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Curtis Faith is best known as a member of the elite Chicago trading group, the Turtles. The group started as a bet between its founders: Were traders born or raised? In his early 20s, Curtis earned more money than makes good sense as a Turtle and he wrote a bestselling book, Way of the Turtle, detailing these adventures. He retired from trading at 27. Curtis has been a successful and very unsuccessful tech entrepreneur. He founded several software and tech startups. Curtis sometimes serves as a part-time CTO and advisor to startups and has consulted to the marketing and development departments of many Silicon Valley startups. Curtis has spent the last five years in field research for a book on the economic underpinnings of poverty and other seemingly intractable social problems.
Mark Frazier is cofounder and president of Openworld, a nonprofit volunteer network specializing in innovative ways to remove barriers to entrepreneurship. He has worked in 50+ countries over the past three decades on policy reforms and free economic zones. Mark’s current focus is on strategies for self-help groups to become financially sustainable through land grants, and on virtual games to help awaken dormant property values. In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, he is active in nonprofit groups working to improve the local business climate and expand access to skills via micro-scholarships. Earlier in his career, he was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, the springboard for Reason Foundation’s privatization practice. Mark Frazier is a graduate of Harvard University and former Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute.
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Flemming Funch made a living as a freelance programmer for many years. He also had a career as a counselor and trained in various alternative therapies. He wrote a couple of books about his techniques for a somewhat specialized audience. In the mid-1990s, he created an early social network for visionaries, called the New Civilization Network, both acting as facilitator and as sole programmer. He learned a lot about what worked and what didn't work for online communities. He has a passion for creating better tools for collaborative environments that actually serve the intended outcomes. Fleming is good at making complex principles and ideas simple to understand. He writes and speaks well - preferably about certain philosophical and/or future oriented themes. He would like to help find keys to collective intelligence and to grow a better global brain. He is currently passionate about his maker experience with the aquaponic greenhouse in his garden and about west coast swing dancing.
Joel Getzendanner spent the last 25 years working on the question of how to organize large scale, social and institutional change. About half of that time, he worked in philanthropy, managing a $20 million grant portfolio at the Joyce Foundation and $300 million endowment and social investment portfolio at the F.B. Heron Foundation. The balance of his time has involved working with social entrepreneurs -- as varied as the World Bank, a hydrogen car manufacturer, an international mother-to-mother support group, and a software start-up -- developing and implement new strategies and organizational concepts that take on a networked and distributed form, and embody a strong social purpose and set of principles. Joel was a frequent visitor to the Santa Fe Institute in the early 1990's, and was a founding board member of the Chaordic Alliance, the Identity Commons and the Fourth Sector Network. He's also a bit of a karaoke junkie…

Mark is a specialist in concentrated policy reforms and grassroots-up development strategies. He advises entrepreneurial ventures on equity-sharing partnerships for education and neighborhood self-help.
Over the past 30 years, Mark has worked in more than 50 countries on market-based reforms and free economic zone development. His focus has been on pre-investment studies and on business climate reforms and streamlined processes to remove barriers to investment and entrepreneurship. Among the projects he has assisted are Zonamerica (http://Zonamerica.com) in Uruguay, the Montego Bay Free Zone in Jamaica, and dozens of free zones and business and technology parks in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. His clients have included the World Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Israel Export Development Corporation, the German Marshall Fund, and NTT of Japan. He has edited or published guidebooks during this period on Enterprise Zones, Foreign-Trade Zones, and Export Processing Zones.
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Mark has worked as well on initiatives to spread skills through low-cost methods. He designed peer learning and microscholarship initiatives in economically lagging regions that have spread internet skills to more than 9000 students in Asia. He also co-designed and supervised software development for ‘just in time learning’ projects, including an eLearning authoring tool for MIT’s Center for Advanced Engineering Studies and for a U.S.-Russian venture, Openworld Learning.
Earlier in his career, Mark was principal researcher and author of studies on targeted economic revitalization strategies for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. With support from Buckminster Fuller, Arthur C. Clarke, and Freeman Dyson, he directed the Sabre Foundation's Earthport Project to establish free trade zones near the equator as satellite launch platforms for commercial and scientific ventures. Mark also was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's consulting practice on private infrastructure provision and local service delivery. His articles have appeared in Reason Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Policy Review, The Freeman, Cayman Financial Review, Cato Policy Report, and the Journal of Economic Affairs.

Mark Frazier is cofounder and president of Openworld, a nonprofit volunteer network specializing in innovative ways to remove barriers to entrepreneurship. He has worked in 50+ countries over the past three decades on policy reforms and free economic zones. Mark’s current focus is on strategies for self-help groups to become financially sustainable through land grants, and on virtual games to help awaken dormant property values. In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, he is active in nonprofit groups working to improve the local business climate and expand access to skills via micro-scholarships. Earlier in his career, he was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, the springboard for Reason Foundation’s privatization practice. Mark Frazier is a graduate of Harvard University and former Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute.
http://openworld.com http://artisanscourtyard.org
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Joel Getzendanner spent the last 25 years working on the question of how to organize large scale, social and institutional change. About half of that time, he worked in philanthropy, managing a $20 million grant portfolio at the Joyce Foundation and $300 million endowment and social investment portfolio at the F.B. Heron Foundation. The balance of his time has involved working with social entrepreneurs -- as varied as the World Bank, a hydrogen car manufacturer, an international mother-to-mother support group, and a software start-up -- developing and implement new strategies and organizational concepts that take on a networked and distributed form, and embody a strong social purpose and set of principles. Joel was a frequent visitor to the Santa Fe Institute in the early 1990's, and was a founding board member of the Chaordic Alliance, the Identity Commons and the Fourth Sector Network. He's also a bit of a karaoke junkie…
www.joelgetz.com

[E]motions work much faster than our intellect. So, when you get people angry quickly, things can spread like wildfire, in a way that they can’t on slower media.
~Clay Shirky
Nature is relationships in space.
Geometry defines relationships in space.
Art creates relationships in space.
- M. Boles and R. Newman

Abundance Economics
How do we allocate human, physical, and intellectual resources when the laws of supply and demand no longer apply? How do we foster and distribute innovation to benefit from this new frontier?
Why is this called Game B?

What we call Game B focuses on building the cultural, economic, and technological tools to change the underlying rules of this failing game.
Decentralized and peer-driven networks, open-source replicable innovation, and abundance-based economics frame and inspire our efforts. By creating new network tools that crowdsource wisdom, feedback, and innovation, we are building the tools to scale the trust, accountability, flexibility, and creativity that operate successfully in local communities to the global level.
only beginning.
People, Philosophy, and Technology Ignite Change

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Central to our approach are Sparks, Techné, and LightNet.
Sparks: catalyzing ~B ENDEAVORS

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Sparks: catalyzing ~B ENDEAVORS
By focusing on healthier approaches for industry sectors, we affect underpinnings for large parts of the economy. We have begun assisting hedge “fund of fund” managers and pacesetters creating ecommerce marketplaces. We are partnering with people running food banks, time banks, and agriculture centers. The bigger the field and the more likely it is to transform economies, the better.