Several people have suggested getting together on collaborative business
projects, creating some kind of virtual company in a new civ setting. Some
message excerpts are at the bottom.
I'm very interested in virtual corporations. They can be sort of a hybrid
between the old civ need for making a living, and a self-organizing
structure that allows the members to be sovereign and self-motivated and
flexible in terms of their scheduling and contributions.
I earlier set up a list in part with the purpose of exploring such matters.
So, I suggest that those of you who are interested in creating some kind of
virtual company or business network join it and we'll find out how we can
work together on this. To subscribe, send a message to:
with the message:
subscribe ncnbiz-L
Just to clarify, this in no way means that NCN is going commercial. This is
just one proposed project
- Flemming
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 01:52:45 -0700
From: Gene&Svetlana Albinder <genesa@best.com>
Subject: business proposition
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Let's base our infrastructure upon the valid working economic model - the
only one we know to work at present - capitalism. But with a twist. We all
know that we would be much happier, if we could earn a living, while
contributing to this very worthy cause - New Civilization. So - let's
create a virtual company - call it "New Civilization Enterprizes, Inc." ( or
whatever other name or legal form we choose ) - and agree to sponsor and
promote only those products and services that bear NCN participation on
them. Example; organically grown produce would be sold through supermarkets
- members of the NCN. While this may be a difficult idea to implement at
first - we can create a virtual "employment" agency of sorts - where the NCN
members post their resume's and the description of what they can contribute
extra-curricularly - community action, contacts, special skills. This data
would be accessible to the NCN members only. When we need to, say, create
public awareness of a particular event taking place in a specific area - we
call upon NCN members, living in that geographic region with a specific
task, outlining the desired action - and we pay that member for his
services. If he happens to be a programmer, for example - we put him im
touch with NCN-member shops that need qualified services and are hiring or
we allow that member to bill those companies and groups, involved in the
specified projects. The groups determine the rate they are capable of
paying, post the summary requirements of what it is they need, and wait for
the skills to announce themselves.
We can start small - like designing an NCN shop - an internet-based store,
that would sell arts, crafts, NCN parafernalia - mugs, t-shirts, jewlery,
non-perishables etc. over the net and the proceeds from that store would go
to a) those who produced the stuff b) to the NCN fund - to actually create
the financial basis of some sort from which to contemplate more daring things.
I am willing to take on coordination and communications with the people that
think this would be a good idea. Creation of the store is mostly painless -
once the inventory is there. We already have a customer base - the cost for
creating a killer web site can be subject to the business arrangements
between the NCN and the artists, who can contribute graphics - the store
engine itself and all the back-end is already there. Maintenance of the
store would run about $400 to $1000 a month - adding new graphics,
maintaining the inventory, filling orders etc - the routine stuff. What
needs to be taken care of is the incorporation costs, setting up merchant
accounts and all the logistics. Once that is done - the store can be
operational in days. Considering that most of us know how to use email - the
word of mouth can be generated overnight - literally. Within a year we can
have working capital for some other, more ambitious projects.
If anyone wants to discuss this - my email address is: genesa@best.com
Cheers,
Gene.
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From: "Roan Carratu" <roan@bibbs.com>
To: ncnculture-l@newciv.org
Subject: Without works, faith is dead
Folks, I want to get things going towards working together in the real
world as well as in cyberspace. I want us to start a import/export
company and really get something that can sustain us economically as
well as finance the strategy. We won't have to do much at first,
individually; just look around our areas and see if we can find
something unique there that could be sold in other countries or other
parts of our countries that might be worth shipping around. If it works,
we could become partners in something that can do great good in the
world. [...]
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From: Wayne Skews <jewelry@iafrica.com>
Subject: import/export
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I reckon that whatever product we choose should follow some basic principles
IE. 1. Helps people in a way more than just to consume - health tea for
instance.
2. Is manufactured or produced in a green way concerning the planet and the
people involved.
3. allows a portion of profits from each process to go to NCN or other chosen
cause.
4. Is sold in a way that promotes NCN or chosen cause in the form of branding
etc.
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