As the founder of the Qaori initiative, I would like to explain my personal reasons and purpose for this ambitious endeavor.
Why does it make sense for me to invest so much energy (and money) into building a global social platform? Why do I believe it is necessary to have such a complex toolbox in the current time, where everything exists already? We have amazingly successful, popular, and useful Amazon, Facebook, Eventbrite, Uber, Spotify, etc. Why start again and rebuild such a complete ecosystem on one independent platform?
My company is called InterTaG, short for the “Internet of Transformation and Governance”. That says it all already, but I should elaborate on the reasons for such an arrogant name.
Why such a new Internet? What is wrong with the one we have? What is behind this concept of transformation and governance?
The current Internet is built on centralized corporations, concentrating incredible amounts of information, power, and money into a few billionaires’ pockets, as sympathetic or antipathetic as possible. It is built around underlying monopolist technology and managed centralized by a small number of organizations in the USA. Such cumulated concentration is not sustainable and even less resilient.
Ideas have been developed to counterbalance the status quo, and Bitcoin and blockchains have emerged. But we are still far away from distributing more equally. Or have you been able to buy a liter of milk or bread with cryptocurrency recently? It’s a start in the right direction of decentralization, autonomy, and competency-based governance, which I consider the pillars of a resilient and sustainable economy.
What can we do if the governments fail us and the banks are endlessly greedy?
We can take things into our own hands and create private extraterritorial social initiatives that are member-owned and governed. If such social cooperatives can profit from a stable currency and are operated mostly digitally, we might have a proposal for a solution.
As a father, I want to ensure my children’s future and leave behind a legacy.
I have accumulated decades of experience working for corporations, administrations, governments, and banks, but how can I assure an efficient transmission of this experience to the next generations? Some people write books, and some are good at storytelling, but I am a builder. So, I decided to create the next Internet, the Internet of Transformation and Governance.
The ambitious name is clearly more of a project or a vision than a reality. But do I not always say:
“The World is a Project. Let us run it like one!”
Qaori is the project where all my experience and insight that I could gain will be used to build a new system to make the old broken system obsolete. It should serve as a toolbox for future generations, empowering them to build the next version of the world as they project it. Their vision might be more sustainable, inclusive, inspiring, and engaging for young people, especially the feminine population. I firmly believe the change will accelerate when significantly more women assume leadership roles.
If ever you feel inspired, please read through the 12 principles of the Augmented Leadership Manifesto, which I co-authored with Otmar Jenner as a collaborative version on Github or rosho.world (illustrated by Amanda). The other pillar of Qaori is my Resilient Economy Theory, explaining that its foundation lies in 3 simple principles: decentralization, autonomy, and competence-based governance.
Yokohama, 23/02/2024
