Creating our Markets : Business Model between Each Other - OVN’s
I notice lots of focus seems to be on external institutional support, and on corporations.
I want to make a parallel :
I remember somehow that some migrants communities would be able to create internal economic networks between themselves. Various professions would get clients from within their own community.
I can see the same for Edgeryders, and also for various other networks which may share common values and approaches, such as The Hub and other Coworking spaces, but also small software companies, etc
In other words, I believe we can focus on delivering services to each other.
At a macro-economical level, certain consultancies part of such shared cultures ( and potential economic networks ) may have it easier, at the current time, to “sell” their services for euros or mainstream currencies.
This can bring money into the networked economy, which can then circulate within it,
or more exactly serve as a guarantee for local exchanges, and be used for expenses outside of the networked economy ( while incentivizing spending within it )
To facilitate this, tools exist. For example we can encourage internal transactions by using Freigeld type of monetary architectures.
And as to reduce spending to elements outside of the Edgeryder economic network, we can encourage mutualized costs and mutualized investments in infrastructures that can progressively reduce dependency on mainstream currencies.
We can also use barter types of monetary architectures, such as mutual credit systems.
But ultimately, what I believe we may be able to use, is “a market”. We need to understand, internally, what people’s needs and offers are.
We can create our Open Value Networks, and invite other existing communities to interact and expand such economic networks.
Matthias app may be evolving in such direction, yet at the present moment is still at a stage of what , if I remember properly, is called Vaporware.
Other projects have a lot of similarities with Matthias economy app, and I do hope that we can make them build on each other. To my knowledge, Matthias economy app is furthest in terms of institutional recognition, metamaps is furthest in terms of intuitive user interface design, and netention.org is furthest in terms of semantic technology backend development. I believe this may be a first point of focus to further bootstrap our internal markets, and shared decision making / collective intelligence / open value network approach.
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There may be an interest in understanding which SME’s , and in which sectors, may have an interest in Edgeryders.
I personally believe that what Edgeryders can be attractive for, is the social environment it creates. I imagine a starting focus midst others may be on sme’s that crosses national boundaries and languages, that share such culture, and even if only for their own morale and sense of belonging ( if they are independents for example ), connecting and supporting Edgeryders may be in their interest.
Secondly, I believe that for such independents or SME’s, Edgeryders can serve as a platform not only for collective and strategic intelligence, but also help mutualize costs, and hence enable them to become more “competitive” ( or reduce their financial burdens ) by reducing their costs through , for example, a sharing economy. This kind of approach can also interface with other movements, such as OuiShare.
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In other words, I personally wish to support the “selling” of Edgeryders as conviviality.
Hence also focus on small “nomad bases” spread in various places, where independents and sme’s can come and live and work, mutualize their costs, while enabling their income ( in euros ) to transit through the internal networked economies of Edgeryders, using various systems designs such as what some call “monetary systems”.
As this ecology grows, it can also attract professional accountants, that can help the community make sure it is perfectly in order what concerns tax requirements, even if and when it uses internal currencies.
Open Value Networks, as stated earlier on, can be interesting to inspire ourselves from.
