Allow me to pose a question to the community, if I may.
As we discussed, we will focus on bringing Karma to unbanked populations in the Philippines
per
http://karmashares.com/forums/index.php/topic,565.0.html(Indonesia is also a prime target, as another member has pointed out.)
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how do you think you can help make this happen. We don't want to be in a situation where the many are depending on the very few to make things happen. This surely can be a community effort. I don't mean the involvement of everyone in the community but I'm shooting for 2-5% actively working on something (assuming 300 members of the Karma community, including lurkers)
Being part of the Karma team does not presume activity, either. As most of the time we, the team, does what the community does (just talk without action). We need action now, not just pages and pages of text.
(This is the cold, hard reality. There is no beating around the bush.)
Anyone can come up with a plan. Hopefully, we can discover the plan together. My concern now (from my experiences with Karma) is "who will do the work to make it happen?"
I don't want to present a plan and be one of 2 people doing
actual work to make it happen. We have only to take a look at the vast quantity of un-touched tasks on the Karmashares forum (even those that are assigned to specific people) to see a little of what I am talking about. Of course, after I began to see that people didn't want to be assigned responsibilities (or let others know what they're working on), I stopped creating tasks.
Lots of us talk about what needs to be done, but about 90% of the time Karma calls for help are met with radio silence.
"Somebody else did something, now let's talk about it" = 100
"Something needs to be done" = 50
"Here's what we can do" = 25
"Yes, I can help" = 12
"I will do this particular task and here's how I will do it" = 6
"Here is what I
have done" = 2 or 3, including myself
Lack of active involvement is the fundamental issue here. We need less talk (especially about market movements and price) and more action (equates to value, especially long term price increases).
Why would anyone want to be the only person doing the work, while others wish to sit around and reap the benefits of their labour?