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Clay Shirky spoke at a round table today about creating long term groups that build something over time that don't involve incorporation.
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3 months ago 0 + -I'm not sure that there are no sustainability communities that are primarily online, amongst the 1 million estimated by David Korten. See for example the emerging field of open design communities (http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design, see in particularly our product hacking page).
What I think is key is the distinguish the sphere of abundance which enables self-aggregation and can be peer governed, and the sphere of the infrastructure of cooperation, which is scarce and costly, and may require a formal organization. But the latter should in no way impinge on the former. Thus, the NGO model is turned around: the community is primary, the ngo just a technical means to enable the community; as long as the first is 'open and free', and the second is 'participatory' and both are united in a web of trust, I think the model can work, and I believe there are indeed thousands of such communities already.
Of course, I may have misunderstood Clay's argument.
Michel