What’s the big deal with eco-systems??
One thing we’re starting to see pop up all the time now is the word ‘eco-system!’ It seems to be the new way to describe a group of people or companies working together. Or maybe we are just more carefully designing the way we do work together?
What does it actually mean?
“A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment” or “a complex network or interconnected system.”
When you look at companies like Google, Apple and Facebook (the kinda biggish ones!), they’re all building this large network/eco-system of products and businesses within an industry that all share data, and work together seamlessly. Google is a more information driven eco-system, Apple a more entertainment and media driven and Facebook more connectivity and communication.
Google’s eco-system with Search, Plus, Drive, Maps, Android, YouTube and there’s heaps more!
For large businesses like them it is most likely a strategy to own their market and have a full platform of services for people. They want to be the “one stop shop” of sorts for their niche. Makes sense, right?!
But…like I spoke about in my TEDx Talk, what if the building of eco-systems that align with natural law was based on more than our ego? What if we built eco-systems that are truly collaborative and guided toward collective visions instead of individual ideals?
We all know that right now there are way too many companies, organisations, communities and people all working toward the exact same thing, but because of our ego we don’t pursue collaboration. So we end up competing for time, money and attention. Any true impact-driven organisation or person would be extremely open to the idea of collaborating with other similarly driven people to achieve a common goal.
What if there was an eco-system or self-organising online collaboration platform that was built on a set of collective visions around major topics (such as health, education, energy, etc), and designed around natural laws and permaculture to allow people and organisations from around the world to organise and collaborate around these visions. Imagine an eco-system built purely to allow organic collective progress for our generation!!
This is one thing that we are working towards at Onely and with the ONEWorld Summit Series.
It would be awesome to hear your feelings and thoughts on this topic! As you can tell this is something I am actively pushing for and so would be great to chat…just email me 
BE well always!
