Welcome, then, @Phoresced. I am Alberto, one of the old-timers (relatively to the history of Edgeryders, which is still quite short).
I would like to know more about this:
Thanks in no small part to @matthias’s extra clear thinking, many of us are quite skeptical of the business incubator model. What we think might work is the part of it where people spend time interacting in an aligned way around a project, and they develop professionally (and often personally) as a result. But that is done best by a different technology than the incubator: the home. So we set out to reinvent the home. It makes sense anyway, since we want to live in a space that suits our lives, and then started to test whether this new model can also perform some of the functions of a business incubator.
In fact we have a prototype running right now, on the west coast of Morocco. I visited it in the early days, but now, from my base in Brussels it is not clear how well it is working. There are so many dimensions to it, from food preparation to interacting with local people (apparently discouraged by local authorities) to, of course, developing products for small businesses. Sometimes I think it’s going great, sometimes I feel pessimistic. The reports from @hazem and @HadeerGhareeb seem on the positive side. What is sure is that we are far from having a smoothly running model.
So … what does your project look like? What can we learn from you? Have you documented it anywhere? Here you can find a lot of stuff in the openvillage category or searching for “Kaouki” on the platform.
And also, I’m curious: how does permaculture happen in remote? 