The document proposes establishing a Community of Impact to collaboratively address global challenges through systemic innovation. It discusses how individual projects have failed to create lasting improvements and that a holistic, inclusive approach is needed. The Community of Impact would bring together aligned initiatives to bootstrap the theory, practice and ethos of collaboration. A simple framework is outlined for members to declare objectives, values, conduct retrospectives and leverage each other's work for social benefit. Connecting existing and launching new aligned initiatives is suggested to transform understanding of issues from symptoms to systems.

1. Co-Creating a Community of Impact
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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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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
Community
of Impact
Values
Insights
Principles
Culture
Collaborology
Practices
Tools...
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7. Focus on the systems, not just the symptoms
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8. Transform our observations, conversations, and understanding
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
Wholeness
Challenges
Systemic Innovation
Projects
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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
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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

12. Simple Initial (and evolving) Framework
for COI Membership
1. Understand and align with COI principles and practices
2. Declare COI Membership (opt-in)
3. Declare objectives, values, charter, RoE
– Be explicit about “social benefit” objective(s)
4. Conduct retrospectives and publish findings
5. Leverage and Be Leveraged
6. Be open to mutual retrospectives
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13. Proposed conventions and practices?
• Publish retrospectives and make execution / operations transparent:
– Create coi.entity.tld
• Eg: coi.amazon.com, coi.mycompany.com, coi.ibm.com
– Register entity.coi (or eventual TLD)
• Eg: amazon.coi, mycompany.coi, ibm.coi
• Display COI logo
• Network the learning practice
• Network the impact of membership network
• Mutual accountability (non-centralized, non-hierarchical)
• Leverage consciousness, transparency, receptivity, openness
• Incubate projects

14. Connecting Aligned Initiatives
Connect Existing?
 DebateGraph
 Knowledge Federation
 The Club of Zagreb
 NextNow / Collaboratory
 Program for the Future
 Global Sensemaking
 Institute for New Economic
Thinking
 TopicQuests / KnowledgeGarden
 SolrSherlock
 Induct
 GlobalGEA / Blue Star Silicon
Valley
 4 Years Go
 Liquid Server
 Buckminster Fuller Institute
 Millennium Foundation
 Club of Rome
 ISSS
 Foundation for Conscious Evolution
 WASI
 …?? ++
Launch New?
Dynamic Knowledge Repository
Education NG
Collective Creativity Course
Journalism NG
Science 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”++
…?? ++
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15. 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. Help us create the Community of Impact!
What Next?
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