CICOLAB.org is a mutual commitment organization for exopreneurs, who are entrepreneurs working on systems change projects, especially having to do with developing ecosystems for interoperable technology. These projects are generally peer-to-peer, commons-based, interdisciplinary, and based on collective intelligence. We are spearheading a network-wide grantwriting initiative to unify different groups in our network who are working in this space to come together to increase our funding. If you are interested in working with some of the most brilliant, visionary thinkers of our time, CICOLAB is the place for you.

This project will include:

• Co-create a database of network assets: ideas, projects, entities, frameworks, etc. using Media Wiki.
• Go through a grants database and identify potential opportunities for the network and put them in a community calendar.
• Help coordinate a federated co-writing process using FedWiki, a highly innovative software with a terrible UI

What skills we are looking for:

There are two kinds of people that would love this internship. The first is a wildly intelligent misfit nerd who has a chance to understand the various projects in this sphere and can make connections about how they all fit together. The second is a patient social butterfly who can connect with people on a personal level and help others explain difficult concepts in easy ways. Either way, you care deeply about systemic change and solving wicked problems. You must absolutely be able to work independently and to herd a bunch of cats, since what you will be attempting to do has rarely been done before, and our road map is being drawn as we go. Being able to think for yourself and take initiative is therefor a prerequisite. If you hate being told what to do, you will fit right in, but just be aware, wrangling a network of people who hate to be told what to do is not an easy task.

Objective

Succeeding at this task will not be easy or straightforward, but it will be incredibly intellectually stimulating. A lot of this work is very "meta" (meaning abstract), but also very important. If you do your job well, your efforts will lead to incredibly worthy projects getting funded and for you to take part in a truly innovative process that pushes the current boundaries of collective intelligence.

If what you are looking for is to learn how to herd a bunch of independent cats, well, I can offer you tons of mentorship. We are on the cutting edge of the collaboration and blockchain space and have oodles of connections of people doing all sorts of deeply innovative and subversive work. I am an expert at working with quirky weirdos. Here is a testimonial video, the same kind that you will receive if you work for CICOLAB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7M2LFg5xL8&feature=youtu.be.