1. Co-Creating a Community of Impact
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Dino Karabeg, David Price, Sam Hahn
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2. The scale and complexity of humanity's actions on our planet threaten
individual and global well-being for current and future generations
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3. Many well-intentioned projects and efforts have formed (and are
forming) to address these challenges
Challenges Projects
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4. 4
Yet the intended improvements remain elusive
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5. How can we be the difference
that makes the difference?
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6. Go Meta
Challenges Projects
Bootstrap the theory, practice and ethos of collaborative impact
To help each other become consciously and progressively better at getting better
Community
of Impact
Bootstrap
Values
Insights
Principles
Culture
Collaboration
Practices
Tools...
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7. Focus on the systems, not just the symptoms
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8. Transform our observations, conversations, understanding,
investment, innovation, values, practices,…
Symptoms
Systems
Malnutrition
War
Poverty
Declining
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Disease
Scarce Resources
Ocean Acidification
Population Growth
…
Finance Energy Politics Transportation Communication Knowledge Commerce Health Education Law Spirituality Water Food …
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9. An Inclusive and Holistic approach
Projects
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Challenges
Wholeness
Systemic Innovation

10. Sources of Inspiration
Fuller
Maathai
Ostrom
Kwan Yin
Jantsch
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Lao Tzu
Who Inspires You?
Engelbart

11. Establish a Community of Impact to bootstrap the theory, practice, and
ethos of collaborative systemic innovation for the well-being of all
World
Autopoeisis
Intentional systemic renewal
Continual co-creation
Planning, design
Evolving collaboration DNA
I
Dialog
Tenacity to reach for truth
Courage to reach for awareness
Personal presentation
Values co-existence
Principle-centered
We
Improve the improvers (ABC)
Transparency
Federation
Open participation
Collective intelligence
Build Community of Impact
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12. Simple Initial Bootstrappable Framework
for COI Membership
The Call to Action:
1. Understand and align with COI principles and practices
2. Self-declare COI Membership (opt-in
(via unidirectional
“Communication and Commitment to Collaborate” (CCC)))
3. Declare objectives, values, charter, RoE
Be explicit about “social benefit” objective(s)
4. Conduct retrospectives (introspectives) and publish findings
(within the team, transparent to community?)
5. Leverage and Be Leveraged (non “zero-sum”)
6. Conduct mutual retrospectives (peerspectives) (transparent to
community?)
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13. CCCs – Weaving the Conscious Web

14. Proposed conventions and practices?
• Declare and Publish COI “I, We, World” Statement:
– Conscious action – how each dimension is enhanced / supported by execution
– credo / values / mapping / alignment / commitment strategy
– Transparency / Commitment / Proactivity
– Gestalt / community world view
– Display COI logo
• Leverage:
– Create new projects, entities, objectives… as alignment is discovered and … strengthened
– Leverage consciousness, transparency, receptivity, openness
– Reflected in the “COI Filing”
– Network the impact of membership network
• Engage in regular or continuing retrospectives (Bootstrapping)
– Introspectives / Learning
– Peerspectives / Learning / Checks & Balances
– Community “self”-governance
– Mutual accountability (non-centralized, non-hierarchical)
– Network the learning practice
– Publish retrospectives and make execution / operations transparent
• Within levels / circles of “trust” / transparency (immediate “partners”, entire COI, or “world”?)
• Statements as well as retrospectives content
• Coi.<<entity>>.TLD or <<entity>>.COI
• COI itself performing the retrospectives practices (intro- / peer-)
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15. Connecting Aligned Initiatives
Invite?
 Intl Soc Systems Science (ISSSS)
 Program for the Future
 Club of Rome
 Millennium Foundation
 Buckminster Fuller Institute
 Knowledge Federation
 NextNow / Collaboratory
 The Club of Zagreb
 DebateGraph / Global Sensemaking
 Institute for New Economic Thinking
 TopicQuests / KnowledgeGarden
 SolrSherlock
 Induct / Open Innovation
 GlobalGEA / Blue Star Silicon Valley
 4 Years Go
 Liquid Server
 Foundation for Conscious Evolution
 WASI
 International Visual Literacy Association
 Int’l Soc Svc Innovation Professionals
 +++
Launch New?
Dynamic Knowledge Repository
Education NG
Collective Creativity Course
Journalism NG
Science NG
Conscious Transparency NG
EU: Open Innovation
WYSIWYDo
Collaborology (aka collaborapology)
“Conscious Self”
Dictipedia
CCC’s / FOC
GlobalSIM & GlobalVIZ
Knowledge Engineering NG
LearnTweets
IP NG / New Currencies
HeartyKin
eGovernment
“8th Continent”++
“Gestalt” / weltanschauung / worldview
…?? ++
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16. 1. Register & participate (co-create) at: CommunityofImpact.Info
2. Join the weekly call (Skype) Saturdays 12:00 noon PT (time subject to
change) to connect and find out more (details on the site).
3. Decide whether to join (Yes / No / Find out more).
4. Adopt the practices… and help us bootstrap them
5. Help us create the Community of Impact!
What Next?
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