Why is it important?

If we only focus on creating solutions, sometimes together, no one is focussing on how we get better at solving problems together, always

What does success look like?

A network of Systems Innovators is formed who bring the community together in various constructive ways which lead to tangible outcomes

Key Metrics to measure

Increased sense of community, more collaboration and idea sharing outside of Ideascale.

Continued engagement and collaboration among the cohort members

Challenge brief

This is an experimental challenge.

The goal is to find new ways to support active participants in the ecosystem.

By proposing in this challenge you sign up to join a cohort of System Innovators who will collaborate during a period of 6 months, receiving a fixed reward per month.

Why is this important?

Catalyst is an experiment to unlock the maximum potential of human collaboration.

One of the current mission of the challenges is to:

• Prepare a group of people willing and able to make contributions to the ecosystem.

There are many active contributors who are currently struggling to get funding. The current proposal system works well for ideas, start-ups and projects but is less suited to fund facilitators, connectors, documenters, mentors, researchers and other community service oriented activities. For this reason we need to experiment with alternative forms of challenges.

The Format:

Each proposer signs up for the same commitment:

6 months, minimum of 8 hours community service activities per week.

Each proposer will be rewarded 2000$ per month (12000 total)

Reasoning:

If the budget per proposer is fixed this ensures that a total of 25 System Innovators will be funded in this challenge. This also removes any competition between proposers in price. Furthermore, by limiting the parameters, comparing between proposals and results is more straightforward. The commitment is not full-time to make this a gradual transition, and as most candidates have ongoing commitments in Catalyst.

Who are System Innovators?

A system innovator is someone who:

• Seeks to coordinate and connect
• works across boundaries
• Looks for emergence
• Embraces complexity
• Thinks holistically
• Innovates

The cohort should collaborate among each other and are encouraged to form loose groups. A common discord server will be set up by the challenge team and used as a way to stay connected. The work being done should be shared publicly and transparently.

How to propose:

Must be a single proposer, no co-proposers.

Must ask for 12.000$ and agree to the time commitment

Must commit to work open and transparently

The proposal should focus on

• motivation
• previous engagement in Catalyst
• connections with other proposers
• area of focus
• examples of activities

Proposers are encouraged to reference other proposers to show intent to collaborate.

Proposers are expected to be engaged in Catalyst in other ways and roles.

Proposals that do not fit these requirements should get a rating of 1.