Hi Ahmed,
Just saw you posted this!
So I’d like to welcome you here too 
I’m one of the co-founders of Edgeryders and very active as a director in the not-for-profit company that supports this work.
Reading you above I think there is a specific challenge that your experience and skills could really help us to solve creatively. It’s an obstacle to many people and projects not living up to their full potential.
A few years ago we started exploring how people working to affect positive changes in their community can can support each others’ work. The reason being that it is very hard to build projects for social good that generate enough value to sufficiently compensate everyone contributing to their successes. Especially since it takes several years and a lot of mentorship, contacts and full time work to get there. Also the psychological and social pressures can be very tough on people trying to build/do new things. Not to mention the economic consequences of businesses that fail (which e.g. most start ups do).
For me the big lesson is that we need to look into incentivising collective investment into things which everyone benefits from but no one can/wants to “carry” alone.
For most people the only source of support is Family which has its’ own challenges and anyway is not available for a lot of people. In an ideal situation it would be everyone paying taxes in exchange for good services and a social security net. But this is far from realistic for many of us.
So we get try to build what we need from what we have. More specifically we are building OpenVillage as a peer-to-peer effort to help one another do three things:
- co-saving: Coordinate to make collective investments and build solutions that lower financial costs of living and doing business
- co-earning: Work together to build and grow different streams of revenue to support each other increase
- co-creation: Everyone needs other people to do things with. We maintain and grow a safe, welcoming and tolerant space where people can think, dream and experiment around new ideas together.
I have a hunch for how to do this, but could use your help to flesh it out before I present it to the community.
Should I share it with you?