John McKnight's THe Careless Society, Community and it's Counterfit
Almost 20 years ago I read McKnight and Block's book on neighborhoods. I adopted and adapted their seven neighborhood functions. * Wellbeing of Children * Safety * Food * Land & Environment * Health * Care * Enterprising Local Economy
My guess is that we will need a reliable (consistent) set of social attractors at each geopolitical scale to take care of an essential set of Essential Needs and Critical Basic Needs actually, functions. Each of these attractors will need to communicate with the other attractors at their level (system in focus) and with their type of attractor at the level above (metasystem) and below (subsystems). The question for FedWiki designers is what communication tools fit these needs. It is obviously peer-to-peer but it is also level-to-level and group-to-group. Once we can graph-visualize these relationships so the recurrent patterns become the experience of every day behavior we will have enabled true self organizing and autopoiesis as well as regeneration (after insults).
This year I met Mike McDonald and he shared 26 Mission Critical Functions that are assessed when responding to global humanitarian disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and epidemics.
Since my focus is the day-to-day live of neighborhoods; therefore, I am calling these Critical Basic Needs which all have neighborhood implications. There are a evolving set of sketches or graphs to explore the systemic connections.
I think of them as the pallet of choices that neighborhoods can create their capabilities from. I have rather arbitrarily chunked the list under five categories: Energy, Health, Safety, Social, and Infrastructure. Energy and Health are smaller categories than Safety, Social, and Infrastructure. Again the categories are porous and overlapping but are my attempt to avoid the overwhelm that a long list creates for me.
ENERGY Energy -- Temperature Management Energy -- Electricity and Gas Applications Energy -- Net Zero Energy, Renewables, Microgrid Infrastructure SAFETY Community Security Environmental Health and Safety Climate Threat Mitigation and Transformation Emergency Management Shelter in Place and Evacuation Systems SOCIAL Community Commons Areas Viable Value Systems (Local Business Development and Jobs) Management and Government Social Services Education System HEALTH Hygiene and Prevention Psychosocial Resilience Health Services INFRASTRUCTURE Clean Water Food Security Safe Housing Communication Systems Data & Information Management Transportation Agricultural Production Supply Chains Sewer Systems (human waste) Solid Waste Management (garbage)