Stay Informed!

By Sean Luechtefeld on 08/25/2010 @ 05:29 PM

Tags: Innovation, Innovators, Innovation Marketplace

The Innovation Marketplace, hosted by innovation@cfed and sponsored by the Levi Strauss Foundation, brings together leaders at the cutting edge of social innovations that expand economic opportunity for all Americans in a virtual and in-person interactive venue.

To stimulate discussion before the in-person installment of the Innovation Marketplace, innovators will pose their burning questions - questions about challenges facing their ideas - in order to solicit feedback from the public. The Innovation Marketplace is designed to discuss these challenges, and sharing the questions before the Assets Learning Conference will help prolong that conversation in hopes of making it as robust as possible.

innovation@cfed extends a special thanks to Kyril Calsoyas for being the first to send in his questions. They’re posted below, and feedback is encouraged via the comments section at the foot of this post.

1. How can cooperatively operated or owned farming equipment assets be best managed to meet the needs of Native American farmers and insure their continued access to these valuable tools?
2. For indigenous societies, where common ownership or shared assets are the norm, is it possible or desirable to instill a new ethic of individual asset building while considering their basic cultural imperatives?
3. Given the extreme poverty existing in Native American populations in the US today, how is it possible to overcome their inclination and need to immediately consume income or assets for survival purposes?
4. What are some of the state-of-the-art models of communal ownership and management of building and equipment assets used among extremely low income societies?

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