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Eco-munity’s Asset Mapping and Community Building Workshop

When: Today! Wednesday, July 14th 7 - 9 PM
Where: 1131 SE Oak St PDX - St. Francis church, Che Room

Hello. We at Eco-mUNITY are excited to conduct a workshop on asset mapping for TransitionPDX. We would like to provide some basic information before the workshop, and give you an opportunity to come to the workshop with some idea of what your needs and assets might be, and possibly even have your asset map and avatar filled out to some degree. Let me know if you need a blank one. I created these using the google documents drawing feature, so the template can continually be developed and changed.

Your Need and Assets Avatar

This map is designed to communicate who you are, your needs, and your assets at a glance.

In the center (red) is your avatar. Choose an image to put in the circle that represents who you are. Of course as you change, you can alter your avatar as well.

The first (green) circle of bubbles surrounding your avatar is where your needs are mapped. In this way, you can let others know how their assets might match up with your needs. You can list up to 5 needs. In each circle will be a badge that represents that need. You can draw a badge that represents your need, or find a royalty-free or creative commons picture to use. Local artists will be encouraged to develop these. Below the green bubble is a green label so you can label the need. This makes it easier to read and understand.

The next (yellow) circle of bubbles surrounding your avatar is where your assets are mapped. In this way, you can let others know how their needs might match up with your assets. You can list up to 12 assets. It is good to list a mix of skills and resources. For instance, if you can fix bikes (skill), you might also have extra bike parts to list (resources). In each circle with be a badge that represents that skill or resource. These will be developed along the way. Don’t forget to label your assets!

Below the avatar, you list your name, neighborhood, and contact information.

Your Community Asset and Needs Map

This map is designed to communicate what your community represents, and its needs and assets at a glance. In the center (purple) is the community totem. We define community as a subset of neighborhood, which is a subset of the city. Portland, OR (the birthplace of Eco-mUNITY) has 95 neighborhoods as part of a well developed system. The totem is decided on by the community, and meant to be representative of the community identity. Of course, as the community changes, the totem can alter to reflect those changes.

The first (orange) circle of bubbles around the totem is where the community needs are mapped. In this way, neighbors and other communities will know how their assets match up with your community needs. In the circle will be a badge that represents that need. These will be developed along the way. The orange rectangle is where you write the label for the need badge you created.

The next (blue) circle of bubbles around the totem is where the community assets are mapped. In this way, you can let neighbors and other communities know how their needs might match up with your community assets. Your community can list up to 12 assets. In each circle will be a badge that represents that asset or resource. These will be developed along the way. Don’t forget to label your assets!

Below the totem, you list your community contact information and organizer information.

Building your own Asset Map

Now that you have a general understanding of how this works, it’s time to create your own Asset Map. I will include a blank one as well as my Asset Map and Avatar to give you an idea of how this can work. I used royalty free icons to depict my needs and assets, but we encourage local artists to create their own. Although I used my photo in my avatar, it is not necessary to do so. When it comes to your contact information, I recommend setting up an account with google voice or some other free voicemail and call forwarding system. This way, you can make yourself available for contact only when you want to be available, and all messages are transcribed to text and saved. Here is what my Asset Map and Avatar look like:

Ok, so now you can see that I have listed 12 useful items and skills, and I have listed 5 needs. It is somewhat easy to understand and does not need a great deal of explanation. Now, imagine that a community of 100 residences was represented as a community of Richmond. Using census data, I know that Richmond averages 2.2 neighbors per house. So, if we imagine a 5% participation rate at the outset, this would include 11 people sharing as many as 132 assets and seeking as many as 55 needs. There are 50 communities this size in the Richmond Neighborhood, so that would mean 550 people sharing 6600 assets and seeking 2750 needs within just Richmond. You can quickly begin to see the potential of this type of asset mapping to help people to more easily meet their needs locally, and to create more local gift, trade, and sales opportunities neighbor to neighbor.

We invite you to share your Asset Map and Avatar with us. Further, we invite you to get involved with this project on a deeper level. This project has the potential to do so much, but it only has value if people participate. Please contact us to get more involved. Use the provided link to the contact form on our website, or email us at info@eco-munity.com.

Beginning in 2010, the Eco-mUNITY family of Robots began touring neighborhoods in Portland, OR

Super Robot is a member of the family of Eco-mUNITY kiosks touring neighborhoods in Portland, OR. Through these kiosks, citizens may interact with city and neighborhood organizations, connect with local people and community resources, or simply get exercize generating people power with a pull cord or bicycle generator! They are equipped with safety features such as security webcams, N. O. A. A. radios, and can power personal electronics with the stored people power. Invite one of the Eco-mUNITY kiosks to your neighborhood today!

This next video is played in public on the Bright Neighbor Kiosk as an introduction to the Bright Neighbor site. It highlights Bright Neighbor TV and delivers information to users about how to use the kiosk. This is Part 1 of 5. To view the entire show, go to the Eco-mUNITY Kiosk Project page, the EcoTV page, or Eco-mUNITY’s YouTube page.

Eco-mUNITY is working to Empower Community Organization at the Neighborhood Level

Thank you, thank you!Hello, we are the founders of Eco-mUNITY, an Empowering Community Organization, and we are empowering Community Organizers. I am Dwayne Beals and I play the part of a.citizen. Thank you, Thank you!

I am NOT from the future!I am Cyd Manro and I play the part of Democracy Catalyst. Oh, and I am NOT from the future.

We wonder what part you might play in your Eco-mUNITY? Right now, we are working to empower community organization! We are on the cusp of a revolutionary shift in how citizens communicate and collaborate. Resources are becoming free and readily available, and pieces of this revolution have already begun coming together.

Unfortunately, single provider, top-down models are threatening citizens’ ability to use this technology to creatively connect and collaborate. So, Eco-mUNITY is building a grass-roots mesh network and collaborative metaverse to empower community organization.

We will do this by engaging in community outreach through events and by bringing an Eco-mUNITY Kiosk to your community, helping to better connect you to your Neighborhood Association, to your local resources, and to one another. Want to know more? Contact us today!

Eco-mUNITY facilitates community education

Eco-mUNITY is developing an increasingly education-centered focus. By incorporating the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, interactive education through innovative laptops connected through a mesh network. OLPC has recently released the software for the XS, which is the school server. This provides added functionality to the OLPC laptops, also called XOs.

Eco-mUNITY is using OLPC laptops in many of their school-centered kiosks. One of the most exciting features of the OLPC laptop is the mesh networking capability. For a demonstration of a mesh network, click on the picture to the left. Mesh networking allows enhanced collaboration with easy sharing of content, and simultaneous interaction on documents, programming projects, or even real time music creation by several people at once.

By partnering with local schools and organizations, Eco-mUNITY brings educational content to community events and to be displayed on the kiosk via EcoTV3.