oneVillage Initiative Methodology

The oneVillage Initiative is a comprehensive platform for sustainable economic development. The Multipurpose Community and Unity Center is the core of the Ecosystem and the beginning point in this revitalization. The Initiatives are designed to meet the needs of the particular region through a multi-sectoral approach that bring together local and global networks in concerted global effort by way of effectively harnessing the potential of ICT. The OVI is a comprehensive, phased process,

Phase I	Field agents do an environmental scan of the existing conditions and needs of the communities in the focus area.
Phase II	Implementation of knowledge into practice through the development of a Multipurpose Community and Unity Center.
Phase III	Development of initiatives into profitable businesses through OneVillage.biz.
Phase IV	Replication of the successful initiatives regionally, nationally and internationally through digital development networks.

Stage I: Method Of Analysis
The Center is built on six 'pillars', which are the foundation of the oneVillage Initiative Ecosystem. The six Pillars in the 'Integrated Knowledge Wheel' diagram include: education, governance, economy, ecology, wellness & healthcare, and culture & tradition. The pillars, and the concentric rings around them, describe the ecology of community revitalization. What really matters is that in disseminating this program that we give people the tools to believe in themselves.

In this vein, the Assets Based Community Development (as put forward by ABCD Institute) Approach enables the field agents to start a dialog with the community to lay the groundwork for building a network of trust so that all the stakeholders in the community development process are personally committed to support each other, as well continuing development and evolution of the physical location where they can meet and work together. The Community Knowledge Delivery System as a component of a whole systems development process can rapidly improve the methods of analysis, while also offering an effective way to explore and analyze the best solutions for a particular community. The result is that the rate of development and innovation is rapidly increased.

Through the connection portal of the CKDS the Initiative will have a field agent support network. This will include people throughout the world who have a particular of expertise that is relevant to the OVI development model as well as the needs of the community itself. CKDS team members as Field Agents will be trained to help local people organize their efforts at community development. This will include designing the ICT platform to suit specialized local needs in tracking real market prices for their products, educating their children to use the Internet, ask family members abroad for marketing support, and gathering necessary data to certify crops as organic.

Phase II Implementation of Pilot Projects
Through our evaluation of best practices we have concluded that a new compact, more self-reliant and integrated model of development is a required precondition to promote truly sustainable development. Multipurpose Community (Unity) Centers (MCCs) are the delivery and implementation vehicle for these new and highly integrated methods of analysis, management and goverance. We are now looking for initial funding to develop one or two MCCs as pilot projects to test out the OVF Initiative Methodology. We anticipate that MCCs will allow for the further refinement of best practices so that they are suitable to replication with consideration to the needs and conditions of the people where that center is located, thus addressing a key problem area of existing approaches.

Phase III: Business Development and Incubation
The final stage of the OVI process involves the development of profitable social enterprise to sustain MCCs and finance their further expansion. oneVillage.biz (OVB) will demonstrate the compelling nature of self-sustainable, social entprise oriented development models that focus on bootstrapping and local self-reliance. OVB is designed to be a for profit entity that serves several synergistic purposes. It will: function as a social enterprise incubator; promote goods and services produced by MCCs via e-commerce; seek out socially conscious investors to invest in these projects; and offer sustainble development consulting services to various institutions and groups interested in remaking themselves into more socially and ecologically conscious entities. OVB is designed to raise funds to address infrastructure needs for communities in low-income regions based on a highly networked self-sustainable economic model that weans underserved communities away from dependency economics. On the ground support and expertise will be provided in conjunction with a networked funding and investment program to utilize and maximize the potential of local resources through effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Focus areas include ICT, health, education, social enterprise training and incubation and sustainable development.

Phase IV: Development of oneVillage Global Initiatives Network
The proposed New World NGO Coalition offers a unique approach for using digital technologies to create Augmented Social Networks or Networked Improvement Communities, increasing our collective intelligence not incrementally but exponentially. Initiatives carried out on both a macro as well as micro level will focus on enable local reform by working with policymakers at the local as well as national and international levels to address challenging global issues that impede the effectiveness of local capacity building and development efforts towards a sustainable world in which the potential of every human being is realized. This is particularly relevant in terms of telecommunications reform which is seen as vital to any serious effort to overcome the digital divide since a major reason that Internet costs are so high in developing countries is because there is still governmental and or monopoly control of these industries. However another component invovles the organization of knowledge and facilitation of regulatory reforms as well as the overcoming of funding hurdles so that best practices are more rapidly implemented on the local. See Digital Development Dyanmics for more.