Shawn – Beyond One World

I have spent another night awake with bursts of what can be done, how it will work and what I really should be doing and I think there is one point that I  haven’t made clear enough or even explained properly.

Imaging owning the world, imagine owning Google, Microsoft, any corporation, the Governments, in fact everything. I flippantly tried to pass this thinking into the question of what you would do if you owned the world. Well this is how it all works.

I mentioned before about the Open Company Specification, which I failed to start up in OpenOutsource some years back. It was essentially that all users of the company, owned it. Not like a cooperative, with hierarchical structure and management but in a flat, one level system whereby you were able to take part in the company at any level you wished in collaboration with everyone else. In fact Beyond One World is an artifact of the idea behind that, in that everyone would own it.

If you think of Open Source, the work that goes into it by people dedicated mainly to ensuring that the application fulfils the purpose you want from it. The lay that idea upon a company, you put in systems for fulfilling tasks, making decisions, having different people take on different roles within it in an absolutely free tasking market then it becomes the Open Company Specification. Simply then, you add all the companies and organisations of the current world that run under this system and ten you have Beyond One World. You are in equality and full collaboration in ownership of the whole workd and beyond.

How does this work at the beginning? All the functionality and information on Beyond One World will be owned and controlled by its members. I am trying to prepare a forum, a wiki, a tasking system and a social web using current Open Source tools that will in the beginning simply fulfil their set requirements. However, again these will be owned by the members of the system and no changes will take place once this has been established without the control of its members. Imagine having Tweet, Facebook etc and able to also collaborate and agree on exactly what it will do. There will be no company behind it to enforce rules and any profit that the system makes belong to the people as a whole.

If Beyond One World were to jointly work on creating a search engine, then it will belong to everyone who is part of it. If Beyond One World were applied to telecoms, then again the same idea would be applied. Let’s take it to a dangerous extreme, what if it were applied to banks – would we charge each other interest???

Working on this system is the only way to remove any centres of self interest and corruption. One of the ideals is that openness and transparency are a must in a system like this so that everything that was done would be open to everybody – to question, to learn and to make better.

Logically, I cannot see any way that we can absolutely cure the problems that we have in this world without this free collaborative framework that makes everybody in the world an equal participant. To be able to tackle problems and requirements from the personal level to the global.

I cannot tell you how this could work. I haven’t myself worked it out. I cannot give a clear picture that you could look at and say AHa! that’s how to do it. All I have at the moment is that we must establish our highest ideals, to work out the ethics and direction that every part of this system will work to. They should be our highest, our most positive, aimed at doing the most good for everybody. Also all I can see at the moment technically is that the platform for discussion, agreement and open development is needed to carry out this work. My choices of application at the moment will seem simplistic in the future, but it will change. It will belong to all those that want it. I believe out there are the dreamers, the pioneers and the achievers that are capable of putting this all together. It’s work would be the biggest collaborative work our history has ever seen – but it will absolutely benefit everybody and will be to our highest ideals.