Cross-fertilization Edgeryders-MT2019 through unMonastery
Edgeryders - unMonastery - Mt2019. Networks, people, ideas. And now also online platforms. Through mt2019 a community of intentions has been launched and has been communicating for several weeks now: 118 users, 58 missions, 445 comments. The most important thing is that people which do not communicate offline are starting to do so online. another important thing is that there is trace of all this, and it cann be dispatched using social media and networks that go beyond the local dyamics. For Edgeryders this might seem normal or banal, but I can assure you that it is not for the Basilicata regione.
Yes, we (mt2019 WebTeam) have been trying to keep track of the initiatives and link them together. More can be done, and better, but here is the list of different comments that have been building on the unMonastery on the mt2019 community:
Here is the mission posted right after uM#1: How do we activate injection? (Italian) “Injection” was the 4th dimension proposed by Bembo. Read 95 times, no comments. I guess I didn’t succeed in activating the injection 
Here is the other mission posted right after uM#1: Mapping local resources. Let’s take out the poison! (Italian). List of the problems that came out during the workshop: the idea was to start from there and activate proposals, continuing the work done during the day. Read 198 times, no comments. I guess there was a problem here too. Maybe not clear? :-(
Here is the 3rd mission posted right after uM#1: Real proposals. Release your imagination! (Italian). List of all the proposals that came out during the day and build on them. Read 1543 times, 40 comments.
Also, it is important to say that many missions have been launched on the platform which answer indirectly those isses. For example “Piantiamola 100.000 trees towards MT2019” in which Pio (the guy from Legambiente that offered training courses in exchange of uM workforce in the field of emergency climate management) proposes to plant 100.000 trees before 2019. From then on a little group is working on that mission - from the local administrator Rocco Rivelli to the Legambiente group.
And of course there is the moving mission written by Ben titled after the sentence Pio (yeah, the Legambiente guy again!) “Today we have given you a big gift” (Enligsh, Italian).
Here is the mission on uM#2: Open Sourcing Matera (English, Italian).
I can testify with my personal experience how much through this MT2019 initiative the local territory is growing and being fertilized through cross-pollination. It started small-scale, home-made (it actually is like that still today): on a personal initiative we bring our contacts, translate, link, network. It is growing and it is impressive to read that trhought the uM one speaks about Matera during a OuiShare initiative. Because it confirms the sense of what we have been doing since 2009: using the excuse of MT2019 to grow the buzz of the territory and fertilize it with people, ideas and projects that take on from the experimental vocation of that area. I seldom speak of vocation, as it seems quite deterministic. But in this case it’s as if the unsolved, isolated and virgin dimension of Basilicata calls for innovators, creatives and makers. The Sassi are the physical representation of this way of living - or tentative of co-living!
On with the contamination!