{"id":1611,"date":"2023-10-14T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T10:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2023-12-30T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T06:08:48","slug":"resilient-economy-05-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/resilient-economy-05-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Resilient Economy 05 &#8211; What&#8217;s next?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s Next? Let\u2019s put the Theory into Practice!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now we know what we want to achieve and all the beautiful principles, how do we implement a program to realize such a challenging shift?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution Proposal: Extraterritorial Cooperatives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extraterritorial Cooperatives are member-owned organizations across countries and continents, using digital platforms, focussing on the everyday reality of the life of 99% of the world population: work, sell, buy, exchange, organize, learn, teach, educate, communicate, and find workforce and money for projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s start with the <strong>FaQ<\/strong>, it\u2019s a good shortcut. We anticipate the questions, so the readers don\u2019t have to ask, it saves time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We get these questions from readers first:<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201c<\/strong><em>But how can we make sure to make an impact? Why would this work, when everything else failed?\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Easy! We have plenty of digital technology and low-cost solutions in our toolbox. And a lot of experience running massive governance programs all over the world. We offer free services to a wide range of populations, asking for nothing in return than buying one share of the cooperative. Take your economic destiny in your hands for free. That sounds better than \u201cGive me your money to feed my Ponzi Scheme\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li><em>How can we make sure to do it in the right way?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s called Decentralized Autonomous Competency-based Agile Governance. It is perfectly auto-regulating, by design. Fully Member-owned, one person = one voice. No power concentration, no monopoly, no politics necessary. Cooperatives are out there for a while\u2026 Currently, the ICA (International Cooperative Alliance, UN-backed) counts 3 million cooperatives covering 12% of the world population. We don\u2019t invent cooperatives, we make them extraterritorial and equip them with a global fixed-value currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\">\n<li><em>\u201cWhy would people join?\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The network of extraterritorial cooperatives is free and practical service-based. We don\u2019t sell anything, we empower and enable people to sell, buy, rent, lend money, and any other things for free.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"4\">\n<li><em>\u201cAnd how would people know about it? Isn\u2019t marketing expensive?\u201c<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cooperatives are organized in federations and alliances, all with existing communication networks. We need to talk to a few people in Brussels (ICA) that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"5\">\n<li><em>\u201cHave you already done it?\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at our Qaori Program, visible on <a href=\"https:\/\/qaori.coop\">https:\/\/qaori.coop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"6\">\n<li><em>\u201cAre there no legal problems?\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beauty of the Thai Cooperative Act combined with the Social Enterprise Act is that any activity of our Qaori Cooperative is fully covered under Thai legislation. Even the banking and crypto exchange service, for members only, is totally legal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"7\">\n<li><em>\u201cHow do you measure the success of your program?\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One KPI will be the number of members joining, the other important one will be the activity level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"8\">\n<li><em>\u201cHow do you finance the program? Where does the money come from?\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything we have done so far is 100% bootstrapped by InterTaG the Thai company and Rosho, the founder. The smart use of low-cost technology has kept the investment to a minimum level. No external investor or business partner has given us a cent, no debts, no reimbursements. The platform cost is less than 1000 USD per month for the first million users. When ramping up the millions, more development is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Qaori Foundation is another instrument to assure the cost of launch of the cooperative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope that some people can join and participate to kick off the endeavor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cooperative is supposed to auto-finance very quickly the global expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members have to pay one share of 27 USD in developed countries and less in other countries. Cooperatives and Federations will get extra pricing for all their members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We intend to charge 1% of transaction fee for money leaving the platform, but any of these proposals are subject to cooperative governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is also an advertising program open to all members, that will generate revenues to the platform to pay employees, legal fees, licenses, and technical fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A precise financial plan remains to be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s Next? Let\u2019s put the Theory into Practice! Now we know what we want to achieve and all the beautiful principles, how do we implement a program to realize such a challenging shift?\u00a0 Solution Proposal: Extraterritorial Cooperatives Extraterritorial Cooperatives are member-owned organizations across countries and continents, using digital platforms, focussing on the everyday reality of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resilient-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qaori.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}