how much can a village do with its own resources
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Vuollerim by the Arctic Circle - a practical example of crowdsourcing and social village capital
Eva-Lena Skalstad and Audun Otterbech Lapland Vuollerim Welcomes You
Twitter:@laplandvlmFB: Lapland [email protected]
Some numbers
City of Brussels and Brussels Capital Region
5500 - 7025 persons/km2
Jokkmokk Municipality0,25 persons/km2
800 Inhabitants60 Companies40 NGOs 8 Village owned
companies
Examples● Vuollerims Economic Association ● VIVA - Visioner In Vuollerim Area● Hotel Vuollerim Gästgiveriet● Lapland Vuollerim Welcomes You● Artisan Foodhouse● The Village Team● Arctic Circle Products● Vuollerim’s Charter School● New Thinking - a Youth Project● Dare to be yourself - a Musical● The World’s Northernmost Go-Kart Track● Guinness World Record in Ice Lanterns
Crowdsourcing Vuollerim
Some examples on broad and open community-based initiatives
Common Good Development
The crowd based businesses are reinvesting their profits into further growth of the companies
and into the local economy
Lapland Vuollerim Welcomes You
● From a grassroot initiative to a best practice in sustainable eco-tourism throughout the world
● From 0-50 activities possible to book
Arctic Circle ProductsA new economic association to save the last full time farm in the area.
● To save the nearly extinct Swedish Mountain Cattle
● To save open landscape
● To develop local artisan food products
The Artisan Food House
Delikatesser från Vuollerim
To Think New - a Youth Projecthttp://www.nytank.se/english/
The Village TeamTeamwork as a business model for the development of new local passion driven business ideas.
● Co-working spaces● Local music production● Vehicle storage● Conference hall● Mentoring
The Village of Thousands Ice LanternsGuinness World Record
Our experiences
Challenges
● Centralizing
● Economical resources
● Old mindsets
● Dealing with anonymous slander and “sabotage” from a few
● Understanding the new economy possibilities,
going from “analog to digital”
Keys● Trust
● Actions for common good
● Everyone is important
● We are all change agents
● Equality - no hierarchies
● Judgements will mess it up
Crowdsourcing – från Vuollerim till världen och tillbaka
“When you put your ego aside and work for a common purpose, then it is possible to achieve just about anything.“
Epi Ludvik Nekaj, CSW
CSW Arctic Circle 2015
Welcome to
CSW Arctic Circle
March 15-17
2017