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WE ARE HELPING DEVELOP SOFTWARE
FOR TRANSITIONING TO THE NEXT ECONOMY.

The next economy must be driven
by human and ecological needs rather than profit.

And it will be networked.


WE ARE HELPING DEVELOP SOFTWARE FOR TRANSITIONING TO THE NEXT ECONOMY.

The next economy must be driven by human and ecological needs rather than
profit.

And it will be networked.


HOW DO WE WANT TO INTERACT IN THIS NEXT ECONOMY?

By means of conversations for action leading to cooperative creation and
distribution of resources: food, housing, tools, knowledge, care - all the
necessities of life.

Conversations for action because people want to agree on their actions rather
than being commanded. Cooperative creation and distribution of resources because
cooperation makes us all stronger while exploitation makes some stronger and
some weaker and eventually all weaker. Mutual coordination instead of command
and control.

Internetworked because cooperative economic networks will be stronger than
competitive individuals. By internetworking, we can pool ideas and resources,
create things together, and build regional economic ecosystems that can behave
differently from capitalism.

The details of internetworking are simple but evolve into complex systems.

They are input-process-output networks, where the output resource of one process
becomes the input for another. Sometimes the resources are tangible, sometimes
intangible.

The input-process-output networks can grow into economic ecosystems. That's what
we are trying to make happen: connect all the similar but disconnected
experiments toward a better economic system into an actual real-life better
economic system.

Back in the 1990's, when supply chain systems were rising, their motto was "the
best supply chain wins, not the best company". Then the thinking broadened to
the best value system, then the best value network. Now it's the best economic
ecosystem.

But all of these formations under capitalism have a fatal flaw: some of the
participants in the ecosystem are trying to grab more of the value for
themselves, which degrades the whole system.

And by ecosystem, we really mean ecosystem. The economic ecosystem is part of
the whole ecosystem. When any part of the ecosystem tries to grab more for
itself at the expense of some other part, it may weaken the whole system. The
rule should be mutual benefit as much as possible. If you degrade the soil, you
will degrade the crops. If you degrade the crops, you will degrade those who eat
the crops. If you as a capitalist impoverish your workers, they will no longer
be able to buy your products. And so on.


HOW DO WE GET THERE?

We don't know exactly how that will work yet. Lots of people around the world
are doing experiments on the ground.

These groups usually need some operational infrastructure to make their work
more productive. Mainstream software options don't really work well for them,
because the software is designed to support individual capitalist enterprises.

We would like to see all of these experimental networks handle economic activity
using open source distributed software, networked using standard vocabularies
and protocols.

More and more, lots of younger people are working on smaller open source
applications, and applications that will ride on the internet in a distributed
manner. We are working with some of those experimenters and watching the others.

We're interested in collaborating with other software projects who see
themselves as part of the same set of solutions, and other groups who want to
work in close collaboration with this kind of software development.

OUR MASCOT, MUSHY THE CHANTERELLE MUSHROOM

Chanterelles are mycorrhizal mushrooms. (We would have used that as our name,
but who can spell it?!?)

Mycorrhizal mushrooms create networks underground, sometimes very large. They
form mutually beneficial relationships with plants, where the mycorrhizae help
the plants get food from the soil, and the plants help the mycorrhizae get food
from the sun.

Back in the Devonian age, when ocean plants started to colonize the land, they
would not have been able to do so without forming relationships with mycorrhizal
fungi that were already there.

Think of this as the Devonian age of the next economy.

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