NTW's activity organiser - CreateVillage
Using "CreateVillage" technology, neighbours can see ...or add to:
* Local Activities & Resources
* Neighbours Discussions
or can:
* Kick off or Help Organise a local Activity
The essential purpose of Village technology is to make neighbourhood collaboration easy, particularly among the poor in Australia and everywhere else (without excluding the rich or people who are not neighbours).
Village stays focused on those poorest who DO have internet access,
perhaps via smartphones which may soon enough even overcome literacy problems through voice apps.
Village is a tool BY the poor - long term unemployed in Australia living in 2 public housing estates. It is a tool by which they can magnify their own strength.
"By the poor" is an important perspective from which to understand Village - language creates dynamics.
Empowerment - it's a process
If you’ve ever been disempowered and made to feel incompetent, trying something new is full of fears. There’s nothing empowering about involvement in something where you feel incompetent.
If you are poor, your strategy for survival might have been to appear as deserving of social security or aid money as possible. The idea of having to "lead" anything is no less disempowering than "needing" to follow.
If you have been disempowered, you don’t want training – or testing! You want to be left alone in your dependency with whatever little bit of security you’ve got there. Besides, people already know more about what they need and want than any education could provide.
They know too that the barriers they face are part of the “organising” structures which alienate them. Structures of power become structures of oppression for them.
But how does Village help the poor to empower themselves, when other tools currently available would require training and expertise, depend on and establish leadership and thereby create winners, losers and so recreate poverty?
Village is designed to connect people at the simplest level, and only from there to open up other possibilities.
Having gone to the Village site just curious to find out about local “Activities & Events”, it's made easy to explore involvement without expectation, consequence or identification. Your “exploration” or possible “involvement” remains under your control, whether it is just for idle chit chat or deeper involvement.
Village supports – it doesn’t lead, or ask you to lead or to follow and it doesn’t require expertise or qualification. One day soon it may be possible to do this without requiring any literacy at all. On Village you can speak up and be heard at any time about any subject or activity. Whether it’s about garbage collection or changing the world, the Village technology helps to give what you say maximum relevance by putting it right into the middle of the right conversation and, when ready, by helping convert ideas into easy steps and a timetable for action.
(Check out how it can work for "planting an orange tree")
@landrights4all
Using "CreateVillage" technology, neighbours can see ...or add to:
* Local Activities & Resources
* Neighbours Discussions
or can:
* Kick off or Help Organise a local Activity
The essential purpose of Village technology is to make neighbourhood collaboration easy, particularly among the poor in Australia and everywhere else (without excluding the rich or people who are not neighbours).
Village stays focused on those poorest who DO have internet access,
perhaps via smartphones which may soon enough even overcome literacy problems through voice apps.
Village is a tool BY the poor - long term unemployed in Australia living in 2 public housing estates. It is a tool by which they can magnify their own strength.
"By the poor" is an important perspective from which to understand Village - language creates dynamics.
Empowerment - it's a process
If you’ve ever been disempowered and made to feel incompetent, trying something new is full of fears. There’s nothing empowering about involvement in something where you feel incompetent.
If you are poor, your strategy for survival might have been to appear as deserving of social security or aid money as possible. The idea of having to "lead" anything is no less disempowering than "needing" to follow.
If you have been disempowered, you don’t want training – or testing! You want to be left alone in your dependency with whatever little bit of security you’ve got there. Besides, people already know more about what they need and want than any education could provide.
They know too that the barriers they face are part of the “organising” structures which alienate them. Structures of power become structures of oppression for them.
But how does Village help the poor to empower themselves, when other tools currently available would require training and expertise, depend on and establish leadership and thereby create winners, losers and so recreate poverty?
Village is designed to connect people at the simplest level, and only from there to open up other possibilities.
Having gone to the Village site just curious to find out about local “Activities & Events”, it's made easy to explore involvement without expectation, consequence or identification. Your “exploration” or possible “involvement” remains under your control, whether it is just for idle chit chat or deeper involvement.
Village supports – it doesn’t lead, or ask you to lead or to follow and it doesn’t require expertise or qualification. One day soon it may be possible to do this without requiring any literacy at all. On Village you can speak up and be heard at any time about any subject or activity. Whether it’s about garbage collection or changing the world, the Village technology helps to give what you say maximum relevance by putting it right into the middle of the right conversation and, when ready, by helping convert ideas into easy steps and a timetable for action.
(Check out how it can work for "planting an orange tree")
@landrights4all