The document proposes the Openworld Game, which will partner with social networks and localities to spread initiatives that help struggling areas thrive with peer-to-peer support. It will incentivize spreading "seeds of radical abundance" by rewarding participants for assembling starter kits and resources for self-funding community projects. As localities make commitments to projects and reforms, online participants can pledge support like microgrants. The goal is to replicate proven models that empower people and unlock economic potential through grassroots action.
2. Meltdown
› Eroding
wages, failing financial systems,
deleveraging markets
› Billions
of people need ways to build
free, resilient, and thriving communities
6. In the Internet era…
Digital ‘gifts on a
beach’ can help us
spread innovations
around the world
7. The Openworld Game will
work with Facebook groups
and others online to:
› Incentivize
students, jobseekers
and tribes to spread seeds of
“radical abundance”
› Promote projects that awaken
assets on a success-sharing
basis, rewarding participants
who give valued inputs
10. 2
Participants define practical, Starter
self-funding projects in their Kit
areas of interest
They earn points by assembling
“Seeds of change” starter kits
for these projects, freely
downloadable by any locality
11. 2
Online teams can also produce
advanced kits for local allies
Video orientations and eLessons on “early
wins” and long-term upsides can be stored on
US$10 MicroSD cards for cell phones:
› “How to” videos featuring bootstrap initatives in
poor areas that have become self-sustaining
› Microstipends (via Paypal, Bitcoin, etc) that
ensure “day one” access for residents to regional
and global eLearning and eHealthcare providers
› Startup work-study projects whose completion by
students and jobseekers creates credentials for
entry into global telework markets
› Access to allied microlending and
microinvestment sites, with further introductions
to larger lenders/investors
› Links to global volunteers active in social
networks and allied campus groups, technology
innovators, and policy reform institutes
12. 3
› Online participants pledge personal time
and/or microgrants for projects in
communities that make the fullest
commitments
› Ascending levels of support are given to
communities that agree to commit land
and enabling reforms for the ventures
13. To unlock each ascending
level of support…
› Local project champions
digitally record and upload (on
Flickr, Slideshare, Youtube) their
progress in reaching key
milestones
14. Seeds of Change offers can be spread widely!
in informal and formal sectors…
16. And earn points by uploading
local opportunity profiles
› Community profiles
(in the MiiU.org
Resilient Places wiki)
› Slides with ideas on
projects
› Youtube clips of
available sites &
reform commitments
to awaken assets
17. What kind of asset-awakening
reforms?
› eGovernment (pilots of web-based
licensing/permits)
› Transparent land registries
› Alternative Dispute Resolution
systems
› Singapore/Hong Kong-style free
zone policies
› Flexiwage bonus systems for public
sector employees (linking pay to the
economic health of the locality)
18. Examples of land value gains
5x – 50x land value
gains have occurred
in leading free cities
and zones, following
adoption of reforms
The Openworld Game
will encourage
projects that include
local and global good
causes as US$ 71.1 billion
beneficiaries
in land lease
earnings
(Hong Kong from
1970-2000)
19. As localities offer sites for
projects, participants may agree
to begin pilot projects
20. How a local project can unlock ascending resources
As a pilot project advances, localities can digitally record its milestones. Each milestone
can earn “Freedompoints” redeemable (for example) in community microscholarships to
spread skills, microvouchers to access telemedicine, introductory telework jobs,
introductions to investors, and other pre-agreed benefits.
1x
1. Individual shows active interest in radical abundance project opportunities
Individuals
2. Learning circles form to research the proposed new demonstration ventures
3. Entrepreneurial schools & telecenters build valued skills through online
2x
courses, and help jobseekers find projects in global markets for telework
Learning
4. Residents join neighborhood self-help groups, recording arbitration
Circles
pledges and photos of land boundaries to awaken “dead capital”
5. Public officials agree to recognize neighborhood actions and
5x
pilot economic reforms in new “success-sharing zones”
Entrepreneurial
6. Local allies commit prime sites for phased, private
Schools
Multipliers
7. projects (with neighborhood groups, schools, and a
local good causes sharing in land asset gains)
(Microstipends
10x
and other challenge 3. Full-scale Free Zone
offers grow in step Neighborhood
Self-help
2. Innovation Park
with local progress)
1. Quickstart
30x
Reform
Pilots
100x
Success-Sharing Zones
21.
22. What’s next?
› Introduce a working “pledge currency” for radical
abundance (building on Eli Gothill’s Twitter-based currency)
› Prepare a game prototype (with GoogleEarth, Sketchup,
and other off-the-shelf apps)
› Engage social networks (to create Seeds of Change
toolkits, develop a reputation-building reward for volunteers, and
define standing offers of online assistance for exemplary local
projects)
› Assemble digital gifts (commitments by luminaries, social
capital investors, foundations, and others to support challenge offers)
› Assist grassroots allies (with an initial focus on entrepreneurial
schools and self-help groups in poor communities that seek land
grant sites and asset-awakening reforms)
› Replicate self-funding projects (sponsor competitions to
award Seeds of Change resources to new areas seeking to remove
barriers to growth)
23. Let’s do it!
Mark Frazier
www.openworld.com
email: mfrazier@openworld.com phone: +1.202.257.2574
@openworld (updates on Twitter)