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Edgeryders

Minds wide open

geryders is a network of 1600+ people and organisations from around the globe building social

d technical infrastructure to get radically innovative projects off the ground and keep them

ere. People in Edgeryders are experimenting with everything from urban gardening for food

curity, occupying unused spaces, exploring crypto currencies and building spaces for new

ds of democratic participation.

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obal unrest, rapid climate change, mass unemployment, outdated governance structures.

eryone at the centre says they want innovation, but after reviewing thousands of pages of

nographic data, first hand accounts of HOW people are realising these innovative responses to

stemic crises and instability, we found that the actors you would expect to be there, are

where to be seen. Why is that? Well get to that later. But first, a microscope on some of the

des in the Edgeryders network.

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oblem: gap in innovation support system for pre-market and radical innovation. Like artist

idency but for innovators to take on social problems with local community. From idea to

ototype and changes in policy in less than 12 months. Problem would otherwise take 10 years

solve.

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oblem: liquidity constraints brought on by crises criple local economies. Solution: algorithm for

twork bartering.Its called Economy App Moneyless economy for the 99%.

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oblem: fighting organised crime. Solution: Maffia-free equivalent of fare trade labelling for

sinesses that step forward and refuse to pay protection money to the Maffa. Easier for

nsumers to support them and inspires others to also act against organised crime by showing

at if you do it, no one will come after you.

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ople experimenting with alternative responses to new problems exist on the edge. People

king for answers & who have resources live here. From the centre the edge is stormy and

essy. So the people with resources ask the Mckinseys of the world to help make sense of

ats going on. But they, like the clients they are trying to help live in the centre. The centre asks

e wrong questions and tries to solve the wrong problems. This next cartoon illustrates the

evailing wisdom

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ople want innovation, but innovation thats already been done. Disruptive innovation is

possible to evaluate even in theory. Evaluators try to measure it in terms of the world they live in

d does not contain the innovation), whereas innovators try to build the world which does

ntain the innovation. The former are accountable to the present; the latter to the future. Einstein

d a great line about it the insanity of repeating the same process and expecting different results.

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pitalism is ever changing but right now it is changing very quickly and quite unpredictably. Out

these changes will come winners and losers. Schumpeter gave the classic description of this

ocess when he called it "creative destruction". Anyone who doubts the destruction part need

y look and what has happened to Blackberry and to Nokia.

stein has a nice line about the insanity of repeating the same process and expecting different

ults. So, "Business As Usual" is now totally last century..and the incumbents in the consulting

ustry no longer have all of the answers.

Edgeryders we don't claim to have them all either and we are not saying that you should hire

instead of them.

e reason for hiring Edgeryders is perspective. The analysis we can give will not only be un-

tainable from anyone else but it will allow you to re-interpret the results you get from the

umbents in a different light.It is only by standing at the edge of a precipice that you start to see

e path down. The Edgeryders community and corporation are already at the edge....

t us help you start on that journey together.