We can brainstorm ourselves or in groups.
Questions I have found useful to elicit variables include: - How will we know this system is working well? What will be different? - What will help this system to work well? What will help this system to flourish? What do we need to get right? - What will hinder this system working well? What could get in the way? - Who are the stakeholders? What do they want from this system? What does this system need from them to be successful?
The variables we discover this way are like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. There will still be missing pieces we will create along the way...
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# What is ReLocalize Creativity?
**Q:** How will we know this system is working well? **A:** Most products and services will be produced locally and money will circulate mostly in neighborhoods and municipalities--not remote vendors. Very few decisions will be made for you.
**Q:** What will be different? **A:** **A:** "Any neighborhood activist in the world will have access to tools, methods, peers, and mentors to assist them and their neighbors in developing their neighborhoods."
**Q:** What will help this system to work well? What will help this system to flourish? What do we need to get right? **A:** An open source, nearly free, communication, computation, and commerce platform--the future Federated Wiki.
**Q:** What will hinder this system working well? What could get in the way? **A:** Being self-satisfied and complacent. Trying to go too fast. Trying to do it alone. Trying to get rich doing it. Expecting outside help. Trying to get too big.
**Q:** Who are the **stakeholders?** **A:** Activists engaged in neighborhood level self-organizing, self-development. Neighbors.
**Q:** What do **they want** from this system? **A:** Safety, food, shelter, creativeness,...
**Q:** What does this **system need** from them to be successful? **A:** Creativity, systems understanding, work, fun...