Achieving United Nations' Global Goals is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Zero hunger, tackling climate change and reducing inequality are complex problems. What is needed?
A social impact economy, rewarding those who are most active towards the Global Goals.
Crowd-based problem-solving, combining online and offline collaboration and networking.
ImpactN will build a supporting infrastructure through a community-driven and agile development process. Combining a platform with blockchain is the technological challenge we face – the other is to build a community of project co-creators: visiting an empty platform is definitely a boring experience!
Therefore, this post is about community-building. With it, we’d love to invite you to join the growing team of volunteers building ImpactN. So please, read on and have a look at the exciting things awaiting us.
In Berlin, the place where ImpactN was kicked off, already a lot of people care about the Global Goals. They are distributed over the whole city. That’s why we teamed up with makesense https://makesense.org/ and the Global Goals meet-up group to host a hold-up on the challenge:
How to build a community of Global Goals project co-creators
What’s a hold-up? A creativity workshop methodology that makesense community of active citizens has used all over the world to help more than 2,500 social entrepreneurs in solving their challenges! It's a free and open event, no specific skills or expertise needed, just your energy and craziest ideas!
And here are the results: more than a dozen people from three continents with a lot of energy came together. Their expertise covered design, sustainability, impact investment, software development, marketing, art, collaborative design and a lot more. Berlin is a great city where you can have this diversity coming together spontaneously.
Following a short introduction to the project two creativity phases were performed: a general one and an in-depth development of projects to move ImpactN forward.
Main results of the general phase where:
Simplify your message!
Explain: “Why blockchain? Why Steem?”
Use a local success story to illustrate!
Secure a follow-up and set up a transparent and fair development process!
Use a variety of participative methods!
Partner with existing communities!
State value proposal more precisely!
Keep an entrepreneurial spirit!
An open point of discussion was: “Product first?” or “Community first?” The old hen and egg problem in building platform business models. Therefore, part of the community in the room started working on platform issues and another part on community building and marketing.
Four project proposals for the next three months emerged:
Create a video to attract supporters.
Build credibility through showing expertise and using a good example/prototype.
Build an MVP and do a test in scaling it.
Form a network of SDG-activists and early-adopters.
Thanks to everybody who participated in this.
Next steps? A video project will start two days after the event – building on fun and creativity. A platform mock-up is just being set up and will go through a series of tests in the next weeks. Good projects will be contacted in January. A follow-up meeting will be held in February. And the project will be presented to the Steem-community on January 17 to span blockchain and non-blockchain world. We'll be guest in the SOS-forum, created by 
If you’d love to be part of this, please DM us: contact@impactn.global, leave a comment here or sign up on http://impactn.global/. Any question or suggestion is more than welcome as well.