OpenCityTechnology's aim is to combine multiple revolutionary ideas that have been put into practice by different organizations.
The uniqueness of OCT Initiative is that it combines different slogans that at first sight are incompatible:
For instance Ashoka promotes Social motivation, our liberal markets promote economic motivation and Capital Certainty promotes both combined.
Open City Technology on the other hand promotes all of them at the same time, not as axioms applicable to all participating technologies, but as potential strategies from which we must select the best option individually for each technology and project.
The different original initiatives have proven that these strategies and axioms work extremely well under certain conditions. We must determine the limits to these conditions and select the best alternative in order to maximise the social impact not only for each technology, but also for the combination of all technologies, taking into account the synergies
Bottom line (economic profitability), Double Bottom-Line (economic and social impact) & Multiple-Bottom line (Economic and social impact + multiple dimensions of happiness, culture, longterm and short term factors,...) analysis also seem incompatible at first glance.
We need to understand that we can follow a triple bottom line analysis globally, and maximise the results by applying different Bottom-line analysis to different individual technologies, projects and initiatives.
Now let us explicit some of our sources of Inspiration:
OpenCityFoundation
Knowledge Sharing to Bridge the Digital Divide
Importance of Support from the top
Capital Certainty:
"Because Profitable investment can also be social,
Because Social Investment can also be profitable"
Social Profitable Investment with the triple bottom-line analysis
Ashoka:
"Social entrepreneurs" as motivated as for-profit entrepreneurs
"Innovators for the public" & "Ideas that can change the world"
TED
"Ideas worth Spreading"
Networking, Idea Selection based on potential impact to the World
One Laptop per Child
Example of Technology that has the potential to improve the world
Concept that shapes global markets
Developing countries as a profitable market objective