Our Movement aims to promote radical social change by catalyzing the emergence of resilient societies. It is dedicated towards reclaiming, expanding and enriching public services by producing a wide variety of free and open-source software.

The movement's principal focus is to help transcend the current socioeconomic system that is rapidly debasing the planetary life support system, thus putting humanity on a self-terminating trajectory. Our goal is to support progressive governments, both at local and national level, with pragmatic and radical technological solutions for economic and social progress.

Projects

Our contribution spans from digitization of public institutions to more radical measures such as local currencies or various economic networks. Below is a list of some of the projects we intend to develop.

We anticipate developing applications using distributed technologies, specifically HolochainHolochain is a DLT framework for writing fully distributed peer-to-peer applications. It is free and open-source software built by Metacurrency Project, embracing technologies that strengthen our social fabric by distributing power and wealth.

Sharing economy:

• Our Transport — a distributed ride sharing, mail, and freight transport platform
• Our Bnb — a distributed room and apartment sharing platform
• Our Harvest — a platform for community food farming; farmers market platform
• Our Sharing — a tool-sharing platform for various types of needs
• Our Funding — an all-encompassing global crowdfunding platform
• Our Data — a platform for distributed data storage that will utilize idle storage space

Governance:

• Our Rule — an application to enable effective governance
• Our Institutions — a stack of software for digitizing public services

Production economy:

• Our Design — a repository of hardware design blueprints for not-for-profit (NFP) production
• Our Coop — tools for not-for-profit (NFP) enterprises
• Our Store — an online market providing manufactured goods made by non-profit entities
• Our Bank — a bank providing access to capital for not-for-profit (NFP) enterprises

Healthcare:

• Our Health — a collection of digital tools for healthcare management

Finance:

• Our Credit — an application to enable sovereign community currencies
• Our Exchange — a distributed platform to facilitate exchange among community currencies

Licensing

All projects made by Our Movement will be Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)free as in speech and beer, and their source code will be licensed under an OSI-approved license.

Funding

Funding for the movement will come from a few platforms that generate economic activity as part of the sharing economy and gift economy. These platforms utilize ‘<1% Transaction Fee’ business modelthis is a temporary measure and the transaction fees will be dropped once the movement becomes sustainable through donations — fully embracing the gift economy, and are wholly owned by a non-profit organization called Our Foundation — which exists solely as a mechanism to institutionally support the movement. Those funds are then used to also develop other projects that do not have business models.

Contributing

In the past two years we have completed the construction of an alternative office space, a permaculture farm and intentional community called RatPark. If interested in the project, or to get in touch with us, please send us a message on Twitter.

Follow

For updates we recommend you follow @ourmovement_org on Twitter.

This case study is a living document which means it is a work in progress, not completed yet and is being updated. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — unless otherwise noted.