The project GEN-db

The vision

GEN-db is a web-database of knowledge

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Multimedia can be added in structured ways

Projects can visualize their profile

The User-interfaces are multi-lingual and easy

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The vision

Feature-example: Projects can visualize their profile

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The vision

Searching and browsing with interactive features

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Easy tools for eco-tourism and volunteers

Social networking between users and projects

Event-Calendars, Maps, 3D-Visualization, Mobile-devices, Fair-Trade markets, …

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The vision

With the GEN-db you can present yourself and your projects. You can search and browse all kind of information. GEN-db makes it easy to upload media, like documents, pictures, movies or songs. You can communicate with other users and projects about travelling, volunteering or whatever topic. All together in the name of...

'Transition to Resilience'.

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The vision Project GEN-db

” The GEN-db will host useful knowledge and enable both public and moderated evaluation.

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The wayThe department GEN-IS (Information Service) is maintaining the

GEN-db over the next years.

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GEN-IS has over 10 years of experience running a database of ecovillages, doing networking and giving technical support.

All project works are transparent and open, welcoming the contribution of everybody willing and capable.

Tools for distributed project-management are used. A specialized software called Gentool is already in testing-phase.

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The way Project GEN-db

Alpha-release is planned for June 2012.Collecting feedback and improving quality and quantity of

service and data become the key-issues then.

Partnerships and contracting are part of the long-term-maintanance-strategy heading for Win-Win-situations.

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The way

Social-skills like Gender-Neutrality, Religious-Freedom or Non-Violent-Communication are fully respected.

Innovative methods are used, such like Dragon Dreaming, Holacracy or Systemic Consensus.

We do not speak about leaders and rules but about focalizers and recommendations.

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” Whatever we do, the 'rule' is... We have to feel good with it!

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People and partners

Vision

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Several teams are formed inside GEN-IS...

Office

Support

Communication

CelebrationLanguage

Design

Tech

Developer

Tester

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People and partners

Both with personal contact and with a set of user-friendly online-tools GEN-IS is empowering the public to contribute. E.g. online-translation-tools

Several possible partners are already in contact, including 'Gaia-Education', 'Art of Hosting', 'Fellowship of Intentional Communities', 'Federated Social Web', 'GaiaVillages', 'EcoBasa', ...

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” All people want to do their best for the planet. Give them the tools and they love to contribute.

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People and partners

An alliance of three of the strongest players in the Transition-movement is forming. We are working together as a 'community empowering communities'.

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The resources

The GEN-db is quite a big and complex project with several needs arising in following areas...

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Human labor

Project-management

Infrastructure

Travel-expenses

Hosting of meetings

External resources

The most cost-intensive factor is human labor. Even if volunteers are empowered, the project GEN-db will need professional staff. The payment can be far below industrial standards.

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The resources Project GEN-db

One low-paid developer costs about 25.000 Euro per year.

” The yearly cost for the GEN-db appears similar to the cost of a western house. Let's build a digital home of useful knowledge empowering thousands of projects and individuals.

The estimation resulted in a total project-cost of about 230.000 Euro per year.

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Let's get started Project GEN-db

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