Ubuntu - One Small Town Ecosystem

[IMPACT]

One Small Town legal company, UBUNTU Planet NPC, launched 6 major projects, designed to work together and strengthen the Contributionism vision :

• One Small Token Cardano native

• Stake Pools on Cardano

• NFT Marketplace

• Time-Equity Wallet

• Smart Contracts

• Smart Card

One Small Token

Our One Small Token, that we called the ‘’Mite’’, is a cryptocurrency token with the first aim to get funds for opening our stake pools and secure sustainable income to the towns and businesses One Small Town supports. We will start with one stake pool per town that signed on to the One Small Town implementation. The One Small Town and the Mite ideas have been around for well over fifteen years. We believe the Cardano technology will successfully manifest our long held vision and combine decentralized finance with the real economy.

(The Widow's Mite is a parable of Jesus Christ that a poor widow's tiny gift to the temple meant more than all the major gifts of wealthy donors as it represented her belief and hope in the temple at great personal cost to herself. The Mite token manifests the delegate's faith and hope in One Small Town. One Small Town honours and respects the gift and ensures it will be used to build a strong foundation of the town. Mite also means power. So a small but powerful donation given freely and in love by even the most precarious show their faith in OST and that they will be well served by the community. The Mite was first conceived as digital currency for communities back in March 2009 when John Burns researched "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" and saw the protocol as essential to trade in small towns. Original March 2009 Mite Article )

Stake Pools

As we grow, we will open a stake pool for each town and for each of the 50 or so active businesses in each small town that desires one. By delegating ADA to the OST Stake Pools investors support a designated One Small Town. Training on the use of the blockchain tools and the stake pool will be delivered for free for each delegator.

Three types of persons or institutions are foreseen to participate in the purchase of our token:

PATRON: Supporter of the One Small Town plan and accomplishment of Contributionism in the world. These are outright gifts to One Small Town with the satisfaction to be part of the creation of a new world and no requirement for return on or of their donation.

INVESTOR: Holder of the One Small token, ideally believe in the One Small Town plan on a conscious level. Will be able to purchase a NFT that represents a share in the One Small Town businesses and will earn dividends while holding it.

TRADER: Volatility players, traders are more short term oriented seeking gains on their holdings of the Mite token and therefore less desired to participate in our project.

NFT Marketplace

Investors will be able to purchase NFT with the ‘’Mite’’ through a dedicated marketplace, the Regenico portal, where each collection represents a town and each NFT shares in the business profit of the said town. Holding NFT enables the investor to receive dividend from the business benefits.

The One Small Town marketplace web portal graphically shows planet Earth, which rotates to highlight each OST town/collection, with a zoom to the storefront. Videos and details of the provenance of the art (of the NFT) and the community business the NFT purchase will support. This is a vital element of the NFTs as they are virtual but truly fund and support real towns and the vital businesses and thousands of townspeople. As we are open to collaboration, if any existing marketplace can satisfy our vision, we can simply exchange our NFT there. Please contact us to make us aware.

Time-Equity Wallet

A wallet will be developed to allow investors to stake their ‘’Mite’’ to earn interest rewards, but also for registered members to accumulate their volunteer hours in the form of a "Fellowship" token. OST citizens will contribute three hours per week and the "Fellowship" token represents that commitment. The more TIME a volunteer gives, the more he or she has EQUITY in return, to exchange for the supplies and services the town or network provides. As the town will have about 50 active businesses and be trading with multiple other OST members we anticipate the majority of transactions can occur on the Cardano ecosystem using both Mites and Fellowship Tokens. This will ensure liquidity and interoperability of the digital financial marketplace.

Smart contract

In the One Small Town plan, external investors agree to an exit strategy to be certain that at the end, the people of the town own 100% of all the businesses. Programmed contracts can automatically sell the investors NFT back to the town once they have completed the investment contract agreement. Shares will be redistributed to One Small Town businesses. This will provide transparency of all One Small Town business contracts.

Smart card

A smartcard will store all the members necessary information such as skills and abilities, volunteer hours, business share etc… Connected to the blockchain, it can communicate with the wallet, and anyone could instantly prove his/her identity as a contributing member. Even move to a different town and be recognized as a One Small Town member and can easily find meaningful work, engagement, accommodations and support across the global One Small Town network.

Ubuntu Planet NPC Global Office

The objective of the Global Office is to provide solid foundations for the One Small Town world-wide ecosystem. The One Small Town/Ubuntu Global Office was formed and will operate in a similar manner to a group holding company (Holdco). Currently, there are nineteen Ambassadors and approximately twenty professionals contributing their expertise to the One Small Tow Global Office.

The One Small Town Global Office implementation is a phased approach, with Phase 1 already completed as follows:

Organization design

Recruitment of key roles

Project Planning and Implementation documents

Implementing technology – project management, business planning, communications

Redesign of One Small Town Website and Social Media platforms

Recruiting ambassadors, business plan writers, subject matter experts, project managers, and legal/accounting

Phase 2 is to establish the Global Office as a profit centre. Potential revenue for each One Small Town sign-up:

Annual management fees

Professional services fees – accounting, legal, operational, human resource management

Sales and marketing services, as well as commodity trading services

Implementation charge via cost recovery

Marketing

One Small Town Website (www.onesmalltown.org)

A dedicated One Small Town website has been launched to provide clarity and additional functionality to assist both individuals and businesses to register interest, volunteer, join as patrons and learn from the training videos available. There is also a shop with branded Ubuntu goods to purchase. The website is closely linked with new social media pages designed to drive traffic to the website.

Social Media Campaign

The new social media pages were recently launched to assist with communications, marketing, increasing both awareness and web traffic. Michael Tellinger is regularly interviewed by a variety of podcasters. One in particular, is a great supporter of One Small Town, and has an audience of over 18 million.

As with any community decentralized venture there are many challenges that we will face. Each town will face the same economic risks that all open markets face. The initial Cardano One Small Token Stake Pool will need to attract delegators amongst an already crowded market. The barrier to entry to operate the Stake Pool profitably requires sufficient size to benefit and receive a competitive yield of new tokens to attract delegators. The town governance of Town Elders and OST contributors will need a transparent model so that funds paid into the town will be used for the maximum benefit of the town. The competition amongst the various businesses for the funds will be open and fair using governance models built into the ecosystem as well as legacy based methods of equity distribution unique to each town. There will be a knowledge and communication gap between the crypto aware stake pool delegators and the local townspeople. The communication of a unified set of goals and milestones that all stakeholders will respect and engage in will be essential.

The development of local skilled staff who can run a local stake pool. It will be paramount for the OST model that each town function as independently as possible. This transition from running the stake pool and other aspects of the ecosystem from a centralized location to the town level will face hurdles. The local governance model will integrate with Cardano's governance utilities built into its ecosystem. The need for the real community to integrate with the Cardano digital platform will be measured in terms of feedback from all stakeholders as to the operability and qualitative and quantitative elements of how well the technology integrates with regular town life. Also, the initial towns we will introduce One Small Token's ecosystem to will need secure power and uninterrupted secure high speed internet to ensure smooth transactional experiences. This may be a natural collaboration with other Cardano partners like World Mobile. The human ergonomics and financial numeracy skills to operate using smart phones and terminals to do business, buy and sell goods and services, track time banking, secure personal identities, skill levels and ideal work interests etc. will require ongoing training and skill development with feedback loops to improve and enhance delivery of services and build stronger more independent communities.

[FEASIBILITY]

Q1: One Small Town token created

Q1: One Small Town website

Q1: Phase 1 Global Office

Q1: One Small Town implementation plan

Q1: Private sale of tokens

Q2: One Small Town stake pool

Q2: I.C.O.

Q3: Phase 2 Global Office

Q3: NFT Marketplace

Q3: Time-Equity wallet

Q3: Smart contracts

Q3: Smart cards

Q4: NFT collections available for investors

Q4: DAO

Q4: DeFi

Q4: People bank

An estimate by contacted developers give 40 weeks of work are needed to built the 6 project

Development team to choose (We are open to collaboration, please be in contact with us)

1 Frontend developer : 40 USD/h 40h 40 week = 64 000$

2 Smart contract developer: 70 USD/h X2 40h 40 week = 224 000$

1 Integration & Auditing developer: 50 USD/h 40h 40 week = 80 000$

1 Designer: 30 USD/h 20h 40 week = 24 000$

Total : 392 000$

BUT, more than money, what One Small Town is looking for is partnership, collaboration, contribution of the community to make our shared vision a success. We hope to find the perfect developers for our projet in the Cardano community, and we may have already, good contacts have been made.

As we fully intent to be present again fund 9 and 10 of Catalyst, we can always ask again for more fund later this year. For this proposal, we aiming at 100 000$ to allow us to launch few stake pools, get ready for the ICO of our token, start the development of the tools…

Are you a developer interested by this project ? Contact Victor on Telegram @Victor3112

Michael Tellinger - Co-founder - CEO

Researcher - Scientist - Author - Activist - Humanitarian

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-tellinger-25565a106/

Youtube :

John A. Burns – Co-founder – COO, treasurer Financial Planner, Social Capitalist, early digital currency pioneer Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnaburns/

The Mite March 2009 https://mbappp.blogspot.com/2009/03/international-remittance.html

Victor Lardé - Co-founder - CIO, project manager

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Educator

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorcryptocoaching/

Telegram: @Victor3112

James Burns – CTO – Developer in chief, stake pool operator

Research Scientist

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/james-d-burns

Owen Tobias – Legal Advisor

Lawyer

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/owen-tobias-55780a91

Giulia Buttery – Human Resource Officer

Operations Officer

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/giuliabuttery

Fayez Moukarim - Media Director - Implementation Officer

Entrepreneur

Email: lebanon@onesmalltown.org

Jason McGinn – Digital Marketing Manager

Director of Operations at 4infinity Marketing

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/jasonmcginn1980

[AUDITABILITY]

The fundamental goal of One Small Town is to bring independence, peace and sustainable abundance to the towns that have committed themselves to the One Small Town model by making the town a beacon for sound business and investment opportunities.

It is essential that One Small Town takes steps to ensure that research and clinical work is properly documented and accessible to stakeholders. Each One Small Town must have their mayor agree in writing to support the initiative. The town must also have a council of elders to lead the town into this project. The size of the town and the variety of existing and potential businesses and business opportunities must also comfortable meet the One Small Town standards. The first One Small Town was selected as it scored high on all the measurements we believe are indicative of future success.

The very first measure that has been taken is that a One Small Town will not be officially launched until there are 40 to 50 viable active businesses set up using the One Small Town model. An international business planning team has already been engaged over the past year to work with the townspeople of the first One Small Town in reviewing each of the businesses for their viability and proper set up to run successfully. If the town is unable to deliver businesses across multiple areas with well laid out business plans and budgets then One Small Town will not launch in that town.

The partnership with Cardano is undertaken to enhance the town's ability to attract external investors and build an ecosystem that enables the town, its population and its businesses to thrive. There will be transparent reporting of all the various elements of each business to the stakeholders who can help the business succeed. A dynamic OST app is near completion that will be able to track the weekly commitments of each town person, the businesses they are working for, their skill set, the token balances etc.

The stake pool progress will be measured by how effective the marketing among the existing One Small Town social media members and other pools of prospective investors is able to onboard delegates. The use of YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, Reddit, Telegram, Webinars to promote One Small Town as a true way to build wealth amongst townspeople will engage standard tools for measuring success.

The real economic benefits of having thousands of cooperative business owners in One Small Towns generating higher monthly income and standards of living than before the project is a key measurement.

Unite the people in a simple vision and objective that measures the towns health both economically and socially using readily available tools set out by the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals and the Doughnut Economics Action Lab. The key success will be that each One Small Town's businesses will be Regenerative and and not Extractive. This means that 2/3rds of each business will always be owned by the townspeople and their share will grow to 100% as the businesses grow and thrive. A town where every member is enjoying a high standard of economic, emotional, social and physical wellness as measured by external respected tools. This success can be shown by the following results.

Make our town as Investor friendly as possible

Where possible, provide our town with our own supply of electricity, which will support all our activities and liberate the town from reliance on the electricity grid.

Rejuvenate our town with diverse industry and innovation that will provide work for everyone – not just the chosen few.

Support our inventors and scientists to create new technologies on every level which will include an alternative energy supply that is eco-friendly and provides electricity at no cost to the community.

Support our farmers to grow an abundance of organic food and banish GMO companies that are destroying our seeds and food security.

Support our healers to develop new methods and technologies that truly heal people, and provide cures for most diseases, which many of us know is possible.

Ensure the traditional healing plants do not become extinct.

Support our teachers to develop an alternative education system that teaches our children real skills for life and opens their eyes to infinite possibilities.

Support our Master Craftsmen to share their knowledge and skills with those who wish to learn.

Fund 7 we had 5 proposals, helped a lot to understand Catalyst process better, meeting with the community, and creating collaboration.

Also helped shaped our blockchain need better.

https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Contributionism-worldwide/383137-48088?submitted=1

https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Close-to-Free-energy-SPO-by-OST/384293-48088?submitted=1

https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/New-wallet-for-all-OST-participant/384337-48088?submitted=1

https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Open-source-scalable-OST-ecosystem/384458-48088

https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Ubuntu-Contributionism/384476-48088?submitted=1

PLEASE READ OUR WHITE PAPER FOR MORE IN DETAILS VIEW OF THE PROJECT.

SDG Rating

SDG goals:

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

SDG subgoals:

1.b Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions

2.5 By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development

5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all

7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix

8.1 Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries

8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

9.1 Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all