Cities, Their Ecosystems and the Future of the Global Economy
We could also title this; How urban communities will design and develop the future of the global economy, as this is what we are are doing with the Vancouver Ecosystem Alliance Pilot Project.
Hello, Vancouver!
My name is Greg Esau, and I have dedicated my life to learning how cities will use the power of ecosystems to shape the global economy.
The Vancouver Ecosystem Alliance is a pilot project whose purpose it to develop of core base of advocates, catalysts, influencers, change makers, leaders and orchestrators within the Greater Vancouver area and to develop our capabilities around a shared understanding of why civic based, platform hosted strategic ecosystems are the key to shared prosperity and a sustainable global economy.
With this blog and the date of May 2, 2021 we are marking the beginning of a new era of economics: Ecosystemonics.
Is this a bold vision? Absolutely it is!
Is it crazy? Many will think so. All bold visions start out as concepts that the majority will think as crazy. This is the essence of innovation over thousands of years.
However, we are not talking to those people. Yet.
We're talking right now to the millions of people worldwide who understand the full potential of the digital economy.
We're talking to the 1.5 billion people who make this world function every single minute of every single day whose productive output is crippled and hijacked by ineffective, outdated corporate structures, industrial era management and leadership systems, toxic work environments and incentive systems.
We're talking to the hundreds of thousands of people whose domain expertise and culture collectively can transform how we work and produce value from that of the "old economy" to that of the new economics of platforms, ecosystems and digital property.
United in an alliance of civic nested ecosystems, we can....and we will guide the world through the greatest transformation in human history.
Ecosystems: The Next Generation of Markets
Cities and markets have been the basis of the economy for over five thousand years. Capital and technology evolved together to accelerate the growth of both in the industrial era.
Communication and information technologies allowed the organisation and scale needed to move goods and services to the people who required them.
These basic components were the building blocks of the global economy, along with the types of business and political ideologies that would come to dominate in this environment.
When information and communication technologies began to evolve and take root in the 1950's, the seeds were sown for an economy based on a very different set of organising principles.
With the internet's WWW emerging in the early 1990's, the platform now allowed an organisation to scale in ways unimaginable a few years earlier.
Twenty-five years on, digital platforms now dominate and are disrupting every aspect of modern economic life. And it is data and its value capture that allows these mega-entities to dominate.
This is both a threat and a tremendous opportunity for cities and citizens.
These opportunities can only be unlocked via ecosystems and their unique problem solving properties.
And crypro-currencies will allow us to capture and share this co-created value in ways the corporate organisation never could.
This is why we are here.
This is what the Vancouver Ecosystem Alliance Pilot Project will allow us to learn and grow:
A global economy by citizens, for citizens.
The new economic reality is we not need corporations for the means of production and distribution of goods and services.
The new economic reality is that these two hundred year old institutions and the power that grew around them are the main barriers to the full potential of the digital economy.
An alliance of civic nested, platform hosted ecosystems will take their place.
We Are The Economy
This is a theme I will repeat often. Ecosystems can reflect this reality.
But we have to want it. We have to work for it.
The Vancouver Ecosystem Alliance Pilot Project is our gateway to this new economic future.
Stay tuned. We already have the capabilities.
We just have to organise.
All the best,
Greg
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