-sharing zones”

6.  Local allies commit prime sites for phased, private 7.  projects (with neighborhood groups, schools, and a

local good causes sharing in land asset gains)

How a local project can unlock ascending resources

Individuals

Success-Sharing Zones

Entrepreneurial Schools

Neighborhood Self-help

Reform Pilots

Multipliers (Microstipends and other challenge offers grow in step with local progress) 1. Quickstart

2. Innovation Park 3. Full-scale Free Zone

5x

1x

2x

Learning Circles

10x

30x

100x

As a pilot project advances, localities can digitally record its milestones. Each milestone can earn “Freedompoints” redeemable (for example) in community microscholarships to spread skills, microvouchers to access telemedicine, introductory telework jobs, introductions to investors, and other pre-agreed benefits.

What’s next? �  Introduce a working “pledge currency” for radical

abundance (building on Eli Gothill’s Twitter-based currency) �  Prepare a game prototype (with GoogleEarth, Sketchup,

and other off-the-shelf apps) �  Engage social networks (to create Seeds of Change

toolkits, develop a reputation-building reward for volunteers, and define standing offers of online assistance for exemplary local projects)

�  Assemble digital gifts (commitments by luminaries, social capital investors, foundations, and others to support challenge offers)

�  Assist grassroots allies (with an initial focus on entrepreneurial schools and self-help groups in poor communities that seek land grant sites and asset-awakening reforms)

�  Replicate self-funding projects (sponsor competitions to award Seeds of Change resources to new areas seeking to remove barriers to growth)

Let’s do it!

Mark Frazier www.openworld.com

email: [email protected] phone: +1.202.257.2574

@openworld (updates on Twitter)