Thoughts for the future from Noat Nour

Asset-based?

Hello @amiridina, welcome. Interesting that you talk about asset-based. We are moving just now planning a move into what we call stewardship, the act of communities taking care of assets and deploying them for the common good. There are plenty of unused or under-utilized assets littering the landscape (at least in Europe, I am unsure about Egypt). We are making a significant experience with the unMonastery: the building belongs to the Italian city of Matera, but no one was using it. Now it is being used for many things, from open technology teaching to playing with children. 

As for the platform, there is nothing special about it. It is simply a way for us to stay in touch, since we live all over the world. We have also discovered that this way of communicating, preferably in writing, encourages clarity (because we need to think hard about what we do in order to communicate it in writing) and discovery (because once it is written it is there, and somebody might be inspired today by something you did and documented two years ago). I am convinced that this culture of documenting things we do (largely derived from open source hackers) makes us more effective asa community of doers. 

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