1	GivingSpace Creating an Information Space for Generosity Tom Munnecke tom@givingspace.org Jan Hauser Human Generosity Project Banff, Canada August 27, 2001
2	The GivingSpace Mission To provide a self-organizing global infrastructure which allows the creation, discovery, commitment, and fulfillment of meaningful giving opportunities within a trusted environment.
3	The Creation of a Space “What was often difficult for people to understand about the web was that there was nothing else beyond URLs, HTTP, and HTML. There was no central computer “controlling” the web, no single network on which these protocols worked, not even an organization anywhere that “ran” the Web. The web was not a physical “thing” that existed in a certain “place.” It was a “space” in which information could exist.”* *Berners-Lee, Tim, Weaving the Web, The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, Harper San Francisco, 1999, p. 36 and 209
4	Evolution of the Web
5	What Berners-Lee didn’t do: Assign web site numbers by category: (100-199 Physics, 200-299 Chemistry, etc.) Assemble panels of experts to organize the web Create a master web administrator to control the web Define “pigeonholes” to categorize the right way to structure information Try to solve all problems with the initial conditions Control the evolution of the web Succumb to proprietary forces and closed systems
6	Can we create a space within which philanthropy can exist? What are the simplest initial conditions? What drives its evolution? What are the constraints? These answers define GivingSpace
7	Evolution of GivingSpace
8	What is unique about GivingSpace? Based on meaningful giving opportunities Self-organizing trust mechanism Open system Scalable to global proportions Driven by transformational energy Generative space-the more people use it, the bigger it becomes. Starts with simple initial conditions Supports Trustraising
9	Critical Tasks Trust Lots of interaction Limits of trust will limit growth Encourage “trustraising” Feedback Lots of it Expected part of interaction Appropriate transparency Allows self organization, “Order for free”
10	Current Projects Forum to discuss and refine the concept Forum at www.givingspace.org Defining Trust Mechanism Jan Hauser jan@janhauser.org Defining a Philanthropic Markup Language Mik Litz michael.litz@oneworld.net Forming the Organization Tom Munnecke Tom@munnecke.com
11	GivingSpace Advisory Board
12	GivingSpace Technical Advisory Board
13	Current Assumptions of the Philanthropy Industry There is a finite pool of donor resources Fundraising is key determinant of success Funds and resources flow one way from “rich” to “poor” Organizations take a slice of the donation as payment to support operations
14	Focus of IT in Philanthropy Today
15	Focus of GivingSpace is Program Activities
16	The Transactional Fallacy
17
18	How organizational size affects what charities receive from solicitors
19	System is “tipping” Smaller organizations serving poorer recipients get 25% the donation efficiency of larger organization serving richer recipients “Survival of the fittest” favors larger organizations serving richer recipients Is this what charity is all about?
20	Sample Donation through Commercial Solicitor Donor – Fundraiser – Provider Pattern
21	Sample Donation through “trustee” model Donor –– Trustee Pattern
22	Scale of Giving
23	Trustraising and scale of giving More transformational feedback Less risk More scalable – everyone in the world could give a smile tomorrow at zero cost Allows trust amplification to higher levels of giving Less corruptible Mailing shoes in two different boxes to Kenya will make it through the postal service. One box will be lost in transit. More accessible to poorer people and smaller organizations