Civic Ventures

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Application

Mission

Open Source Ecology intends to build a collaborative development and manufacturing platform that revolutionizes the way that the economy operates today. We design our products in a different way. Our designs are simple and modular. Therefore, they are designed for a lifetime of service. Our goal is to have people gain full control over their technology, like playing with Lego blocks for life-size machines.

Open Source Ecology believes that the next economy is the open source economy - where we all have access to know-how so we can build upon it, unleash innovation, and leave nobody behind.

Our enterprise model is education for disruptive entrepreneurship. We share not only our machine designs, but also our enterprise plans - completely openly.

In 2014-2015, we intend to enter a high-velocity development phase of the remaining machines of the Global Village Construction Set. We intend to finish them all, and document them fully, by the end of 2015. This is our Apollo Project for a regenerative economy. From 2016-2021 - we intend to enter the replication phase - where we build more than 100 facilities world-wide. These facilities are the OSE Incubators - for entrepreneursip training - as a step towards the efficient economy. Our means is to generate a collaborative, open source product development capacity via a network of such development facilities.

OSE History of Successful Hiring

Previous Experience Integrating Experienced Talent: Describe any history of integrating people with significant experience into your organization and effectively utilizing their talent. (Word Limit: 250)

Adrian Hong has joined OSE in the role of organizational consultant, and so far has proven to be priceless in helping OSE in structuring, recruiting, and transitioning to leagal/financial compliance. This is our best success to date. Besides this, this is the first time that we are advertising for permanent positions with competitive salaries.

Fellow Support and Development: Describe how you can help support the Encore Fellow to transition into an eventual career in the social sector, including any possibility of a paid staff role within your organization after the successful completion of their fellowship. (Word Limit: 250)

We are currently hiring and growing. We are looking for seasoned professionals to grow with our company.

Organizational Culture: Briefly describe your organizational culture and list key attributes of your organization that need to be taken into consideration to ensure a good fit with an Encore Fellow. (Word Limit: 250)

OSE has a culture of open, collaborative innovation and learning. We are committed to a long-term view for creative transition of existing systems into the next economy, which we believe will be the open source economy. We believe that open innovation is the route to an efficient and ethical economy. 1. Open source culture - openness is the route to unleashed innovation. 2. Ethical economy - there are fundamental issues of equity in today's economy, and we aim to transcend them without harming anyone and without leaving nature behind. 3. We take a long view - principled approach to creating essential change - and for regenerating the earth - not putting band-aids on deep problems. 4. Absolutely creative approach - transformation happens by creating new options, not taking down existing ones. 5. Learning organization - we value constant learning and improvement 6. Systems approach - we value an integrated, eco-system based approach, as opposed to reductionism. See also OSE Culture.