About ArmillariaImpact x ~ Building better digital infrastructure for collective impact | A systems lab for equitable economies. ~ Armillaria works with partners and communities across the globe to more effectively address complex environmental, social, and economic challenges using contemporary innovations in technology, finance, and law. Together, we design, develop, and deploy critical digital infrastructure for addressing global goals.There is no shortage of organisations doing good, ideas for how to do it better, or money being spent to address environmental, social, and economic injustice. | SO WHY DO WE STILL STRUGGLE TO SOLVE THE GREATEST CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME? ~ Data is extracted and trapped in silos, knowledge is immobile and atrophied, capital is bound up and illiquid, and those most consistently engaged with these problems are becoming increasingly frustrated with our collective lack of progress. | OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE ~ The tools we use, the data we collect, and the solutions we discover are assets that can and should be leveraged to achieve even greater impact. What we need is a better way to collaborate, cooperate and coordinate across initiatives and organisations; we need deep, interconnected plumbing to make value flow.ArmillariaARML_e03d4ae6-0c2e-11ed-8626-dda80783ea00As systems strategists, designers and engineers, we know that addressing the unique needs of your mission and the wider ecosystem it operates in requires a multi-stakeholder approach. As partners, we work together in a generative cycle, commencing work at at any stage and carrying it forward into subsequent iterations.Armillaria TeamTools and Frameworks ~ Our toolkit incorporates a range of disciplines including management consulting, product & service design, social finance, and software engineering, resulting in a multi-disciplinary framework that uncovers opportunities to create even more value for you and the people and places you serve. > Ethnographic Research > Rapid Prototyping > Distributed Technologies > Currency Design > Community Architecture > Service Design > Financial Product Design > Crisis Management > Human-centered design > Agile Development > User Testing & Feedback > Change ManagementDr. Astrid ScholzManaging Partner, Impact Design & FinanceMadelynn MartiniereManaging PartnerCameron BurgessSenior Partner, Innovation & CommercialisationJulia SolanoPartner, Program ManagerLinzi FidelinCommunications LeadAgon CeceliaSr. Software ArchitectGeorge BuganProject ManagerArmillaria Development PartnersCo-creating an operating system for planet earth. ~ No single company can achieve this objective alone. Our founding members have been working separately and together to support and advise organisations addressing intractable problems for many years. We co-founded Armillaria as a cooperatively owned venture to better achieve our collective vision, together with other aligned individuals and organisations. | Our relationships are grounded in shared values and purpose, and are typically long-term, strategic and operational. These organisations are the latest to help define and fund our work.Zebras UniteCOBIComplex environmental, social, and economic challenges are more effectively addressed_e03d4c62-0c2e-11ed-8626-dda80783ea00To provide a better way to collaborate, cooperate and coordinate across initiatives and organisations_e03d4d0c-0c2e-11ed-8626-dda80783ea00ChangeDesign principles for systems change. ~ Our core design principles are hard won functional requirements that have been directly informed through more than fifteen years of collective engagements in building technology for impact.ThrivabilityThrivable ~ Solving humanity’s greatest challenges is the work of generations, and requires more than status quo sustainability - it requires (re)building better. Technical, financial and legal systems must align with regenerative, living systems, and be geared towards all forms of value flows.Human-CentricityHumanity-Centered ~ Focusing on what’s best for individuals does not result in better social outcomes, as history has shown. Focusing on what’s best for humanity, however, provides an opportunity to serve everyone equally, transcending cultural, organisational, and political boundaries.EquitabilityEquitable ~ It's time that we re-engineer our economic, social, and cultural systems for justice. Equitable systems rectify historic injustices, create opportunities for all, ensure that all value created is appropriately compensated, and provide stakeholders with participatory governance.CooperationCooperative ~ Commitments to "collaboration" aren't enough to solve our most immediate challenges. We need to go further, faster, together. Truly cooperative systems are designed for mutual benefit, and as such must permit us to work together outside of organisational and operational siloes.AdaptabilityAdaptive ~ Planet-sized problems are complex adaptive systems that will not be solved in a single iteration, or by “silver bullet” solutions. We must be willing and able to respond to environmental and market feedback, and rapidly adapt and adopt new information and approaches. Digital SovereigntyDistributed ~ Distributing data means distributing power; breaking the stranglehold big tech and governments have over what is done with our information. Systems must acknowledge that equity cannot be achieved without ownership and control. Digital sovereignty is an inalienable right of all humans.ModularityModular ~ The greatest challenges of the 21st century cannot be solved by heropreneurs. Solutions must be modular, incorporating inputs and outputs from multiple sources and stakeholders, depending on context and availability, ensuring the reliability of the system as a whole.RobustnessRobust ~ Much ‘tech for good’ fails in environments that lack reliable access to power, telecommunications, and modern computing equipment. Robust systems must function regardless of these constraints, and be capable of withstanding enormous stress.UbiquityUbiquitious ~ Modern tool sets are imperfect combinations of web and native applications bound together by hacks and human interventions. Systems must be consistently available, and should permit interaction with any part of the system from any other part without tool-switching.MetricsMeasureable ~ We currently value what we measure, rather than measure what we value. Systems must be designed to value outcomes over outputs, a well as all forms of value — particularly in areas lacking effective metrics — to support better sense-making, decision-making and capital flow.Global GoalsDesign, develop, and deploy critical digital infrastructure for addressing global goals_e03d4dfc-0c2e-11ed-8626-dda80783ea00Focus Areas ~ People, knowledge, and capital must be mobilised at unprecedented speed and scale if human societies are to become more humane, just, and caring, and align with the living systems that support us. As such, we focus on how digital infrastructure can be used to achieve the following objectives:RelationshipsEnable partners, stakeholders, and customers to become mutually supportive and provide lasting value to each other_e03d4ea6-0c2e-11ed-8626-dda80783ea001PartnersStakeholdersCustomersDeepening Relationships ~ Every organisation has a community of partners, stakeholders, and customers, yet forging meaningful connections between them is frequently left to chance. We work alongside those communities so that they are best able to become mutually supportive, and provide lasting value to all their participants.KnowledgeRedesign how knowledge flows in initiatives and organisations to generate the greatest value_e03d4f46-0c2e-11ed-8626-dda80783ea002Mobilising Knowledge ~ Knowledge is so much more than information or data - it is about what we do with what we know. Every organisation is a repository of knowledge trapped within legacy systems. We redesign how knowledge flows in, out, and through your initiative or organisation in order that it can generate the greatest value.AssetsUnlock the latent potential of assets and unleash them to radically enhance impact_e03d5004-0c2e-11ed-8626-dda80783ea003Leveraging Assets ~ Enormous amounts of time, money and energy go into building a portfolio of investments, a pool of grantees, or infrastructure to support them. How much more could you do with what you already have? We help unlock the latent potential of your assets and unleash them to radically enhance your impact.2022-07-25https://armillaria.io/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net