Growing the power of community is what Aotearoa-made Wellbeing Protocol is on a path to achieve via Web 3.0 tools.
It requires letting go of inner dialogue around Meta, AI and crypto (!) and being curious about what people are working on to actually make a difference in our communities. Not usually just one topic gets picked out but many are interwoven and build on top of each other.
What is your community working on that would lend itself to a Web 3.0 approach?
Overlaying the graphic of opportunities in Web 3.0 with doughnut economics that show the ecological ceiling and social foundations would result in a messy and overwhelming image but both approaches need each other!
Maybe each Web 3.0 sector needs its own doughnut. Combining planetary boundaries with social foundations comes across from many useful approaches, such as Planetary Accounting Network and Project Drawdown. There are many ways to start looking beyond the financial side of any undertaking or enterprise.
Are you measuring your impact on the planetary boundaries? Is there anything you have learned that can be shared with this network?
Community-Led Enterprise and Social Enterprise are not the same! Exploring what makes them different is an interesting exercise.
With any framework there is a chance we get it wrong. Standards help but there is always more than just boxes to be ticked.
‘Why do we exist?’ is a good start. If it is to solve a problem, then in theory, as soon as that problem is fixed, the purpose of the enterprise is gone. But we never seem to run out of problems.
Until next time. Kia pai tō wiki