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International participative financing found


project contact:

octaviofsalles@gmail.com

participants:


Octavio Francioso Salles



summary:

The project consists in use technology to create an online tool to optizmize the financing of a great variety of pionering projects





2013 round 2

Project idea[edit]

The Project Idea is create a unified system on a online "financing' tool to great variety of areas and groups with non-capitalist purpose(includind of course the wikipedia); encouraging the action of independent iniciatives and its political articullation -such as artists, like movie makers and musicians,independent media ,digital educational plataforms,scientifical projects, softwares developers and organized social movements for example- which has difficulty to be visualized by the great public and financed.The ideia is create a tool(applicative) wich can be used in all of those transactions very easily .The applicative can be also used to invest in a central found (made of a very small percentage of the other transactions, and from direct investment of volunteers)This found is gonna me the central of the Project, because he will be managed directy by the "foundation" participats in a democratical budget way-(in a social network based way to develop debates and discution) beeing used directy to invest in other major projects submiteed to the foundation. This ways all transactions will become a found to exponencialy finance a lot of other projects like de inicial invested one, creating a cicle of democratical budget participation-debates-and - helping financing pioneering projects. The tool would be first used in the wikipedia financing campaign and would be promoted to other partner groups to gather.


Project goals[edit]

The goal of the project is to create a network using new technological communication tools in the web to help viabilize projects with non profitable and no capitalist relations basis(like the wikipedia) and helping the financing of these iniciatives.


Part 2: The Project Plan[edit]

Project plan[edit]

Scope:[edit]

Scope and activities[edit]

The Project is based on two fronts; the development of the online struture and the develompment of a political network of groups interessed directly with the participative financings


Tools, technologies, and techniques[edit]

The project will be based on social-meetups and software development


Budget:[edit]

Total amount requested[edit]

US$30.000

Budget breakdown[edit]

Software development- US$10.000 Meetings and logistic -US$15.000 Merchandising-US$5.000


Intended impact:[edit]

Target audience[edit]

Social groups and iniciatives- and its supporters (ussually young people with political concern)


Fit with strategy[edit]

Increasing financing of the wiki movement and Increasing Participation and promoting the ideas


Sustainability[edit]

The project would be and experiencie to an permanent financing tool


Measures of success[edit]

Participant(s)[edit]

-Octavio Salles octaviofsalles@gmail.com (project creator) - International Relations graduated-Experienced with social movements and cultural activist -Carlos Gomes - Software development graduation- experience with creation of softwares, hosting web sites and social media- Open Source/Digital and cultural activist -Diego Ferrari Lopez - International relations graduated - experience in creating web sites and softwares- open source/digital and cultural activist


Discussion[edit]

Community Notification:[edit]

The discution in the group is based on the consense that many of groups are having difficulty in making viable its project by economic problems(even the big an importamts ones;like wikipedia, wikileaks and piratebay, even thou they are suported by a great many number of people(who find difficulty in getting in contact to suport this groups). Please paste a link to where the relevant communities have been notified of this proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions, here.

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