Why CollectiveOne

Organizations will change, and CollectiveOne wants to contribute to making this change happen sooner. CollectiveOne aims to become a network that explores, tests, and develops new ways of collaborating and creating value. It is the result of, among others, the following considerations:

Current companies (and organizations in general) are failing at motivating and unraveling human potential to its maximum. They also divert a significant amount of energy away from their actual purpose and into strategic, protective and competitive considerations. More on this here.

In a globalized world, where billions of people are digitally interconnected, large organizations will need to transcend the natural definition of an “organization”: from being a fixed and relatively closed group of people, to a more flexible structure in which membership is much more liquid. More on this here.

The key will be to empower individuals to get involved and contribute to collective endeavors freely and in a decentralized fashion while recognizing their efforts and translating them into shared ownership and power. More on this here.

Principles

As an answer to these considerations, CollectiveOne proposes an organizational structure and governance rules developed on top of the following principles:

Open collaboration

Similar to open-source projects, entry barriers should be small to let anyone contribute to a project in same conditions as those of previous contributors.

Contribution record and value

Individual contributions should be recognized and valued relative to the rest of contributions, using a project-specific token called “participation points”.

Liquid meritocratic ownership

The ownership of each project should be linked to contributions, and, therefore, to participation points. The more you contribute, the more you own.

Efficient decentralized decision-making

Decisions should be taken openly, letting any contributor take/influence any decision and assuming consent by default. At the same time the method does not require, nor promote, that all contributors influence all decisions, and voting weights can be different among contributors.

Transparency and open data

Projects data and communication channels should be as open as possible, a necessary condition to balance the opportunity to participate. Moreover, transparency in CollectiveOne could reach unprecedented levels, since a detailed record of all the contributions and decisions within a project may also become publicly available.

How to contribute

The faster way to start contributing to CollectiveOne is to get in touch with the rest of contributors through the project Slack, (get your invitation here). There, you can have access to further details and be part of the conversation.

You can also take a look at the current goals of CollectiveOne here and a list of open contributions (which is prone to change) here.