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Governance Model
Ontocracy with Sociocratic Roots
The Greek etymological root of Sociocracy comes from Socio - Society (social group) and Cracia - Power, i.e. the power of a social group. To this concept we add Democracy, where Demo means People, i.e. Power of the People.
The etymological root of Ontocracy comes from Onto - Being and Cracia - Power, i.e. Power of Being.
Rather than just a Sociaocracy, which is defined as a social system that establishes itself within other social systems and sometimes against those other systems (although it doesn't have to be in opposition to anything, in the same way as we are not), and a Democracy that defines the Power of the People as opposed to the Power of the Elite, which in itself presupposes separate spheres of power ((even though the democratic proposal of everyone having the right to vote is the model we have chosen), Ontocracy goes further and includes all aspects of the individual, from the physical to the emotional, mental and spiritual, including their balance, harmony and health, and is not based on a political ideal per se, but on an integral evolutionary principle guided by intrinsic wisdom.
It is a practical system in which social needs can be resolved through actions that are consistent with the common welfare of each and every individual. Ontocracy demands direct responsibility from each individual within society - this is where the big difference lies as well as its great richness. Without this responsibility of each individual for themselves, for their own balance, for their own choices, any structure will be weak, since its foundations (each and every one of the individuals who make it up) will be fragile.
This is why with T'Inspirar, we intend to form a new governance model based on Ontocracy, with Sociocratic roots and a Democratic nature.
We believe that the stability of each individual is also based, in turn, on the stability of the whole. There is not one or the other, but all of this together. We trust that decisions voted on by the majority can best serve this whole.
Ontocracy allows the ethical principles of honesty, transparency and trust to be put into practice through each person's responsible choice, assuming a commitment to respect themselves and everyone else, in all spheres of living and social interaction.
Economic Model
Social and Solidary Economy
"The Solidarity Economy aims to "create sustainable economic activities, managed on the basis of co-operation between their workers, from a perspective of local development and the construction of other emancipatory and equitable social relations. It therefore has a more multidimensional vision (than the social economy on its own), which goes beyond the economic, and strongly integrates education, culture, political action for social transformation. (...)"
The Solidarity Economy is based on a few fundamental points:
"valuing work, through the implementation of cooperative, democratic and creative working relationships, based on self-management within the enterprises; the promotion of individual and group autonomy, in the context of the community to which one belongs, based on critical thinking and co-responsibility; the vision beyond the group, i.e. the development of communities at various levels, starting at the local level; productive initiative as a response to the needs of people and communities and not as a means of generating profit, regardless of what is produced, for whom and in what way."
The creation of "collaborative networks of solidarity which, by linking production to transformation, distribution and consumption, would create production chains based on solidarity and on meeting the real needs of all and not just a few" is therefore proposed.
Extract from an article by CIDAC (Centro de Intervenção para o Desenvolvimento) - Development Intervention Centre
The marriage of these two economic models gives rise to the Social and Solidarity Economy, which is non-profit but whose surpluses are used in favour of the common social purpose of the Cooperative as a whole and as decided by its members together.
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