We want to build Delib into a global technology business. Yet we’re not megalomaniacs. Far from it. At Delib’s heart is the notion of democracy and empowerment, and we’re keen to extend these concepts throughout Delib as an organisation. So the vision of a global technology business for us is around the following 3 models:
- empowering citizens using digital democracy apps
- empowering governments to empower citizens using digital democracy apps
- empowering engagement consultants to empower governments to empower citizens using digital democracy apps
To enable us to do this, getting our *distribution* model right is key. One thing for certain is top-down central distribution won’t work, as centrally distributed organisations are inefficient and difficult to scale. Obviously the *internet* is core to our distribution strategy – hence why we make all our apps easy to access and use from our product sites. However, one of the challenges with so much of what we do is helping educate and reassure the market. Much of what we do is pretty new and we’re always keen to keep at the cutting edge of things, which means it’s not surprising that many potential government clients need some *face time* to help explain how best to implement a project. And it’s because of this need to educate and handhold clients through the process that the internet isn’t strong enough of a distribution channel alone, and why alongside we’re keen to add an added *social distribution network* – and by social I mean *real people* (yup, that’s right REAL HUMAN BEINGS!).
So what we’re looking to do is create a network of partners and associates who are schooled (in the loosest Rousseau-ean type way!) in the *Delib Way* who can enable the distribution and application of Delib’s digital democracy apps to government clients across the world.
Possibly one of the best examples of a company that has done a truly awesome job of this type of social distribution is *Wordpress* – the blogging platform that this blog’s based on. WordPress has millions of instances of its products around the world, empowering millions of bloggers, however their central team is only relatively small – about 40 or so, mainly engineers all working to keep WordPress.org alive and providing support to those companies who’ve opted for a VIP support. How WordPress has generated such scale is handing the power over to technology mavens, who’ve spread the word and spread the WordPress technology at the same.
The genius to WordPress’ business is that they’ve successfully created a massive open organic ecosystem, that empowers bedroom developers to build their own websites quickly and easily using the WordPress CMS, and importantly add to the code base. This means that WordPress is constantly evolving and growing – powered by the community, and empowered by WordPress’ awesomely constructed ecosystem.
And this is what we want to turn Delib into – an awesome distributed global technology micro business empowering millions of citizens and 1000′s of governments across the world, powered by an awesome collective of consultants, partner businesses and partner government workers all trained in the *art of digital democracy*.
So - who’s up for it??? We’ve got a fair amount of work to go to get all the open eco and support systems in place, however we’re close. Come and say hello if you are keen to get involved – so we can get you onboard as soon as possible.
The journey starts here 
