Systems do change 020426

deKoder. An AI driven website, app and research lab. With one of the largest databases on Indian elections. Content available in English & 14 Indian languages. Subscribers can use its content for their own research and analysis. It is planning several social campaigns on the environment, wildlife, the girl child, health, and other important future issues. Should we partner with such groups? Should we add one more in the NF domain? NFFS domain. N life, livelihoods domain.

Shouldn’t we have several units, circles, and teams, for People? Appreciating people’s pulse, perceptions, processes, institutions, and so on? Serving. Groups, Federations, and Collectives. Support Organizations, enterprises, and individuals. NGOs, CSOs, Development organizations, Government Organizations, Projects, Programmes, and Missions. Support individuals, volunteers, resource persons, and experts. Governments, Donors, Markets. Stakeholders. Stakeholder engagement. 

How do we organize ourselves? 10-20 coworking leads. Each with their own anchor circle of members. These members can participate in other circles, on a give and take basis. Are we offering a platform, a forum to cowork, coexist, and colive? What will be these circles, leads? How will a circle come into being? How will a lead come on board, and what will she bring to the board? What will be the stakes, investments, works, people, and results? Can we get various units and partners to work hand-in-hand with this? Livelihoods support organizations-enterprises; Kshetras – field stations; Sakthis – time giving volunteers; Collectives of Resource Teams, Groups, Professionals; Networks, Channels, Gurukulams, Consulting units et al. Can we get all our coexisters join in?

How do we restructure, reorganize HR? 2-way, 3-way matrix – geographic, multi-thematic? Field versus Field management versus Central leadership? How can we have operational field spearheads; pilots, support analytics, and linkages; research, education and learning; deep-tech; systems change et al, all in one room, envelope, portfolio? Or how do we organize so that synergies are not lost?

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Any system, social, political, or economic – wants to sustain itself. By ‘natural’ habits, practices, culture, and some norms. These can change with time, needs, and circumstances. Systems may not be perfect, but persist as long as they work; benefiting some, harming some, over time. Despite inequalities, making the status quo system change becomes difficult. At some point, ‘this system doesn’t work for us’ feeling grows. Balance between change towards reducing growing inequities, increasing fairness and justice, and stability for peace is tug-of-war, never easy. It is necessary for survival, systems’ survival. Can we be there in efforts for these necessary systems changes for the N-world? Changing arrows, capitals, contexts, and continuums, in general, and for the poor-vulnerable-marginalized in particular. Can we develop N-portfolio 2026 upwards? Can every one of us put our two cents in this portfolio?

Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Moving systems wheels within wheels. In N? tantrayoga for 7L.

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