1 – Make Open Source and Socioeconomic communities meet

• On one hand the knowledge economy that underlies collective intelligence needs to find concrete ways to reward its participants.

• On the other hand the new interest-free monetary systems used by the socioeconomy need to be sustained by collective intelligence methodologies and technologies to be viable and sustainable on a large scale.

At TheTransitioner we work on this cross-fertilization because we believe this is where the critical mass to economic transformation relies.

Links: RP01, RP02?, AP01, AP04, Projects

2 – Write an Open Source Money Manifesto

Today money is private, artificially made scarce, generating horrifying inequalities because of the interest (among other reasons), catalysing egoistic and destructive behaviors, centralized in non-democratic powers, managed by minorities that jealously maintain their privileges. The Manifesto? declares the right of citizens to define, issue and use public currencies architectured upon collective requirements.

Links: Manifesto?, Why a Manifesto?, AP06, Projects

3 – Design and Launch Open Source Money

Money is missing, money is scarce. Which money by the way? National Currencies of course! What prevents a large and diverse enough number of players to create their own currency that is built on shared value territories? Open source Money is a top priority.

Links: AP04, Open source money, alternative currencies?, Projects

4 – Build Open Source market platforms

These platforms already exist. They have names such as Sourceforge.net for open source software projects, or eBay for people-to-people selling. The aim here is to take up the principles and adapt them to socioeconomy and knowledge economy.

Links: AP03, Platforms?, Projects

5 – Raise Knowledge Ecosystems up to real Knowledge Economies

Open source software movement as well as the many thinking and action streams initated by Cultural Creatives in the Cyberspace cannot work within the classic Economy frame and its related national currencies based on competition and scarcity. The knowledge socioeconomy, built on the paradigm of abundance and collaboration, is the right candidate to transform current knowledge ecosystems into a real knowledge economy with its related currency system. Barriers are mostly cultural and conceptual.

Links: Knowledge Ecology, Knowledge Socioeconomy, Hierarchy of Economies, Scarce resources, RP02?, Projects

6 – Develop Collective Intelligence

None of the above projects can evolve without Collective Intelligence. Practical as well as theoretical aspects should be developed. Open source currencies? and related platforms? are practical aspects. Theoretical aspects are developed by the CIN? and connected research players.

Links: About collective intelligence, CIN?, projects page

7 - Raise funds

Until proved otherwise we are not yet in the real knowledge economy. Financing in national currencies is necessary so that those who invest themselves full time can have a decent living for the transition time. This funding can come from diverse foundations, the EEC (which encourages this kind of initiative), corporate sponsorship and as small individual donation (small streams make mighty rivers).

Links: AP07, Fund Raising?, Projects