[P2P-F] Fwd: Metamapping the emerging next economy ecosystem

Wed Jan 27 17:48:29 CET 2016

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From: jules peck <jules at flourishingenterprise.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:47 PM
Subject: Metamapping the emerging next economy ecosystem
To: jules peck <jules at flourishingenterprise.org>

We thought you would be interested to view and read about a recent webinar
the Next System Project
<http://www.thenextsystem.org/metamapping-the-ecosystem-building-the-next-economy/>
co-hosted with the Real Economy Lab <http://realeconomylab.org/> (REL) and
the New Economy Coalition on “Mapping the Next System” (video viewable in
its entirety here
<http://www.thenextsystem.org/webinar-mapping-the-next-system-2>). The
webinar was partly to announce, and invite involvement in, the next round
of the metamapping of the next economy ecosystem. To get involved please
follow the link at the end of this blog.

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Over 500 people signed up for the webinar, testimony to the growing level
of interest in understanding the evolving next economy ecosystem, its
players, their interrelationships, their theories of change, principles,
values, and practices. These issues form the core focus of REL’s current
metamapping of the next economy world.

Moderated by Gus Speth, Co-chair of the Next System Project the webinar
featured a panel discussion involving Jules Peck of REL, Michel Bauwens of
the P2P Foundation <http://p2pfoundation.net/Main_Page>, Ferananda Ibarra
of  VillageLab <http://www.villagelab.net/> / Metacurrency Project
<http://www.metacurrency.org/>, Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan of Movement
Generation <http://movementgeneration.org/>, and Ed Whitfield from the Fund
for Democratic Communities <http://f4dc.org/>.

Jules Peck opened by presenting
<http://thenextsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NSP-webainrv2.pdf> the
purpose of the Real Economy Lab: to build understanding and awareness of
alternative ways of running and designing a next economy, and to be a
facilitator and connector of next economy change-agents, connecting the
dots and creating the conditions for convergence across the next economy
ecosystem.

Peck and his colleague Benjamin Brownell explained that at the heart of
REL’s online platform is an evolving, innovative, highly visual and
interactive network map of the evolving next economy ecosystem. You can
view Brownell’s overview of the mapping process and visualization outcomes
here <https://youtu.be/eW0W5YKWY3I?t=1h25m>. A Kumu video walk-through
which illustrates the power of this ecosystem mapping can be found here
<http://realeconomylab.org/map-data-video-walkthrough>:

This next economy ecosystem is far from simple. It involves representing
the activity and relationships among a rich array of organizations,
innovations and experiments encompassing the caring economy, the sharing
economy, the provisioning economy, the restorative economy, the
regenerative economy, the sustaining economy, the collaborative economy,
the solidarity economy, the steady-state economy, the gift economy, the
resilient economy, the participatory economy, the new economy, and the
many, many organizations engaged in related activities.

 REL has been surveying the landscape and identifying the linkages between
these diverse initiatives and aims to provide an interactive platform where
the cumulative knowledge, aims, and resources of these movements can be
drawn together in order to seek common ground and drive coordinated action.

The discussion among the panelists explored the value of mapping the next
system:

   - What are the leading and recurring challenges in organizing more
   coherent effort and coalition building within and across this movement?
   What are the obstacles and challenges that arise?
   - What do we, as the constituent parts of a potential movement for a
   next economy, have in common? What principles, values and alternative
   economic paradigms motivate our actions, and where are we ultimately
   aligned? How do we talk about this more openly?
   - How can people and organizations build on one another’s efforts and
   collaboratively work towards a more capable, credible, and coherent
   movement for systemic change? What are leading theories of change?
   - Where are we seeing inspiring or illustrative success stories and
   convergence underway in the movement? How can we measure progress and
   promote positive outcomes?
   - How might we improve the odds of success? How might REL better support
   practitioners and thinkers in the next economy world? What tools, data, or
   support are missing from the system we all work in?

Ed Whitfield, a longstanding campaigner for rights and livelihoods, talked
about putting resources back under democratic control. Asked how the
Southern Reparations Loan Fund intends to change the economy, he explained
that it creates non-extractive funding structures and gets them into the
hands of those who need them. Whitfield emphasized the crucial need for
next economy players to network and collaborate and the valuable role of
tools like the REL metamaps.

Greensboro’s Renaissance Community Cooperative is one of the first projects
backed by the Southern Reparations Loan Fund

Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan from Movement Generation and the Our Power
campaign spoke about the right to have access to the resources necessary
for productive, dignified and sustainable livelihoods. Securing this right,
according to Mascarenhas-Swan, will require all of taking action toward a
‘just transition,’ creating the local living economies that this right
depends on.

Mascarenhas-Swan emphasized the need to “*restore the muscles of
collectivism*” to change the rules of the extractive economy and of
initiatives in places like California where community groups like @APEN4EJ
<https://twitter.com/APEN4EJ> are orchestrating large resource shifts to
move us toward a new economy built on community control. Mascarenhas-Swan
added that we need to recognise the root causes of problems that appear “on
the surface” but that require a clear vision of democratic economic
alternatives in frontline communities around the world.

The Our Power Campaign is building grassroots coalitions for a just
transition in places like Richmond, California

Ferananda Ibarra (@fer_ananda <https://twitter.com/fer_ananda>) spoke
passionately of the crucial role of mapping in collective intelligence and
of tracing the patterns behind past moments of transformation in a “new
expressive capacity,” a harmonization of value systems and the economic
means for enacting them. According to Ibarra, we all need to go beyond just
managing resources, and work instead to  create a “regenerative ecosystem.”

Michel Bauwens spoke about the explosion of experimentation and innovation
in the commons and p2p space and the risks that the ‘extractive’ economy
represents to such developments. He spoke of the need to knit together
different fragmented next economy models such as the commons, open-coops,
sharing, and solidarity economy movements. Ecosystemic thinking is also
needed. In a given locality, new economic institutions like timebanks and
food coops should be connected and working together. For Bauwens, New
Zealand’s Enspiral.org serves as a powerful example of this kind of mutual
support.  He also spoke of the need for new funding models to help make
this sort of work possible.

The Enspiral Network supports and connects a number of innovative efforts
in social enterprise software development.

Jules Peck finished the webinar with a call to all those interested in
these issues to engage with the work of REL. As with any open-source,
open-access resource, the metamapping REL is producing will only be as
strong as the data inputted by participants in the next economy space to
the mapping process.

Please suggest the names and contacts of organizations that should be
included in the metamapping work to REL via email at
*team at realeconomylab.org* <team at realeconomylab.org>.

*Organizations wishing to complete the metamap survey themselves should
feel free to do so at this link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oCEO4VwZgnnPkSX8mSZ8jydNWIQOdCdDuLdgrZuq6jg/viewform?c=0&w=1>
in
order to be included in REL’s next round of metamapping, projected to cover
up to 250 next economy initiatives around the world.  REL also welcomes
other thoughts and feedback via email.*

*This blog posted first at
http://www.thenextsystem.org/metamapping-the-ecosystem-building-the-next-economy/
<http://www.thenextsystem.org/metamapping-the-ecosystem-building-the-next-economy/>
and is also hosted on Huffington Post.*

All the best
Jules
Convenor, Real Economy Lab <http://www.realeconomylab.org>

e: jules at flourishingenterprise.org
m: 07920844802
w: www.flourishingenterprise.org and www.julespeck.co.uk
t: @citizenjules
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