#unMonastery @OUISHARE PARIS

NADIA EL-IMAM
Slides: scribd.com/edgeryders http://www.edgeryders.eu/ Twitter: edgeryders nadia@edgeryders.eu

Friday, May 3, 2013

Hi my Name is Nadia. I would like to tell you about some of the people who are taking on one of key questions facing the sharing economy. Because not only does their work offer alternative answers to that question. It also opens new paths to meeting some of our most pressing societal challenges.

#EDGERYDERS

www.edgeryders.eu

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I am here today on behalf of community called Edgeryders. It started out as a Council of Europe project, devised as a distributed policy think tank to advise goverments on policy. It ended up as a sort of unintended incubator, fostering lots of projects. lots of doing,

ECONOMYAPP

MATTHIAS ANSORG
Open source, open design, open everything enthusiast with a diploma in computer science and a background in all things tech. Entrepeneuring in a lile collaborative consumption startup. In his spare time, making a truck his home. http://ma.juii.net/ neodynos@gmail.com

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EarthOS (Earth Operating System): Meet Matthias Ansorg. Over the past three years he has been thinking about how to design a system apt for dealing with all natural resources in a sustainable way. In addition to sustainability, it explores how to enable living autarkically while still maintaining a reasonable standard of living. So far he has produced a 971 pg long document which looks at the EarthOS from a top down systems engineering perspective. It contains a large amount of technical details and a large, growing selection of existing free & open projects from all areas. The document also serves as a mental framework for relevant future technical detail work.

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Hi is currently buiding Economy App, in and with the Edgeryders community. An innovative web and mobile application for computer-supported multi-party network barter, providing immediately reciprocal transactions. By building communities around this, we generate compensated work (jobs) in local communities, without the need for cash or credit. Economy app has just gone on to the nal of the European Social Innovation Competition.

Resilient health through networks

Lucas Gonzlez Santa Cruz

VINAY GUPTA, JAY SPRINGETT...
Public health physician, monitoring u and helping in readiness against u pandemics. Cooperates with the Hexayurt Project on open tools for fast, cooperative, creative resilience in the face of non-trivial threats. Member of freesoware and open-hardware groups locally. www.imagina-canarias.org lucas.gonzalez.sc@gmail.com Twitter: lucasgonzalez

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All over Europe and beyond we are seeing cuts to different kinds of services. But how do we deal with a reduction of resources to meet the same amount of needs? What do we do if resources for say health are cut to 25% for 2 years? Resources for health being money for staff, equipment, supplies e.g. of insulin etc. Many people are asking these questions and experimenting with solutions. Lucas, Gaia, Vinay, Arthur, Darren and are exploring the value of community in increasing the ability of crucial infrastructures to resist severe shocks without collapsing. That is how do we leverage community to improve the resilience of a place. Why is this relevant? Because they think that the commitment to mutual aid, and social solidarity can be crucial in ensuring people work together to help each other out of crisis. Rather than ghting each other for scraps when things go wrong. As a case study they are collaboratively building a 3 page document. A docoument that could help people to keep their health care systems going in a country where an economic meltdown is happening, or about to happen. http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/helpbuild-edgeryders-p2p-school-resilience/mission_case/report-resilience-session-resilient-health-

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So we spinned it off and later built a company. The idea is to build a sort of open consultancy etc ,while giving the community a chance to be heard (and some paid work!). Theres some science/dev to the way we harvest large-scale conversations. We learned the basics from the CoE project and are now ready to do it more rigorously at larger scale. in the Edgeryders community the sharing economy is popular and practiced, a lot. And yet, there is a question that does not go away:

Making money vs making sense

IF SHARING IS SO GREAT...
Then why are so many sharers struggling?
When it comes to work it is increasingly dicult to reconcile making money with making sense.

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People do work to make a living. Others do work to make meaning. But the two works are not the same work. There are many questions to be answered with regards to the sharing economy. we need to address them. How to juggle the need to produce meaning with need to make money?

Making money vs making a living

MAKING A LIVING
HOW DO I PAY THE RENT? WHO AM I IN THE EYES OF OTHERS? WHAT DO I GET OUT OF BED FOR? WHERE DO I SEE MYSELF IN 5 YEARS?

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it came out of three realisations. The rst is that when we talk about making money, or more broady, making a living we are talking about fulllling three different needs. And that if we look at them separately we can nd more alternatives for making a living. We may not have a lot of money.... so how could we can innovate our lifestyles as a way of supporting each others innovative and meaningful work?

The UNMONASTERY

EDWIN MINGARD
BEN VICKERS, OLA MOLLER, EIMHIN...
"everyone felt that they knew of places around Europe with seriousstructural problems, which were oen the same - things such asunderused building stock combined with homelessness; a feeling ofcommunity breakdown and lack of rootedness; high levels of youth unemployment; low levels of computer literacy..etc. At the same time, we each felt that we had a set of skills that were under-used... or which we could put to use in a socially-conscious way. So we pick a place. We movethere as a smallish group. we work, alongside local residents, to help the community adapt in a positive way... http://www.edgeryders.eu/unmonastery http://goo.gl/XI66t Twitter: unmonastery
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The unMonastery is one of the more ambitious and radical responses that the community gave to this challenge. It draws inspiration from the 10th century monastic life to encourage radical forms of innovation and collaboration. A sort of lay, off-grid mendicant order striving for a society that can better withstand present and future systemic crises. Members of the Edgeryders community are prototyping it in the City of Matera in southern Italy.

#unMonastery

The unMonastery
How does it work?
Its a creative residency for problem solvers. unMonasterians and local residents surface issues to address creatively. People from all over submit proposals for projects they would like to work on. Selected on basis of matching with local and unMonastery needs. Move to Matera for couple of months and work hard!

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So many people are struggling do something meaningful and having to hussle, doing work to have roof over head and food essentially taking time away from what we are passionate about, or would like to learn about. UnMonastery offers them a deal similar of that of the monasteries of old: lodging, board and time to think and realize their ideas, relatively free from the need to make money. Edgeryders from all over Europe move to Matera for a period of a few months. The city of Matera adds to the mix something unMonasterians nd irresistible: an interface to a local community that wants to evolve and has some meaty problems to deal with.

#unMonastery: Why does it matter?

It tackles the conict around making a living and making sense by developing a new culture around work and demonstrating that it is eective. While setting standards that are reasonable e.g. 8-8-8

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The gamble behind this collaboration is that, living side by side, hackers and Materans discover and explore new paths to make the city more beautiful, livable, sustainable and low cost. Can we invent (partly) decentralized solutions to urban hygiene and urban waste collection problems? What can we learn from the ancient tecnhology of rainwater captation and reuse, in use in Matera as late as the 1800s? How do we solve the problem, of moving people and stuff in the Sassi, where there are far more stairways than roads, without choking the city in private cars? Corporates, so far have not solved these problems (in some cases they actually contributed to create them exhibit A being the automotive industry). They cant afford to: companies have a duty to make a prot, and this means innovating only in ways that lead to generating revenue in short and predictable times. Citizens and their unMonasterian guests are not constrained in the same way. They can afford to explore any solution, even wildly visionary ones, and simply discard them if turns out they dont work. Net result: many more attempts, many more failure, but by the law of large numbers, more successes as well. Should somebody stumble upon a solution that can morph into a new company, well, why not?Sviluppo Basilicatas business incubator is across the courtyard from the future unMonastery theyll be happy to help.

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Why this why now? Two trends: Rise of hacker culture + deepening of crises in Europe with cuts to all kinds of services. More young, educated, generous and connected people aspire to a deep societal x, and do not think they can bring it about by joining the public service or by working for the private sector. They dont buy into the gonna change the world Silicon Valley rhetoric; for them, innovating means tackling the fundamental problems of expanding individual freedom, establishing a fair social deal, crafting an environmentally sustainable society. Not inventing gadgets. Their walks of life seem unsettling. Ben who is the primary driving force behind the unMonastery paid his education by obtaining and selling magic items in an online game, then working for one of the rst data mining companies; Edgeryders are technologically savvy, idealistic and almost always poor.

#unMonastery

EPIC WIN!
Pre-call for submissions now open
We want to build one of these in every country in Europe and see them last over the next 100 years. We are building the best prototype we can. come join us, or set up your own: http://edgeryders.eu/unmonastery/join-us-theedgeryders-internal-pre-call-for-unmonasterypledges Twitter: unMonastery

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We are in this for the long hall, as in hundreds of years. The unMonastery is commitment to create a physical & social infrastructure to support how we have congured our lives.

OUISHARE PARIS

THANK YOU
<3 Alberto Cottica, Dougald Hine, Ben Vickers, Christopher Brewster, Noemi Salantiu & the rest of the Edgeryders community.

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