Post on 28-Jan-2015
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Opening the World Opening the World Social networks as enablers of free & resilient Social networks as enablers of free & resilient
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Mark Frazier, cofounder, Openworld.com
LEVEL 3Grassroots
Realm
LEVEL 2Political Realm
LEVEL 1Virtual Realm
Internet-delivered “seeds of change”
Aim of this presentation
1. Survey damage done by past approaches to “helping”
2. Review asset-awakening opportunities
3. Explore ways for online networks to help lift local barriers to self-help
Background
Base of the Pyramid – four billion are living on less than $3500 a year
Corruption: $1 trillion rake-off by gatekeepers
Source: James Tooley
Background
Dambisa Moyo (Dead Aid): politicized aid funds predatory systems
Hernando de Soto (Mystery of Capital): US$9-14 trillion in capital is ‘sleeping’ due to state failures in dispute resolution and property rights systems
Background
Where can we find another approach?
Here…
Catalyzing growth in ancient times
How Phoenicians sparked trade and growth…
‘Gifts on a beach’ in the Internet era
Today, online networks can stimulate growth in poor regions
To see how they can help local moves to a freer world, let’s survey wealth-creating innovations in three realms
Grassrootsrealm
Political realm
Virtual realm
Background on innovations
1. Digital giving
2. Micro-funding portals
3. Global telework markets
Today, poor
Virtual realm: innovations
Virtual realm: innovations
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Digital giving•Online donors are giving vouchers and microgrants to expand access to new education, healthcare, and cell phone/Internet alternatives•Social networks are volunteering time to help bootstrap projects
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Micro-FundingPortalsOnline lending and investment networks are bringing capital to aspiring entrepreneurs
Virtual realm: innovations
– Graphic artists– Web researchers– Remote secretaries– Photo taggers– Online tutors– Translators– Virtual guardians
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Telework MarketsOnline marketplaces offer 50,000+ projects daily tofreelancers around the world
Virtual realm: innovations
Grassroots realm: innovations
1. Peer-to-peer business systems
2. Entrepreneurial learning ventures
3. Cell phones and internet centers
Grassroots realm: innovations
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Peer-to-Peer business systemsGroups form to borrow or save, with rotating access to capital (100+ million beneficiaries to date)
Grassroots realm: innovations
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Entrepreneurial schools for the poorFamilies in struggling communities are now supporting 1.5 million informal schools that outcompete poorly-run public schools
Grassroots realm: innovations
Cell phone updates on opportunities for microentrepreneurs
PLUS – Payment systems for
vouchers and microlending Digital image/video
recording - with “geotagging” for land registries
Multimedia learning resources (sharable with affordable microprojectors)
Access to online arbitration and “eGovernment in your pocket”
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Cell phones & Internet links3 billion mobile phones -- and counting
About the 3rd (political) realm – how to deal with predatory
institutions?
Most communities remain in the grasp of top-down “gatekeepers”
Yet several kinds of innovative reform are loosening their grip
Political realm: innovations
Political realm: innovations
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FlexiwageSingapore is linking salaries of government employees to annual growth rates of the private economy
Political realm: innovations
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eGovernmentHong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, and South Korea now use online systems for transparent issuance of forms and permits – curbing graft opportunities (while generating online revenues)
Political realm: innovations
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Free ZonesLand values soar with removal of:
•Taxes•Regulatory burdens•Trade barriers•Public sector monopolies•Implicit taxes (corruption)
ZonAmerica (Uruguay), Freeport (Bahamas), Shenzhen, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai
US$ 71.1 billion
in land lease earnings
(Hong Kong from 1970-2000)
US$ 71.1 billion
in land lease earnings
(Hong Kong from 1970-2000)
Political realm: innovations
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Free Zone PartnershipsSuccessful, highly trusted zone developers are looking to partner with communities to launch a new generation of free economic zones
SingaporeSeeking to set up 12 “Little Singapores”
ChinaSpecial Economic Zone offers across Africa
ZonAmericaLaunching new zones in Latin America
Combining the informal, virtual, and political breakthroughs…
How can social networks bring these wealth-creating innovations together…and seed grassroots transformations?
Q
“Seeds of Change” opportunity
We can start by offering digital gifts through cell phones and the Internet – gifts whose value is linked to local action on the asset-awakening opportunities
What breakthroughs can be loaded onto an $8 MicroSD card?
Social networks can support new breakthroughs by offering:
“How to” videos featuring bootstrap schools/health clinics in poor areas that have become self-sustaining
Microvouchers that ensure “day one” access for residents to regional and global eLearning and eHealthcare providers
Startup work-study projects whose completion by students and jobseekers is a springboard to global telework markets
Access to allied microlending and microinvestment sites, with further introductions to larger lenders/investors based on digitally recorded progress of grassroots ventures
Links to global volunteers active in social networks and allied campus groups, technology innovators, and policy reform institutes
GrassrootsRealm
Political Realm
Virtual Realm
Social networks offer toolkits, volunteer services, telework and seed funds to local allies who spread skills and awaken assets
CHALLENGE OFFERS
Seeds of Change Opportunity
“Anytime, anywhere” offers for grassroots ventures
Social network offer: Microstipends
“Challenge grants” of microscholarships are spreading awareness of new Internet-enabled learning and job opportunities
Social network offer: Work-study & telework jobs
Online networks are offering work-study projects and freelance opportunities for students and jobseekeers to:
research and prepare video clips on opportunities to self-organize Create “eLessons” that fill gaps in the curricula of existing schools Practice language skills via the Internet with partnering network
volunteers
Source: HorizonLanka.org
Social network offer: opportunity review
Support in creating private land registries using geotagged cell phone pictures and video clips (local groups request online volunteers from GISCorps and Internet Bar Organization)
Help with business plans for entrepreneurial schools, freelance ventures, and free zone land grant development (support from campus groups and volunteer specialists)
Business climate reform advice and scoring of progress in transparency (support from economic policy institutes)
Social network offer: design partnerships
For Songdo in South Korea, a group of Cal State University students generated design innovations for a $25 billion free zone community
Hong Kong-Scale “World City”
Lead developer chosen by competitive tender
5-500 square mile free zone expansion area concession
Innovation Park
Lead developer chosen by competitive
tender
100-1000 acre free zone expansion area
concession
Flow of concession fees paid by developers of expansion areas*
How Seeds of Change offers awaken assets
Success-Sharing Development Partnerships
* Early backers of free zone development -- private investors as well as local and global good causes – receive shares in concession income from incoming developers of success-sharing free zones
Challenge offers of vouchers, toolkits and planning inputs
Global backers provide
catalysts
Mid-size developers
Local Governments
provide transparency-enhancing reforms plus land grants for free zone expansion areas
Large zone developers
Quickstart
by local investor
Next to do
Engage social networks (create quickstart toolkits, develop a reputation-building reward for volunteers, and define standing offers of online assistance for exemplary local projects)
Assemble digital gifts (obtain commitments by luminaries, social capital investors, foundations, and others to support challenge offers
Assist grassroots allies (assist entrepreneurial schools and self-help groups in poor communities to obtain land grant sites and apply asset-awakening reforms)
Replicate the self-funding projects (sponsor competitions to award Seeds of Change resources to new areas seeking to remove barriers to growth)
Next to do: a self-funding cycle
A Self-Funding Cycle to Awaken Assets for the Next Four Billion
To win these benefits, communities commit
prime land grant sites withfree market reforms
Private investorsdevelop phased
projects on the local sites, with
a setaside share for future “Seeds of Change”
challenge offers
Donors offer Microvoucher funds*
as a way to spread valued skills and market opportunities in exemplary communities
*In addition to Microvoucher funds, donors can also provide how-to assistance, eGovernment software solutions, and other online resources promoting transparent business climates
Next to do…
Tools are at hand for social networks to bring “anytime, anywhere” gifts to communities seeking to build their
futures.
Let’s do it!
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Q&A
Opportunity for a reputation-building currency – how a “Freedompoints” system can help asset-awakening initiatives by social networks and local allies
How Freedompoints rewards can grow in step with grassroots breakthroughs – (visual on next slide)